PD Dr. habil. Alexander Wiethoff

Mail	alexander.wiethoff@ifi.lmu.de
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Address	Alexander Wiethoff LMU Munich Media Informatics Group Frauenlobstr. 7a Room 456 (4th floor) 80337 Munich Germany
Consultation Hours	During the summer-semester Mondays 11-12pm in my office. Please note that I cannot supervise new BA/MA theses at the moment due to limited availability.

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Publications

2023
	Beat Rossmy, Nađa Terzimehić, Tanja Doering, Daniel Buschek, Alexander Wiethoff Point of no Undo: Irreversible Interactions as a Design Strategy In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23), April 23-28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581433. (bib)
2022
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Martin Tomitsch, Jessica Cauchard, Luke Hespanhol, Maria Lupetti, Ronald Schroeter, Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Alexander Wiethoff, Stewart Worrall Interaction Design and the Automated City - Emerging Urban Interfaces, Prototyping Approaches and Design Methods Special Issue in the Open Access Journal on Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MDPI), Basel, Switzerland
Download	Beat Rossmy, Maximilian Rauh, Alexander Wiethoff Towards User Interface Guidelines for Musical Grid Interfaces In Proceedings of the 22st International ACM Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Auckland, New Zealand, June 28th - July 1st, 2022. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
2021
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Martin Tomitsch, Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol, Linda Hirsch, Beat Rossmy, Stewart Worrall New Approaches for Prototyping Interactive Applications in Urban Environments In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference Media Architecture Biennale (MAB '2020). Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 28 - July 02, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Beat Rossmy, Sebastian Unger, Alexander Wiethoff TouchGrid - Combining Touch Interaction with Musical Grid Interfaces In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Shanghai, China, June 15-18, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff Musical Grid Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future Directions In Proceedings of the 21st International ACM Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Shanghai, China, June 15-18, 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller, Beat Rossmy, Linda Hirsch, Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch A Media Architecture Approach for Designing the Next Generation of Urban Interfaces Journal Article in Interaction Design and Architecture(s) - Special Issue on Immersive Technologies in Future Cities, 2021, ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998, Scuola IaD, Rome, Italy
Download	Beat Rossmy, Sonja Rümelin, Alexander Wiethoff StringTouch - From String Instruments towards new Interface Morphologies In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 9, 1-10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440628 | Honorable Mention Award (bib)
2020
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff The Light-Shifting Display - Blurring the Boundaries Between Display and Luminaire Design Article in the Professional Lighting Design Magazine (PLDM, Chinese Edition), VIA Publishers 2020, Beijing, China.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol, Alexander Wiethoff, Martin Tomitsch Self-Moving Robots and Pulverised Urban Displays: Status Quo, Taxonomy & Challenges Journal Article in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing - Special Issue on Pervasive Displays, 2020, ISSN 1617-4917, Springer, London, UK.
Download	Beat Rossmy, Sarah Theres Völkel, Elias Naphausen, Patricia Kimm, Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Muxel Punishable AI: Examining Users' Attitude Towards Robot Punishment In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 179-191. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395542 (bib)
2019
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller The Ambient Display - Integrating Media Architecture Into Existing Surrounding and Structures Article in the Professional Lighting Design Magazine (PLDM, Chinese Edition), VIA Publishers 2019, Beijing, China.
Download	Svenja Dittrich, Ferdinand Hof, Alexander Wiethoff InteracDiff - Visualizing and Interacting with UX-Data In Proceedings of the annual conference organised by the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V.) and the German Usability Professionals Association (Mensch und Computer), Hamburg, Germany, September 8-11, 2019. Springer, Berlin, Germany.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Luke Hespanhol, Alexander Wiethoff, Martin Tomitsch Self-Moving Robots and Pulverized Urban Displays: Newcomers in the Pervasive Display Taxonomy In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis), Palermo, Italy, June 12-14, 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA. Best Conference-Paper Award.
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff The Modular Backward Evolution - Why to Use Outdated Technologies In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (pp. 343-348). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3672988 (bib)
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff StringTouch - A Scalable Low-Cost Concept for Deformable Interfaces In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper INT004, 1-4. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313245 (bib)
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff COMB - Shape as a Meaningful Element of Interaction In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 287-295. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295646 (bib)
2018
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff, Andrew Vande Moere, Martin Tomitsch A Media Architecture Approach to Designing Shared Displays for Residential Internet-of-Things Devices In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference Media Architecture Biennale (MAB '18). Beijing, China, November 13 - 16, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller Designing Mobile Low-Resolution Media Architecture: Challenges, Opportunities and Goals In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference Media Architecture Biennale (MAB '18). Beijing, China, November 13 - 16, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff COMB - Form als bedeutungsvolle Eingabemethode in der Gestaltung Be-greifbarer Schnittstellen für Kinder In: Dachselt, R. & Weber, G. (Hrsg.), Mensch und Computer 2018 - Workshopband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. DOI: 10.18420/muc2018-ws05-0498 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff Giving Users What They Want - State of FL-UX Article in "Maize Magazine" Issue 08/2018. H-FARM S.p.A. Italy
