Cix-all January 2024

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Student Seminar
by Marie Mühlhaus 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Hi all, We will have a student presentation upcoming Wednesday (24.01.2024) at 1:00 pm. Marie Schmidt will be presenting her first Bachelor thesis talk. You can find the thesis title and abstract below. The presentation will take place in E1.7, room 001. Best regards, Marie ------------------------------------------------------ Title: Exploring Fabric Actuation and Deformation Through Magnetic Force Abstract: Clothing is more than just a functionality-based item, it is also a form of self-expression. Fabric actuation can offer exciting ways to support this need for self-expression through movement and shape-change. Current fabric actuation techniques often use Shape-Memory-Alloys, since their wire-like structure affords easy integration as well as versatile actuation movement. However, their actuation is rather slow-paced, limiting the possibility for rapid or high frequency actuation. While pneumatic or robotic approaches offer fast-paced actuation, the required hardware is pretty bulky, making it difficult to integrate into fabric. To address this, my bachelor thesis is exploring the use of magnetic force as an actuation mechanism for fabrics. Through a systematic investigation, I identify and evaluate different actuation possibilities with magnetic force, culminating in a design workshop to explore potential applications

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[HCI-Stammtisch] Talk and visitor: Christoph A. Johns, PhD@Aarhus University
by Anna Maria Feit 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Dear all, * * Christoph Johns is a PhD student at Aarhus University who has been collaborating with my group throughout the last year on the topic of multi-objective UI adaptation. He will be visiting us during two weeks in January to intensifiy our collaborations and get to know the HCI ressearchers in Saarbrücken. Christoph will give an overview over his PhD research on *9th of January at 10 AM, in Room 001 E1.7. *Details below*. * Since he'll be with us for two weeks, please reach out to him directly to arrange individual meetings with him during his stay if you're interested in his work. Best Anna ================================================ *Title:* User Interface Adaptation under Uncertainty *Abstract* Computational interaction design has emerged as an effective approach for the design and adaptation of user interfaces (UIs). Model-based optimization, in particular, has been successfully employed across diverse application domains, ranging from keyboard layout optimization to graphic design inspiration and real-time 3D UI placement. It combines formal descriptions of interaction cost and utility with established optimization methods to identify UI configurations that are expected to fit their context of use. Most commonly, model-based optimization is used to tailor a UI’s configuration to situational or personal needs. However, due to the complex nature of both individuals and situations, the models that express the goodness of a potential design can only approximate the relevant contextual conditions—whether that is the state of the environment or the user’s goals regarding the use of the UI. As the number and complexity of relevant contextual dimensions grow, it thus becomes increasingly difficult to assess the quality of a potential adaptation with regard to the actual design goals and to consistently generate high-quality adaptations in turn. To combat this issue, my PhD project explores changes to the mathematical formulation of the UI adaptation problem to create more robust and flexible adaptive systems. In this talk, I will present some background on context-aware and optimization-based adaptive user interfaces, my investigations into semi-automatic 3D UI placement, and give some indications for future directions that can progress toward more usable context-aware adaptive systems. *Bio* Christoph A. Johns is a second-year PhD student from the Ubiquitous Computing and Collaborative Computer-Human Interaction groups at Aarhus University. He is co-supervised by Clemens Klokmose and Ken Pfeuffer and researches adaptive user interfaces. His primary interest lies in user interface adaptation under uncertainty; that is, automatic (re-)configuration of the appearance or behavior of a user interface on the basis of incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise imperfect information about its usage context. His first research on the topic was published at CHI 2023 and UIST 2023. Before coming to Aarhus University, Christoph completed a MSc (Double Degree) in Human-Computer Interaction and Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Aalto University, a BSc in Business Information Systems at University of Göttingen, and a dual-study BA in Business Administration at WelfenAkademie Braunschweig and Volkswagen Financial Services. -- Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University Saarland Informatics Campus E1 7, R3.09 Computational Interaction Group https://cix.cs.uni-saarland.de/ _______________________________________________ HCI-Stammtisch mailing list HCI-Stammtisch(a)dfki.de https://www.dfki.de/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/hci-stammtisch

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