Expert Panels

Expert forum of second Digital Childhoods event on Playing and Learning, 12-13 May 2011, Macrobert Centre, University of Stirling

Expert forum of the first Digital Childhoods event on Childhood and Parenting, 24-25 March 2011, Scottish Universities Insight Institute, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Expert Panel on Shareable Interfaces. 17.09.2010. ShareIT workshop ‘Exploring Collaboration with Shareable Interfaces’, University of Sussex.

Panel member at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference TEI 2008, Bonn, Germany 21.02.2008

'Berlin Tangible Interaction Day' 17.5.07 Panel member on Tangible Interaction Panel the during the DesignMay in Berlin, Germany

Invited Talks and other talks without paper publication

Engagement and interaction with museum installations.
International symposium "From Understanding the Present to Envisioning the Future" TU Vienna, Austria, celebrating Prof. Ina Wagner's retirement 22-23.09.2011.

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
21.06.2011 Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar, Berkeley University, California USA

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop: a comparative user study and observations of visitors using a museum touchtable.
7.02.2011. Departmental Seminar.  Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

The Chawton House Project: How Co-Designing Novel User Experiences for a Historic Manor House Led to the Idea of In-Situ Authoring Tools.
21.5.2010. User Interface Kolloquium. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.

Visitor interaction with museum installations in the Berlin Museum of Natural History
20.5.2010. invited lecture for staff at ART+COM AG, Berlin 

Designing, Creating, and Evaluating Novel Interactions - being continuously surprised by users
20.5.2010. colloquim talk at prometei Graduiertenkolleg (PhD school), Zentrum Mensch-Maschine-Systeme TU Berlin / Fraunhofer IPK 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation.
5.5.2010. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (MACS) seminar talk Heriot Watt University Edinburgh

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
15.4.2010 The Interaction Design Talk Series, University of Limerick

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - A Framework on Tangible Interaction and its Use in Form of a Brainstorming Card Game Exercise.
14.4.2010: 7pm. IxDA (Interaction Design Association) meeting, Absolute Hotel Limerick

What makes for an engaging museum installation?
18.11.2009. CID seminar. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University.

Designing Surfaces for Public Engagement. Informal discussion and talk.
23.6.2009 Surface Tension Event at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, London.

Designing, Creating, and Evaluating Novel Interactions - being continuously surprised by users.
3.6.2009, Keynote at Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Graduate Conference, University of St. Andrews

Beyond the Desktop - mobile, pervasive, tangible, embodied, embedded, multimodal.
5.5.2009 Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance Multimodal Interaction Theme Launch Event, University of Glasgow

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - The Tangible Interaction Framework Revisited
30.3.2009 Tufts CS Colloquia. Tufts University, Medford MA, USA

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation
24.02.2009. Newcastle University, UK. School of Computer Science Colloquium. 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation
20.01.2009. University of Calgary, Canada, Computer Science Departmental Seminar.

The Interweaving of the Physical and the Social - Tangible Interaction Framework Revisited
19.01.2009. University of Calgary, Canada, Interactions Lab seminar 

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop - effects of input device configuration on awareness and equity of participation.
23.10.2008. GIST talk, University of Glasgow.

Talk on the concepts and terminology around tangible interaction. Mensch & Computer Conference. 
7.09.2008. Meeting of the German working group on ‘Be-Greifbare Interaktion in Gemischten Wirklichkeiten’.

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces  and   Benutzerstudien und Evaluationsmethoden im Bereich des 'Beyond the Desktop Computing'. Ein Erfahrungsbericht anhand eigener Projekte (user studies and evaluation methods in the area of beyond the desktop computing).
21.04.2008. Dept of Informatics, University of Bremen. Workshop with talks in PhD graduate school Advances in Digital Media.

Investigating Collaboration Around the TableTop
22.11.07. Rainbow Interaction Seminar, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Verantwortung im informatischen Berufsalltag - Warum es wichtiger ist die Arbeitskulturen informatischen Handels zu reflektieren als über ethische Theorien und Whistleblowing zu reden... (on IT work and professional responsibility)
1.11.2007. Gesellschaftliche Auswirkungen der Informatik – Kolloquium. FB Informatik, TU Darmstadt

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
22.10.07. Research Colloquium Usability. Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
11.7.07. University of Limerick, Ireland, seminar talk for the Interaction Design Center

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
13.6.2007 University of Nottingham, seminar talk at Mixed Reality Lab (MRL)

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
22.05.2007 seminar Talk Lancaster University, InfoLab21

'Berlin Tangible Interaction Day'  
17.5.2007. Panel member for Panel the during the DesignMay in Berlin, Germany 

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
10.5.2007. TeleLearning Research Group (TLRG) seminar talk, The Open University, UK

Collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interation. Supporting social interaction in Computer-argumented environments.
19.4.2007. Math & Computing seminar talk, The Open University, UK

Social interaction in computer-augmented environments - towards an understanding of users' experience in interactive spaces
28.2.2007. CCT Lecture at the Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University

The workaday world of IT professionals: A micro-ethical view
28.7.2006. Talk at Symposium ‘Professions, expertise and knowledge in ICT contexts’ during the international conference ‘Expertise in Context’. 26-28 July 2006 in Berlin. (publication by abstract)

