Teaching
DECO2102 Interactive Multimedia Design
DECO2200 Interaction Design Studio
2009 website
DECO3005 Advanced Interaction Design (formerly Advanced Interactive Multimedia Design)
2009 website 2010 website
DECO3100 Information Visualisation Studio (coordinator, semester1 2010)
2010 website
IDEA9105 Human Computer Interaction
2009 website 2010 website
Events
Sydney Design: Electronic Media Arts Workshop
2009 website
Research interests
Interactive technologies for everyday life
User-centred design for development (UCD4D)
Media facades and interactive architecture
Research students
Stefan Bachl // Visiting Master Student (DECO) // Challenges for Designing the User Experience of Mulitouch Interactions // 2010, ongoing.
Jessie Pei-Hong Hsu // Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts (Honours) // Investigating the relationship between direct feedback, behaviour change and decrease of carbon emission through the exploration and development of urban displays // ongoing.
Mandy Leung // Bachelor of Design Computing (Honours) // Experiments on and evaluations of externalised visualisation of personal life logs // ongoing.
Athony Milou // MPhil student (Associate Supervisor) // Play Engines: Search Engine Alternative for Knowledge Augmentation in Design Education // 2008, ongoing.
Nikash Singh // Bachelor of Design Computing (Honours) // Designing and evaluating a human-centred browser extension to ease online interaction // completed November 2009.
Nikash Singh // PhD student // Design Principles for Future Web Interfaces // 2010, ongoing.
Philip Staud // Visiting Master Student (DECO) // From your vision to your very next task: a software tool to bridge the gap between personal long-term effectivity and short-term efficiency // 2009, ongoing.
Other
Founding member of ICT4D.at - the Austrian network for information and communication technologies for development
ict4d.at
Honorary member of DECO @ INSO - my former research group in Vienna, Austria
deco.inso.tuwien.ac.at
Committee member of AIS08 - the Ambient Information Systems Workshop at Ubicomp 2008
ambientinformation.org
Editorial review board member for the International Journal of Handheld Computing Research
(IJHCR)
Editorial advisory board member for the International Journal of ICT Research and Development in Africa
(IJICTRDA)
Recent publications
Schlögl, R., Tomitsch, M., Wimmer, C., Grechenig, T., and Kappel, K. (2009). Audio-tactile location markers: accessible real-world tagging for the blind. IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands (US), ACTA Press.
Konzett, M., Tomitsch, M., and Grechenig, T. (2009). Designing an SMS-based application for seaweed farmers in Zanzibar and why it failed for now. INTERACT 2009 Workshop on Ethics, Roles & Relationships in Interaction Design in Developing Regions, Uppsala, Sweden, 2 pages.
Wimmer, C., Tomitsch, M., and Grechenig, T. (2009). Evaluating the usability of one-dimensional fisheye lists for desktop interfaces. IADIS conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Algarve, Portugal, 5 pages.
Tomitsch, M., Schlögl, R., Grechenig, T., Wimmer, C. and Költringer, T. (2008). Accessible Real-World Tagging through Audio-Tactile Location Markers. In Proceedings of the Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction (NordiCHI'08), Lund, Sweden, ACM Press, 4 pages.
Tomitsch, M., Grechenig, T., Vande Moere, A. and Sheldon, R. (2008). Information Sky: Exploring Ceiling-based Data Representations. IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'08), London, UK, 100-105.
Tomitsch, M., Grechenig, T and Mayrhofer, S. (2007). Mobility and Emotional Distance: Exploring the Ceiling as an Ambient Display to provide Remote Awareness. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE'07), Ulm, Germany, 164-167.
Tomitsch, M. and Grechenig, T. (2007). Reaching for the Ceiling: Exploring Modes of Interaction. Adjunct Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp'07), Innsbruck, Austria, 268-271.
Leitner, M., Tomitsch, M., Költringer K., Kappel, K. and Grechenig, T. (2007). Designing Tangible Tabletop Interfaces for Patients in Rehabilitation. In Proceedings of the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technology for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments (CVHI 07), Granada, Spain, 6 pages.
Tomitsch, M., Kappel, K., Lehner, A. and Grechenig, T. (2007). Towards A Taxonomy For Ambient Information Systems. Workshop on the Issues of Designing and Evaluating Ambient Information Systems, co-located with the International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive'07), Toronto, Canada, 42-47.
Tomitsch, M., Grechenig, T. and Wascher, P. (2006). Personal and Private Calendar Interfaces support Private Patterns: e.g. Diaries, Relations, Emotional Expressions. In Proceedings of the Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction (NordiCHI'06), Oslo, Norway, ACM Press, 401-404.
Tomitsch, M., Grechenig, T., Kappel, K., and Költringer, T. (2006). Experiences from Designing a Tangible Musical Toy. In Proceedings of the International Conference for Interaction Design and Children (IDC'06), Tampere, Finland, ACM Press, 169-170.
Költringer, T., Tomitsch, M., Kappel, K., Kalbeck, D., and Grechenig, T. (2005). Implications for Designing the User Experience of DVD Menus. In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'05), Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1565-1568.
