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2008- University of Strathclyde (Mobiquitous Lab):

Interaction Styles and Guidelines for multi-touch interaction on maritime equipment: Frøy Birte Bjørneset 's PhD project (I am 2nd supervisor) 2008-2010. Frøy passed  her viva in late 2010.

Embodiment in physical data artefacts through creative practice. Trevor Hogan's PhD project (started summer 2011) investigates tangible data visualization and the role of embodiment in the user experience of physical data artefacts, taking a phenomenological perspective. Trevor is an external PhD student and a lecturer at Cork Instittue of Technology in Ireland. See tactiledata.net 

Multimodal Interaction and Museum Learning. Loraine Clarke's PhD project (University of Strathclyde funding) (started Oct. 2011)

"Wi' gleesome touch!" A user study of touch interfaces for families. Over the summer of 2010 we conducted a formative user study of touchscreen and intearctive table installation prototypes for the new Robert Burns Birthplace museum in Alloway, Ayrshire. Our research informed the design of the final systems and was funded by the National Trust Scotland. The target audience for the museum are British young families and so-called 'empty-nesters'. PhD student Emma Nicol worked on the project with Eva Hornecker and Mark Dunlop. We are now doing follow-up studies in the RBB museum, observing interaction in the museum.

Supporting School Children with Mobiles: Building on relationships with the Dept. of Education and EEE, the Mobiquitous Lab are looking into use of participatory design, social networks and mobile support for teenagers in high schools - initially funded by the Strathclyde Bridging the Gap program and working with Springburn Academy (a school) in Glasgow.

UbiComp and Urban Space. Patrick Tobias Fischer's PhD project investigates interaction in urban space and exploring how to support 'urban encounters'. Tobias builds and evaluates installations for urban spaces and has a SICSA scholarship. (2009 -)

T-vote - supporting children's decision making through a tangible tabletop application. As a collaboration between the EU Puppy-IR project at Strathclyde and the Mobiquitous Lab, we have co-supervised a final year project which resulted in an IDC short paper. 

Besides of these there are a couple of smaller projects exploring applications for multitouch tables, using Wii's to capture whole-body movements etc. More on the Mobiquitous Lab website...


2007-2009  The Open University, Milton Keynes

'A framework for collaboration-sensitive Design of Tangible Interaction'
 2 year Post-Doc Research Grant. Ho 3901/1-1 by the German National Research Society (DFG) for research abroad, based at the OU. Continued with data analysis and writing up at the University of Strathclyde.

See also: the Tangible Interaction Framework

The project is based upon my tangible interaction framework, extending and exploring it. Research is based mainly at the OU, but augmented by a range of short-term research collaboration with external partners.
Collaboration at the OU is particularly with the  ShareIT project.

Some aspects of the framework have been investigated in more depth - in particular 'access and entry points' (see the DPPI'07 paper and the CSCW'08 paper).

Also over the course of several years I have worked on transforming the framework into a more accessible resource that might be used for creative design and system analysis. The outcome of this is a set of cards (each holding one issue) that can be used in creative brainstorming sessions. The card 'game' and the experiences made with it will be presented at TEI'10.

- Shareable Interfaces Workshop, Open University, 19-20 June 2007. (organized together with Paul Marshall and Yvonne Rogers, Pervasive Interaction Lab, OU, financed by the EQUATOR IRC)
- Shareable Interfaces for Learning workshop, University of Sussex, 11+12.Sept 2008 (organized with Amanda Harris, Nicola Yuill, Paul Marshall and Yvonne Rogers, funded by the British Ubiquitous Computing Grand Challenge project)
- Theorie- und Praxiswerkstatt Be-greifbare Interaktion, Mensch & Computer workshop 2008 Sept. 7 2008 with Heidi Schelhowe, Bernd Robben, Milena Reichel