A Framework for collaboration-sensitive design of tangible interaction
27.7.2006. Invited talk at ZMMS (center for man-machine interaction), Technical University Berlin and PhD graduate school Premetei

Co-Designing Novel User Experiences at a Historic Manor House - A Literacy Fieldtrip with Children
6.4.2006. Talk for Austrian-funded MARQ project (Mobile Augmented Reality Quest) consortium (Technical Universities of Vienna and Graz, Imagination GmbH and TMW) at the Technical Museum Vienna

Tangible Interaction and User-Centered Design.
25.01.2006. Seminar talk at FIT Lab (Future Interaction Technologies), Dept. of Computing, University of Wales, Swansea

Understanding and designing tangible interaction: a framework on physical space and social interaction.
15.11.2005. Invited talk at Dept. of Computing, Lancaster University

Co-Designing Novel User Experiences at a Historic Manor House.
4.10.2005. Guest talk at Institute for Media Informatics at Ludwigs-Maximilian University Munich and for HCI class

A Framework for Analysis and Design of Tangible Interaction Supporting Social Interaction.
18. Sept 2005. Guest presentation in Tutorial ‚Prototyping Tangible Interfaces’ at E-CSCW 2005

Tangible Interaction for Collaborative Use - A Design Framework
25. Feb. 2005. Human Centred Technology Group Seminar, University of Sussex, UK

Collaboration Support with Tangible Interfaces and Tangible Interaction -  Developing a Design Framework.
18. Nov. 2004.  Seminar talk at the Dept. of Design and Use of Information Technology (DUIT) at the IT-University Copenhagen

Tangible Interaction Supporting Collaborative Use - A Framework for Design and Analysis.
3. Nov. 2004. Guest lecture in IT Product Design program. University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Mads Clausen Institute

Verantwortung im informatischen Berufsalltag - Eine Mikro-Ethik informatischen Handelns.
25. Mai 2004, Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg. lecture within the Ringvorlesung on Computing and Ethics.

Assessing Support for Neighborhood Participation in Design: Multilevel Design using Role Play as Method.
27. November 2002, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Mads Clausen Institute

Tangible User Interfaces: Technische Ansätze und Optionen. (on technical aspects of TUI realisation)
4.November 2002. talk at Fraunhofer FIT (ex-GMD), Bonn  (slides in German, pdf)

Kooperatives Problemlösen mit interaktiven Medien - Erfahrungen bei der Verwendung eines Rollenspielszenarios zur Evaluation des Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC).
20. August 2002. talk at research group DIMEB (Digitale Medien in der Bildung), Dept. of Informatics, University of Bremen

How Graspability and Manipulability of Design Media Affect Interaction: Graspable Interfaces as Tool for Cooperative Design.
19. November 2001.informal talk at MIT's Tangible Media Group, Boston, USA

Graspable Interfaces: a Valuable Tool for Cooperative Modeling & Design.
23. October 2001. Guest talk in Ernesto Arias' class on Research Issues & Methods in Planning and Design' ENVD 3122. Dept. of Architecture and Urban Planning. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Graspable Interfaces: a Valuable Tool for Cooperative Modeling & Design
17. October 2001. Guest speaker at  L3D Meeting. University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Center for Lifelong Learning and Design

Verantwortung in IT-Berufen.
Gastvortrag am 30.6. 2001 im SoWi-Seminar "InformatikerInnen -- hochbezahlte Gurus oder
nützliche Idioten" von Prof. Thomas Risse und Prof. Meyer-Braun im Studiengang Technische Informatik der Hochschule Bremen / guest talk in a seminar of the technical informatics studies program of Bremen University of Applied Sciences on responsibility in IT-work

Gegenständliche Computer-Schnittstellen: ein Werkzeug für erfahrungsorientiertes und ko-operatives Modellieren?!
10.11.2000, Chemnitz. Vortrag auf der Interdisziplinären Tagung  ”Neue Medien im Arbeitsalltag – Empirische Analysen, Gestalterische Impulse, Theoretische Befunde” der DFG-Forschergruppe ”Neue Medien im Alltag” an der TU Chemnitz / talk at  an interdisciplinary conference on informatization of work life about Real Reality and graspable interfaces in general

Greifbare (Computer)Schnittstellen für das kooperative Modellieren.
1.8.2000, Bonn. Vortrag bei der Arbeitsgruppe PROSEC (Projektgruppe Software Ergonomie und CSCW) des FG Informatik III, Uni Bonn / talk at research group PROSEC in Bonn about Real Reality and the PhD project

Integrated Real and Virtual Prototyping.
2.9.1998, Aachen, IECON ’98, 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. Vortrag in Vertretung für Prof. Bruns / talk in proxy for Prof. Bruns

Real Reality – Human Computer Interaction Leaving the Desktop Metaphor.
17.8.1998, Vortrag im Seminar des Computer Science Department der City University, London

Real Reality und Facharbeit,
Vortrag mit Bernd Robben im ITB-Kolloquium, 22.7.1998, Bremen / talk with a colleague, Bernd Robben, on pedagogical applications of Real Reality

Didaktische Probleme einer Informatik-Erstsemesterveranstaltung – Ansätze zu einer Hochschul-Fach-Didaktik der Informatik.
12. 12. 1995, IMA/HDZ, RWTH Aachen ./  talk on didactical problems of cs01-informatics-beginners