This years edition of Germany’s primary conference on human computer interaction “Mensch und Computer” took place in bremen with high involvement of CrossWorlds’ researchers. Since the conference character emphasizes interdisciplinary exchange between academics, practioners, computer scientists, UX designers and social sientists several of our research fellows participated actively in the event.
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and
Benny Liebold organized a
workshop on methodological approaches to HCI, where
Kalja Kanellopoulos and
Michael Storz presented their multitouch table for multiple users (
Kanellopoulos, Storz 2013, in press). A very interesting discussion about the outlines of a possible mutual methodology for both computer scientists and designers / social scientists was initiated by
Michael Heidt‘s talk (
Heidt 2013, in press). The main talking points can be understood in two (german-language) blog posts. One is pointing out the question,
how qualitative data and results can be communicated more compatible for HCI projects, the other sums up a
discussion on interdisciplinary communication around code between computer scientists. A literally visionary (and entertaining) submission from TU Chemnitz researchers beyond that was the
visual computing group‘s video on a possible HCI avatar tool in the shape of cuddly toys.
