Our published research material.
The incluMOVE system for an interactive and context-aware learning and workspace is now publicly available free of charge. The system is the result of the education and research project incluMOVE to support people with reduced performance in their work. The assistive system incluMOVE guides people through the work process of assembling printed circuit boards via …
The ACI’s first science comic has been published. Within a thrilling crime story it provides articulate information on the potentials and limitations of social robots in the future. The 72-page comic in DIN A4 format is published in print in February and can be read online here. A valuable Care Robot Disappears The story takes …
The new film “Suitceyes Documentary” by four students from Offenburg University provides a sensitive insight into the everyday life of deafblind persons. It shows how intelligent wearables developed in the EU-project SUITCEYES can significantly improve their lives. New ways of inclusion No vision and a long silence – this is how the 26-minutes documentary introduces …
During the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia MUM 2020, SUITCEYES presented the Tactile Board, a multimodal communication prototype that uses haptic communication to support individuals with deafblindness in social interactions. A Multimodal AAC Device for Individuals with Deafblindness The concept for the communication prototype Tactile Board emerged from co-creation sessions with members …
How much do we accept virtual agents, even if they give us negative feedback or even insult us? The PhD. Candidate Isaac Wang from Florida investigated this together with the Affective & Cognitive Institute ACI in an intercultural study about acceptance of virtual agents. The result of the different acceptance by American and German participants …
In the midst of innovative works and ideas on the ecosystem of mobile, smart and embedded devices that always permeate the MobileHCI conferences, in this year’s edition we had the honour to present the research “A Mobile App to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation Among University Students” at the event’s Doctoral Consortium. This project, conducted …
Amongst virtual reality applications and experimental installations, the incluMOVE prototype was accepted as a demo paper for the German HCI conference Mensch und Computer 2020 (September 6-9). In a YouTube livestream we presented this contribution with the incluMOVE demonstrator representing the ACI. Every year, designers, developers and scientists from the fields of usability and user …
We are happy to share that the Affective & Cognitive Institute had a work-in-progress paper accepted into the prestigious ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2020, July 6-20) conference proceedings. Our paper titled “Co-Designing Assistive Tools to Support Social Interactions by Individuals with Deafblindness” describes the opportunities and challenges of including individuals with deafblindness in design …
Although we could not visit the wonderful island of Crete, as this year’s ACM PETRA is virtual, the ACI was very successful. We submitted two contributions, a full paper and a poster, which were both accepted. Moreover, the poster received the “Best Poster Award”. Both papers are related to tactile navigation and thus to the …
Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces – we meet them in shopping malls and even more personal settings like health and care. Does this imply they should become more human, able to interpret and adequately respond to human emotions? Do we want them to help elderly persons? Do we want them …
