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 …
Collaborative study with Florida
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 …
Loneliness App at MobileHCI 2020
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 …
ACI wins People’s Choice Award of ASSETS 2020
Last week, ACI participated in the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020). Due to the on-going covid-19 pandemic, ASSETS was moved to a virtual format for the first time. We presented two publications, the prototype of a gamified haptic wearable and ongoing-work about accessible touchscreens for deafblind individuals – originated …
incluMOVE at MUC 2020
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 …
ACI at the DIS 2020 Conference
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 …
Two Publications and an Award at ACM PETRA 2020
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 …
Interview in the Offenburger Tageblatt
AN ADDED VALUE FOR THE PEOPLE In an interview, professor Oliver Korn takes a look into the future of robots. Coming into Oliver Korn’s office, first thing, the visitor meets Pepper. The little guy certainly looks nice and friendly, but the interaction with the professor is still a bit of a struggle. But Korn is …
Welcome to the Team, Pepper!
After already welcoming QTrobot in our team last March, Pepper joins us as a new team member. He too will assist us in further researching the topic of social robots and will eventually become the foundation of future studies. Pepper is a social-humanoid robot from SoftBank Robotics. His specialty is the interaction with humans. This …
5th SUITCEYES Project Meeting in Offenburg
One of the last work weeks before Christmas. Everybody is preparing for a merry celebration. Well, not entirely. One group of international researchers still keep their minds sharp and active. They gather up at University of Applied Sciences Offenburg to continue their work in the SUITCEYES project. On 5th – 6th December the 5th SUITCEYES …