Publications:
- E. Hornecker. Creative Idea Exploration within the Structure of a Guiding Framework: The Card Brainstorming Game. Proc. of TEI'10. ACM. 8 pages
- E. Hornecker. Interactions Around a Contextually Embedded System. Proc. of TEI'10. ACM. 8 pages
- P. Marshall, R. Fleck, A. Harris, J. Rick, E. Hornecker, N. Yuill, Y. Rogers & N.S. Dalton. Fighting for Control: Embodied Negotiation of Access to Digital and Physical Representations.  (note) Proc. of CHI 2009. ACM 2149-2152 pdf
- E. Hornecker, A. Dünser.  Of Pages and Paddles: Children's Expectations and Mistaken Interactions with Physical-Digital Tools. Interacting with Computers. Special issue on 'Physicality and Interaction'. Volume 21, Issues 1-2, January 2009, 95-107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.007 (already out as DOI in 2008) preprint pdf
- E. Hornecker, A. Schmidt, B. Ullmer. Editorial for the special issue on “Tangible and Embedded Interaction”. International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART), Volume 1 - Issue 3/4 – 2008. 245-248
- E. Hornecker, T. Krakowski, R. Wettach. All Around the Table. Position paper for CSCW 2008 workshop ‚Designing for Families’
- E. Hornecker, P. Marshall, N.S. Dalton, Y. Rogers (2008): Collaboration and Interference: Awareness with Mice or Touch Input. ACM CSCW 2008. San Diego. 167-176   pdf
- P. Marshall, E. Hornecker, R. Morris, N.S. Dalton, Y. Rogers (2008): When the fingers do the talking: A Study of Group Participation With Varying Constraints to a Tabletop Interface. Proc. of IEEE Tabletop 2008. pp. 37-44  pdf
- E. Hornecker  (2008): "I don't understand it either, but it is cool" Visitor Interactions with a Multi-Touch Table in a Museum. Proc. of IEEE Tabletop 2008.pp. 121-128 pdf
- E. Eichhorn, R. Wettach, E. Hornecker (2008): A stroking device for spatially separated couples. Short paper accepted for MobileHCI 2008. ACM
- J. Werner, R. Wettach, E. Hornecker (2008): United-pulse: Feeling your partner’s pulse. Demo paper accepted for MobileHCI 2008. ACM DL
 - E. Hornecker, R. J.K. Jacob, C. Hummels, B. Ullmer, A. E. van den Hoven, A. Mazalek. TEI goes on: Tangible and Embedded Interaction. IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine/ Journal April-June (Vol . 7. No. 2). 91-95  Copyright IEEE pdf (a report on TEI 2007 and 2008)
- E. Hornecker (2008). Tangible Interaction - An Inclusive Perspective. form+zweck 22 (vol 40). English pages 78-85 (www.formundzweck.de)  
- E. Hornecker, P. Marshall, Y. Rogers (2007). Entry and Access – How Shareability Comes About. Proc. of DPPI’07 (Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces). Helsinki. ACM, 328-342 pdf
- E. Hornecker (2007). Physical Affordances considered Harmful!? Position Paper for 2nd International Workshop on Physicality 2007 pdf (reanalysis of data material from AR-Book study)
- E. Hornecker(2008). Die Rückkehr des Sensorischen: Tangible Interfaces und Tangible Interaction. In: Hellige (ed.): Engpass Mensch-Computer-Interface. Transcript Verlag (in press for 2008) (also published in form+zweck 22 (vol 40). German pages 78-89) Preprint  pdf
- E. Hornecker. Learning about Interactivity from Physical Toys. Accepted Full Paper for NORDES 2007 (Nordic Design Research Conference), Stockholm (online proceedings on www.nordes.org) pdf

The project is based on
Eva Hornecker and Jacob Buur (2006): Getting a grip on tangible interaction: a framework on physical space and social interaction.   CHI 2006 © ACM (gives a high-level overview of the entire framework, positions it in existing research, and discusses three case studies in relation to the framework concepts)

Eva Hornecker (2005): A Design Theme for Tangible Interaction: Embodied Facilitation. E-CSCW 2005 © Springer
(focuses on Embodied Facilitation, that is how the physical set-up and configuration influence group behavior similarly to the design decisions a human facilitator for a group session might make, explains the concepts along with corresponding guidelines and gives examples from case studies)
 
2006 HitLab NZ

Augmented Book User Study of the AR-Jam .
Study conducted as part of the MagicBook project in collaboration with the BBC (AR-Jam development).  Examines the use of the augmented reality technology for education. We observed children reading an augmented book aimed at early literacy education and analysed interaction issues and effects on reading motivation.

Publications:
- E. Hornecker, A. Dünser. Of Pages and Paddles: Children's Expectations and Mistaken Interactions with Physical-Digital Tools. Interacting with Computers. Special issue on 'Physicality and Interaction'. Forthcoming
- E. Hornecker, A. Dünser. Supporting Early Literacy with Augmented Books – Experiences with an Exploratory Study. Proc. of Informatik 2007. pp. 555-559.   pdf
- A. Dünser, E. Hornecker. Lessons from an AR Book study. In Proceedings of TEI'07. ACM, 179-182 pdf
- A. Dünser, E. Hornecker. An observational study of children interacting with an augmented story book. Proc. Of Edutainment 2007. 305-315   pdf
- H. Smith, R. Luckin, D. Stanton Fraser, L. Williams, A. Duenser, E. Hornecker, A. Woolard, B. Lancaster. Sun seeking: Interactive story-reading through different media. Accepted Poster for AIED 2007
- E. Hornecker. Physical Affordances considered Harmful!? Position Paper for 2nd International Workshop on Physicality 2007 pdf

Augmented Tourism Study.
New Zealand TechNet grant for overview study on augmented museum experiences and mobile tourism for Tamaki Tours Ltd (5000$)

Publications:  
- E. Hornecker; P. Bartie. Technology in Tourism: Handheld Guide Systems and Museum Technologies. HitLab NZ Technical Report 2006-1.