Download	Sarah Jenney, Michael Muehlhaus, Nils Seifert , Frank Petzold, Alexander Wiethoff Escaping Flatlands - Interdisciplinary Collaborative Prototyping Solutions to Current Architectural Topics In Proceedings of the 36th ACM International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2018), Lodz, Poland, September 19-21, 2018.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff, Martin Tomitsch Designing Low-Res Lighting Displays as Ambient Gateways to Smart Devices In Proceedings of the The Seventh ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis), Munich, Germany, June 6-8, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Beat Rossmy, Alexander Wiethoff COMB - A Modular Low-Resolution Display to Support Electronic Musical Pre-Education In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 1-2. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3205873.3210700 | Best Conference-Demo Award (bib)
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Martin Tomitsch, Alexander Wiethoff Understanding Artefact and Process Challenges for Designing Low-Res Lighting Displays In Proceedings of the 36th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). Montreal, Canada, April 21 - 26, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
2017
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller Experiences Deploying Hybrid Media Architecture in Public Environments Chapter article in the Book Media Architecture: Using Information and Media as Construction Material - de Gruyter Mouton, March 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Heinrich Hussmann Media Architecture: Using Information and Media as Construction Material In the Book Series - Age of Access - de Gruyter Mouton, March 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff, Martin Tomitsch Sketching-in-Light: Enabling Hybrid Prototyping of Low-Resolution Lighting Displays In Proceedings of the 11th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - (TEI 2017), Yokohama, Japan, February 20 - 23, 2017
2016
Download	Andrés Lucero, Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Alexander Wiethoff, Bernt Meerbeek, Henrika Pihlajaniemi , Jon Mason Rethinking Our Interactions With Light In the international ACM Journal INTERACTIONS VOLUME XXVII. November + December 2016, ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff LightBricks: A Physical Prototyping Toolkit for Do-it-Yourself Media Architecture In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference Media Architecture Biennale (MAB '16). Sydney, Australia, June 1 - 4, 2016. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Download	Peter Dalsgaard, Kim Halskov, Alexander Wiethoff Designing Media Architecture: Tools and Approaches for Addressing the Main Design Challenges In Proceedings of the 34th SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). San Jose, CA, USA, May 7 - 12, 2016. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
2015
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff Blinking Lights and Other Revelations - Experiences Designing Hybrid Media Facades In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, PerDis '15. SaarbrŸcken, Germany, June 10-12, 2015.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Jana Gerstberger, Sven Gehring StarLight - Exploring Embodied Interactions with Media Architecture and Large Public Audiences In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, PerDis '15. SaarbrŸcken, Germany, June 10-12, 2015.
2014
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Thomas Bauer, Sven Gehring Investigating Multi-User Interactions on Interactive Media Facades In Proceedings of the 3rd International ACM Conference Media Architecture Biennale, MAB '14. Aarhus, Denmark November 19 - 22, 2014.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Marius Hoggenmueller Orkhestra - On the design of interactive media architecture for public environments In Extended Abstracts of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI'14. Helsinki, Finland, October 26-30, 2014.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Nassrin Hajinejad, Jens Alexander Ewald Be-greifbare Interaktion In Proceedings of the 14th Conference Mensch und Computer, MuC '14. Munich, Germany, August 31 - September 3, 2014.
Download	Sven Gehring, Alexander Wiethoff Interaction with Media Facades Journal Informatik Spektrum Special Issue "Interaction Beyond the Desktop" Springer, London 2014.
Download	Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexander Wiethoff LightSet: Enabling Urban Prototyping of Interactive Media Facades In Proceedings of the 10th International ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '14. Vancouver, Canada, June 14 - 18, 2014.
2013
Download	Alexander Wiethoff Designing Media Architecture: A Research Agenda for Urban Interfaces In Workshop Proceedings of the International Symposium on Digital Cities 8, June 30, 2013.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Hanna Schneider, Julia Küfner, Michael Rohs, Andreas Butz, Saul Greenberg Paperbox: A toolkit for exploring tangible interaction on interactive surfaces In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, CC '13. Sydney, Australia, 17 - 20 June, 2013.
Download	Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Harm van Essen, Andrés Lucero, Jon Mason, Bernt Meerbeek, Elke den Ouden, Alexander Wiethoff Interactive City Lighting In Extended Abstracts of the 31st ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13. Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013.
Download	Sven Gehring, Alexander Wiethoff Digital Light Installations: Connecting people through interactive buildings In Extended Abstracts of the 31st ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '13. Paris, France, April 27 - May 2, 2013.
Download	Gregor Broll, Henri Palleis, Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff Exploring Multimodal Feedback for an NFC-based Mobile Shopping Assistant In Proceedings of the 5th International Research Workshop with focus on Near Field Communication (NFC 2013), Zurich, Switzerland, February 05, 2013
2012
Download	Alexander Wiethoff Prototyping Tools for Hybrid Interactions PhD Dissertation, University of Munich 2012
