interactive. media. research.
The Media Computing Group, headed by
Prof. Dr. Jan Borchers, conducts research in
Media Computing and
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that goes beyond today's graphical user interface and desktop metaphor. Grounded in Computer Science, we develop and study new interaction theories, techniques, and systems in the areas of interaction with multimedia, ubiquitous computing environments, tangible user interfaces, and HCI design patterns. Our goal is to make the Brave New World of ubiquitous multimedia technologies useful by making it usable.
Our group is part of the
Computer Science Department at
RWTH Aachen University, Germany's
top-ranked University of Technology and one of Germany's nine
Elite Universities. We are also affiliated with the
Media Informatics programme at the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT). Our group was founded in October 2003.
We are a member of the RWTH
UMIC Excellence Cluster in Ultra High-Speed Mobile Information and Communication funded by the
DFG, the German National Science Foundation. We are also a member of the international
RUFAE network that conducts research on user-friendly augmented environments.
We offer several
courses in Human-Computer Interaction. In this area of specialization, students can learn about how people interact with computers and technology, and how computer science can open up new ways of interacting with audio, video, and other media types. For more information please refer to the
specialization information for Media Computing and HCI on the Computer Science Department's web pages.
You will find us at
CHI 2008. See links below and
News&Events at the bottom.
News & Events:
- On May 20th from 5:30pm on we are celebrating the "Abend der offenen Tür" at our group. Here, you can get to know us and what we do and there will be free drinks and snacks!
- See our Table Lemmings exhibit, Wearable Snowboard Assistant and DRAGON video navigation system at the Studieninformationstag on June 11, 2008!
- Our group is the leading research institution in Germany in terms of archival CHI publications since 2003, when our group was founded.
- At CHI 2008, we presented:
- a CHI Note that received a Best Note Award on DRAGON, a direct-manipulation technique for video navigation by Thorsten Karrer et al.,
- a full paper on Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones by Elaine M. Huang et al. that received a Best Paper Honorable Mention,
- a Work-In-Progress paper and a workshop submission on the Wearable Snowboard Instructor by Daniel Spelmezan et al.,
- a Work In Progress on the Associative PDA by Eileen Falke and Jonathan Diehl,
- and Experiments in Media and Mobility: HCI @ Aachen, an overview of our research vision and process, in the Research Landscapes track.
- Our administrator is now Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (Feb 11, 2008)
- Purple Surfer: How to tether your iPhone as an EDGE modem with your Mac.
- Info sheet for online registration for the CS labs.
- Cocoa Heads is a new regular evening meeting of people with a background and interest in Cocoa development for Mac OS X, sponsored by Apple.
- RWTH Aachen University was determined as one of Germany's 9 Elite Universities by the DFG's (German Research Foundation's) Excellence Initiative, receiving a strong boost in extra research funding (Oct 19, 2007)
- Soccer Magic: i10 Red Cards Bring Back Two Trophies! (Apr 16, 2007)
- Informationen zu der Wiederholungsklausur Programmierung - Java.
- Prof. Borchers is away from RWTH during a research semester in WS07/08. We are only offering some of our courses that semester, including DIS 1, see CAMPUS. Video podcasts for private study are available, however. Please take that into account as you are planning your studies.
- We have 1 open PhD position available.
- The Bauhaus Europe project has been stopped. We leave our materials online for archival purposes (Bauhaus Europe Pages) (Dec 11, 2006).
- Coverage of Personal Orchestra 1 in Vienna City Guides after 6 years
- Starting in WS08/09, we will update our lecture sizes (SWS) and contents to accommodate the new Bachelor/Master program.
- HCI Journals and their Impact Factors (Jan, Jan 30, 2006)
- What makes a good PhD student? (Jan, Jan 25, 2006)
- We were the only German research group with a full paper at CHI 2005, the world's premier conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2004 only had U Magdeburg, 2003 we were again the only ones (then still at Stanford), 2002 had no German full papers. (CHI acceptance rates)
- Jan's Top Ten list of HCI books
- Past news & events...
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