2005-2006 University of Sussex:

Chawton House
sub-project/experience of EPSRC project Equator. Started March 2005. In cooperation with University of Southampton, Chawton House and a Southampton school. Co-Design with Chawton House curators and teachers for a visitor information system (for the grounds of Chawton House) for visitors and school fieldtrips. A literacy fieldtrip with 6 students was run in July 2005, the children taking inspirations from the grounds for a creative writing exercise.

Key Publications:
- Introducing the project and giving background of the setting and problem space:
      The Chawton House Experience – Augmenting the Grounds of a Historic Manor House. pdf paper in the workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: Towards a new understanding of visitors’ experiences in museums”.

Focusing on the school fieldtrip:
- PerEl 2006 (Pervasive E-Learning Workshop), and ED-Media 2006 (both focus more on technical part),
- IDC 2006 (Interaction Design and Children) (focus on the design of the fieldtrip and the childrens experience)
- Hornecker, Halloran, Fitzpatrick. Taking Literacy Beyond The Classroom. Proc. of Informatik 2007    pdf

Focusing on the Co-Design Process:
- DIS'06 (users evolving understanding over time, use of methods) and
- PDC'06 (reflection of the design relationship(s) and learning process) and
- MobileHCI 2006 on using lessons learned from the co-design workshops to develop in-situ authoring tools

2003-2004 TU Vienna:

 Evaluation Study medien.welten
Evaluation of SmartCard usage and visitor engagement with interactive installations in the exhibition medien.welten in the Technical Museum of Vienna (Technisches Museum Wien)
involves a diploma thesis (by Matthias Stifter) on statistical data analysis of events from the smart.cards and usage of exhibits as well as qualitative observation and interviews with visitors.

Key Publications:
- Endbericht / final report (in German) to the museum and the sponsors of the exhibition
- O. Moritsch, E. Hornecker, M. Stifter. Assessing Visitor  Behavior and Attitudes in the medien.welten Exhibition. Poster at CHI 2004. Vienna. ACM. p.1536  pdf
- E. Hornecker, O. Moritsch, M. Stifter.  Mit einem digitalen Rucksack in den medien.welten.  Poster at Mensch & Computer 2004, Paderborn. München:  Oldenbourg Verlag. pp.309-310  (in German) pdf
- E. Hornecker, M. Stifter. Digital Backpacking in the Museum with a SmartCard. Proc. of CHINZ (7th Annual Conference of the NZ ACM Special Interest Group), ACM Press, pp. 99-107 pdf
- E. Hornecker, M. Stifter. Learning from Interactive Museum Installations About Interaction Design for Public Settings. Proceedings of OzCHI 2006. Sydney. ACM, 135-142  pdf

Snippets from the evaluation reappear as case study illustrations for the Tangible Interaction Framework (CHI 2006, E-CSCW 2005)

Continuation and WriteUp of PhD Thesis project
Eva Hornecker. Tangible User Interfaces als kooperationsunterstützendes Medium. PhD-thesis. published electronically at Elektronische Bibliothek, Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen. July 2004

Teaching ....  -Related Publications:
- E. Hornecker. Learning about Interactivity from Physical Toys. Full Paper for NORDES 2007, pdf
- E. Hornecker, T. Psik. Using ARToolKit Markers to Build Tangible Prototypes and Simulate Other Technologies. Proc. of Interact 2005.  pp 30-42  (pdf) 

1997-2003 Bremen:

 EUGABE  ( DFG-Finanzierung/German National Research Funding) 1997-2000
development of conceptual and functional prototype for a pneumatics learning environment that couples physical objects with digital simulations

Key publications: (non-listed publications in German only)
- HCI 1999
- ED-Media 1998  and
- CHI 2000 poster (in cooperation with follow-up EU Project)

Gegenständliche (Greifbare) Benutzungsschnittstellen und kooperative Modellierung.
(PhD project funded with a grant by the Hans-Böckler foundation 2000-2003)

Sub-project funded by Hans-Böckler foundation in cooperation with the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design  (L3D ), University of Colorado, Boulder: Evaluation of the EDC system

Dissertation / PhD thesis handed in April 2004: "Tangible User Interfaces als kooperationsunterstützendes Medium"
(defended in June 2004)

Key publications:
- COOP 2002 paper and
- DIS 2002  paper on EDC evaluation  
- on tangible interfaces in general (in German, 2003)

Key results and the EDC evaluation reappear as case study illustrations for the Tangible Interaction Framework
- CHI 2006
- E-CSCW 2005

E. Hornecker. Sketches, Drawings, Diagrams, Physical Models, Prototypes, and Gesture as Representational Forms. Position Paper for 2nd International Workshop on Physicality 2007 pdf   (translation, update and summary of content from thesis)