Download	Kalle Kormann-Philipson, Alexander Wiethoff Concept Development Article in WEAVE Magazine, interactive design, konzeption & development, Issue 04/2012
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Sven Gehring Designing Interaction with Media Facades: A Case Study In Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '12. Newcastle, UK, June 11 - 15, 2012. Best Full-Paper Award. (bib)
Download	Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Bernt Meerbeek, Jon Mason, Harm van Essen, Serge Offermans, Alexander Wiethoff, Norbert Streitz, Andrés Lucero Designing Interactive Lighting In Proceedings of the 9th International ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '12. Newcastle, UK, June 11 - 15, 2012.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Hanna Schneider, Michael Rohs, Andreas Butz, Saul Greenberg Sketch-a-TUI: Low Cost Prototyping of Tangible Interactions Using Cardboard and Conductive Ink In Proceedings of the 6th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2012, Kingston, Canada, February 19 - 22, 2012 (bib)
2011
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Hendrik Richter Hybrid Interactions on In-Car Touch Interfaces Workshop AutoNUI: Automotive Natural User Interfaces, in conjunction with the international Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - Automotive UI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, November 30th - December 2nd, 2011
Download	Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff Augmenting Future In-Vehicle Interactions With Remote Tactile Feedback Workshop AutoNUI: Automotive Natural User Interfaces, in conjunction with the international Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications - Automotive UI 2011, Salzburg, Austria, November 30th - December 2nd, 2011
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Sven Gehring Interacting with Light In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence - AMI'11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011. (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Loehmann, Alexander Wiethoff HapticArmrest: Remote Tactile Feedback on Touch Surfaces Using Combined Actuators In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence - AMI'11, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2011. (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Benedikt Blaha, Alexander Wiethoff, Dominikus Baur, Andreas Butz Tactile Feedback without a Big Fuss: Simple Actuators for High-Resolution Phantom Sensations In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp'11, Beijing, China, September 2011. (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Gregor Broll SoloFind: Chains of Interactions with a Mobile Retail Experience System In Extended Abstracts of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0228-9 (bib)
Download	Sebastian Boring, Sven Gehring, Alexander Wiethoff, Magdalena Blöckner, Johannes Schöning, Andreas Butz Multi-User Interaction on Media Facades through Live Video on Mobile Devices Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 (bib)
Download	Sven Gehring, Sebastian Boring, Alexander Wiethoff Multi-User Painting on Media Facades through Live-Video on Mobile Devices In Extended Abstracts of the 29th ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0228-9 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Magdalena Blöckner LightBox - Exploring Interaction Modalities with Colored Light In Proceedings of the 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0478-8 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Robert Kowalski, Andreas Butz inTUIt-Simple Identification on Tangible User Interfaces In Proceedings of the 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-4503-0478-8 (bib)
Download	Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff EdgeMatrix: Remote Tactile Feedback on Interactive Surfaces using a Shape Display OUI'11: Second International Workshop on Organic User Interfaces, 5th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2011, Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011 (bib)
2010
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz Process Tools for Interaction Design In the International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), 2010. ISSN 1861-4280
Download	Alina Hang, Gregor Broll, Alexander Wiethoff Visual Design of Physical User Interfaces for NFC-based Mobile Interaction In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing interactive Systems, DIS '10. Aarhus, Denmark, August 16 - 20, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4503-0103-9.
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Raphael Wimmer, Hendrik Richter, Andreas Butz Different Brainstorming Methods Within the Context of Physical Computing In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), Bombay, India, July 01-03, 2010. ISBN 0-7803-8977-8 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz ColourVision Controlling Light Patterns through Postures In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Banff, Canada, June 24-26, 2010. ISBN 978-3-642-13543-9
Download	Martin Hommer, Robert Kowalski, Bettina Conradi, Alexander Wiethoff, Sebastian Boring, Heinrich Hussmann Creating Conversation Opportunities in Urban Spaces through Public Displays and Personal Devices Workshop on Designing for Crowds (in Conjunction with Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 2010 (bib)
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Bettina Conradi, Andreas Butz Artifacts in the design process of pervasive computing Workshop Artifacts in Design: Representation, Ideation, and Process. 28th ACM Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010). Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10-15, 2010.
Download	Bettina Conradi, Doris Hausen, Fabian Hennecke, Max Maurer, Hendrik Richter, Alexander Wiethoff, Heinrich Hussmann Prototyping Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Winter Term 2009/2010 (bib)
2009
Download	Alexander Wiethoff, Alexander Sorg Entwicklung benutzerorientierter Embedded MMIs : Den Anwender im Blick 2-Page article in "Markt und Technik" Issue 49/2009. ISSN 0344-8843
Download	Fabian Hennecke, Sebastian Boring, Bettina Conradi, Sara Streng, Raphael Wimmer, Alexander Wiethoff, Andreas Butz Interactive Surfaces Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Summer Term 2009 (bib)

Patents

Joachim Gr�tzke (1), Tobias Schmidt (1), Hanna Schneider (2), Alexander Wiethoff (2)

1: BSH Germany, 2: University of Munich.

Bet�tigen eines Sensorbildschirms. Patent File: 102012210563.8

Teaching Experience