Research Landscape at Media Computing Group

In HCI@Aachen: Experiments in the Future of Media and Mobility (PDF, 2.6 MB) we present the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University and its goal to explore the future of collaborative, ubiquitous interaction with audiovisual media. It explains how this initial research vision has led to work on the levels of HCI theory, algorithms, toolkits, testbeds, and design patterns.
It also introduces some of our external collaborations, in particular the Excellence Initiative, Germany’s most fundamental change in government research funding to date, which supports RWTH and our group.

Vision: New Interactions With Ubiquitous Media

Summary matrix of our 3 research directions and 4 contribution levels, with project names in each cell:

Requires work on:	Audiovisual Aspects	Ubiquitous Aspects	Collaborative Aspects
Theories & Algorithms	PhaVoRIT Semantic Time DRAGON	Selexels Design Space of Mobile Input Haptic Languages	Social Proxemics AudioSpace
Toolkits	Semantic Time Framework	iStuff Mobile	iStuff
Testbeds	You’re The Conductor Maestro REXband DiMaß	REXplorer Associative PDA Snowboard Assistant	Aachen Media Space HumTec Spaces Table Lemmings The Logistics Table
Patterns	Design Patterns for Interactive Exhibits		Media Space Design Patterns