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Graphical

Desktop Information Foraging

The aim of this project is to provide knowledge workers from different domains with a visual information foraging environment to increase their productivity when collecting and making sense of digital information on the computer desktop.

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Illustrative

Illustrative Visualization of Physiological Processes

As part of this larger project, we are exploring highlighting and narrative visualization techniques to guide the user's attention through a series of biochemical reactions.

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Visual

Visual Links

Visual links connect related pieces of information across application windows and thereby guide the user's attention to relevant information.

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Importance-driven

Importance-Driven Compositing Window Management

Importance-driven compositing window management does not consider windows as basic rectangular shapes, but also integrates the importance of the windows' content to optimize the amount of important information on the screen.

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Deskotheque

Deskotheque

The multi-display environment Deskotheque combines personal and tiled projected displays into a continuous teamspace. Its main distinguishing factor is a fine-grained spatial (i.e., both geometric and topological) model of the display layout.

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Mouse

Cross-display mouse pointer navigation

Cross-display mouse pointer navigation techniques are automatically configured based on a spatial model of the display environment.

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Multi-Projector

Multi-Projector Displays

A geometry-adaptive calibration and rendering application for multi-planar surfaces which applies warping and alpha blending to an unmodified X desktop, implemented as plugin for an existing 3D hardware-accelerated compositing window manager.

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Optical

Optical Magic Lenses

A novel approach of the magic lens user interface metaphor for large-scale projector-based displays

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Tangible

Tangible Tiles

Tangible User Interface: Transparent tiles are used to either contain/represent or manipulate projected data on the table. A user study was conducted to evaluate the usability of the system.

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Neon

Neon Racer

Multi-user Augmented Reality (AR) racing game on a tabletop setup.

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Mock-up

Olympia - Virtual Reality Museum Exhibit Prototype

Concept and prototype of a virtual time journey to the antique Olympic Games: the user is able to influence the virtual scene on a panorama projection system using a trackball and a touchscreen user interface.

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SOLIS

SOLIS

Sonic Light Space: Distributed multimedia installation tracking people using pressure sensors and DMX / MIDI for controlling light and sound.

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Manuela Waldner 2004 - 2011