Raphael Wimmer

PhD Student

Mail	raphael.wimmer ät ifi.lmu.de

I am at the University of Regensburg now. My old e-mail address still works, however.

PhD Student
Research
Teaching (mostly German)
Publications
Projects
- avbParser
- EnterCom
Open Topics for Student Theses
Supervised Theses

Raphael Wimmer is a PhD student ~~and research/teaching assistant~~ in the Media Informatics Group at the University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses on touch-sensitive, non-planar and flexible surfaces. These can be used for grasp recognition.

Research

In my PhD research I want to find out what meaning the way we touch or grasp an object (e.g. a mobile phone, a tangible UI, a computer mouse) carries, and how this information can improve human-computer interaction. Previously I have done some research on Capacitive Sensing for Human-Computer Interfaces. I have built a high-precision capacitive sensing toolkit ("CapToolKit") for research and prototyping. You can find more information about it on its website.

Teaching (mostly German)

Courses is was involved in:

Wintersemester 2006/07: Multimedia im Netz (Übungsleitung)
Wintersemester 2006/07: Praktikum Mediengestaltung (alleinige Betreuung)
Sommersemester 2007: Medientechnik (Übungsleitung)
Wintersemester 2007/08: Multimedia im Netz (Übungsleitung)
Wintersemester 2007/08: Praktikum Mediengestaltung (alleinige Betreuung)
Sommersemester 2008: Medientechnik (Übungsleitung Praktika)
Wintersemester 2008/09: Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion 1 (nur Übung) (Konzept, Übungsleitung)
Wintersemester 2008/09: Praktikum Mediengestaltung (alleinige Betreuung)
Sommersemester 2009: Medientechnik (Übungsleitung Praktika)
Wintersemester 2009/10: Praktikum Mediengestaltung (alleinige Betreuung)
Sommersemester 2010: Computergrafik 1 (Übungsleitung)

Publications

2012
Download	Fabian Hennecke, Raphael Wimmer, Eduard Vodicka, Andreas Butz Vertibles: Using Vacuum Self-Adhesion to Create a Tangible User Interface for Arbitrary Interactive Surfaces In Proceedings of the 6th International ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction - TEI 2012, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, February 19 - 22, 2012
2011
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Patrick Baudisch Modular and Deformable Touch-Sensitive Surfaces Based on Time Domain Reflectometry In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 16-19, 2011. (bib)
Download	Raphael Wimmer Capacitive Sensors for Whole Body Interaction In: David England (Ed.): Whole Body Interaction. Springer, Berlin, Germany, 2011. ISBN 978-0-85729-432-6 (bib)
Download	Raphael Wimmer Grasp Sensing for Human-Computer Interaction In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'11), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, Jan. 2011 (bib)
2010
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Fabian Hennecke, Florian Schulz, Sebastian Boring, Andreas Butz, Heinrich Hussmann Curve: Revisiting the Digital Desk In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2010), Reykjavik, Iceland, Oct. 2010 (bib)
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	Raphael Wimmer, Fabian Hennecke Everything is a Window: Utilizing the Window Manager for Multi-Touch Interaction In the workshop 'Engineering Patterns for Multi-Touch Interfaces' in conjunction with the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems (EICS), June 2010, Berlin, Germany. (bib)
Download	Dominikus Baur, Michael Sedlmair, Raphael Wimmer, Yaxi Chen, Sara Streng, Sebastian Boring, Alexander De Luca, Andreas Butz Trends in Information Visualization Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Winter Term 2008/2009 (bib)
Download	Raphael Wimmer FlyEye: Grasp-Sensitive Surfaces Using Optical Fiber In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'10), Cambridge, MA, Jan. 2010 (bib)
2009
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Florian Schulz, Fabian Hennecke, Sebastian Boring, Heinrich Hussmann Curve: Blending Horizontal and Vertical Interactive Surfaces Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces (IEEE Tabletop 2009), Banff, Canada, Nov. 2009 (bib)
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)
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Sebastian Boring HandSense - Discriminating Different Ways of Grasping and Holding a Tangible User Interface In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'09), Cambridge, UK, Feb. 2009 (bib)
2008
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Sebastian Boring, Johannes Müller Tracking the Wiimote in 3D using ARToolkit In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'08), Munich, Germany, Sep. 2008 (bib)
Download	Sara Streng, Dominikus Baur, Gregor Broll, Alexander De Luca, Raphael Wimmer, Andreas Butz Trends in E-Learning Media Informatics Advanced Seminar, Summer Term 2008 (bib)
Download	Raphael Wimmer Using Capacitive Sensors for New Exertion Interfaces In Workshop Exertion Interfaces in conjunction with the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2008 (CHI '08), Florence, Italy, Apr 2008.See also the workshop's web site. (bib)
2007
	Raphael Wimmer Interview on Digital Fingerprinting for German IT law blog Telemedicus.info Read the interview online. (bib)
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, Albrecht Schmidt CapTable and CapShelf - Unobtrusive Activity Recognition Using Networked Capacitive Sensors In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Braunschweig, Germany, June 2007 (bib)
Download	Gregor Broll, Heinrich Hussmann, Enrico Rukzio, Raphael Wimmer Using Video Clips to Support Requirements Elicitation in Focus Groups - An Experience Report 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE 2007), Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), Hamburg, Germany, March 27, 2007
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, Albrecht Schmidt A Capacitive Sensing Toolkit for Pervasive Activity Detection and Recognition In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), New York, NY, USA, Mar. 2007 (bib)
2006
Download	Raphael Wimmer, Paul Holleis, Matthias Kranz, Albrecht Schmidt Thracker - Using Capacitive Sensing for Gesture Recognition In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC), ISBN 0-7695-2541-5 Lisbon, Portugal, July 2006 (bib)

Projects

avbParser

Max Maurer, one of my students, and I have partially reverse-engineered the .avb file format used by Avid's video editing software. Max has also written a simple parser for .avb files. You can download it from the avbParser project page.

EnterCom

In 2007 I took part in the EnterCom project sponsored by Siemens. We identified interesting developments in organizational communication.

Open Topics for Student Theses

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Supervised Theses

2009
Download	Toni Zeitler Survey and Review of Input Libraries, Frameworks, and Toolkits for Interactive Surfaces and Recommendations for the Squidy Interaction Library diploma thesis, English, 2009/04/15 - 2009/10/14, Advisor: Raphael Wimmer, (BibTex)