
Selected Projects

OntoSketch (Video/Publication)

SketchViz (Video/ Publication)

Natural Interface Exploration (Video/ Studiowebsite)

The Kneaddable Computer (Future Vision Video)
Selected Projects
OntoSketch (Video/Publication)
SketchViz (Video/ Publication)
Natural Interface Exploration (Video/ Studiowebsite)
The Kneaddable Computer (Future Vision Video)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Medieninformatik
Mar. 2017 – now |
Professor Media Computer Science FH Dresden |
Okt. 2014 – now |
Founder »Mind-Objects GmbH« Mind-Objects is a software to support visual thinking. Digitalize your workshops! Capture, structure and share your thoughts effortless - with no space restrictions! www.mind-objects.com Initially funded by an EXIST Business Start-Up Grant. |
Jan. 2014 – July 2014 |
Research and Teaching Assistant Organisation of »OUTPUT.DD« – a forum for companies, researchers and students at the faculty of computer science. |
Aug. 2013 – Dec. 2013 |
Research Associate in the project »open4INNOVATION« The aim of the project open4INNOVATION is to identify the processes, which allows for an improved knowledge creation and transfer, especially in the field of IT. |
Aug. 2010 – July 2013 |
Research and Teaching Assistant "Visualization Methods for Interactive Gathering and Structuring of Information in the Context of Knowledge Modeling" – a Ph.D. research project in cooperation between industry and academia. The partner from industry for this research is the User Experience Lab at SAP Research. The academic partner is the Chair of Media Design at Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden), Germany. This research project (contract no. 080951799) has been funded by the European Social Fond and the Free State of Saxony as well as SAP Research. Focus of the project is to support information creation, collection and organization in sensemaking tasks using digital and tangible prototypes. |
Feb. 2009 – July 2010 |
Research Associate in the project »OUTPUT 4 Business« Industry meets Science - co-operative project between TU Dresden (Chairs of Media Design and Software Engineering) and Dresden University of Applied Sciences (Chair of Computer Graphics) as well as several partners from local industry. This project advanced the transfer of technology and knowledge between academic research and local industry to more efficient economic exploitation. |
2003 – Jan. 2009 |
IT-Consulting and Design, Steph & Stef GmbH & Co. KG. |
2003 – Jan. 2009 |
Freelance User Experience Consultant interaction and interface design for small and medium-sized companies. |
April 2008 – July 2008 |
Internship T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH Internship at the business unit „Experience Design & Emerging Technologies”. |
Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2015 |
Dr.-Ing. Medieninformatik at TU Dresden, Chair for Media Design, Dresden, Germany. Title of Ph.D. thesis: "Visualization Methods for Interactive Gathering and Structuring of Information in the Context of Knowledge Modeling" |
Sep. 2001 – Feb. 2009 |
Diplom-Medieninformatiker TU Dresden, Germany. Major subject: technology, design and science of digital media. Final research-oriented thesis (6 months, in collaboration with a partner from industry: T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH): „Conceptual Design of a System Aiding Visually During the Process of Information-Gathering while Solving Complex Web Information Tasks“. Minor subject: arts and design (part-time at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts). Degree in minor subject, arts and design, thesis topic: „Festive Culture in the Great Garden at the Time of Augustus II the Strong". |
Aug. 2010 – July 2013 |
Interactive Visualization Methods for Structuring Information in the Context of Sensemaking and Knowledge Modeling Ph.D. research project, acquired third-party-funds for this project (contract no. 080951799) from the European Social Fond and the Free State of Saxony as well as SAP Research. |
Sep. 2013 |
Best Demo Award The demo “OntoSketch“ (part of Ph.D. project) was voted the most innovative at the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria 2013. |
Sep. 2012 |
Best Demo Award The demo “SketchViz“ (part of Ph.D. project) was voted the most innovative at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria 2012. |
April 2012 |
Dresden Design Hub “Collaborative Ecosystems” Initiating, organizing and co-guiding an interdisciplinary workshop named „Dresden Design Hub“ together with Parsons New School for Design, New York as well as TU Dresden (Chair of Media Design, Junior Professorship for Industrial Design Engineering, Center for Knowledge Architecture). “Collaborative Ecosystems” was a two-week workshop at TU Dresden that investigated academic collaboration and the impact of technology on research, exchange, and learning. Through a set of focused workshops, skill sharing seminars, hack-a-thons, and exercises exploring systems of collaboration and technology, the following question was investigated: what does the global, collaborative classroom look like? The outcome was a series of applications and interfaces designed by cross-disciplinary teams that facilitate academic collaboration in research and scholarship-based activities for universities and organizations, as well as concepts for communicating academic research results to the public. |
Dec. 2011 |
User Experience Next Generation SAP in Palo Alto (USA) at business division „User Experience - Business Objects” and „User Experience Next Generation“: giving a talk and hands-on workshop regarding: „Nature Inspired Interface Design“. |
Nov. 2011 |
Parsons New School for Design in New York Initiating a collaborative student exchange program for a summer school between TU Dresden, Germany and Parsons New School for Design, New York. |
Affiliations |
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Wir Gestalten Dresden |
(Branchenverband der Dresdner Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft e.V.), 2016 gewählter Aufsichtsrat für die Branche: Software-/ Gamesindustrie. |
German Informatics Society |
(Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.), Founding member of the section “Tangible Interaction” (German: Be-greifbare Interaktion) – an interdisciplinary group including: design, psychology, social and media science, medicine, engineering and computer science. This group meets two times a year and offers a forum for German speaking members of the international Community for Tangible and Embedded Interaction. |
Technical Visualistics |
(German: Technische Visualistik). Founding member of the working group Technical Visualistics and organizer of the related workshop series. This is a German speaking network of research institutes, companies, museums and libraries mostly coming from Saxony, Germany. It is an interdisciplinary network, working in the fields of visualization and user experience regarding information systems. |
Administrative Experience |
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Dec. 2009 – April 2012 |
Representative for mid-level faculty in the institutional board of the Institute of Software and Multimedia Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden. |
Editor |
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2012 |
Co-Editor for the journal (i-com), special edition “Tangible Interaction” (German: “Be-Greifbare Interaktion”). |
Chair | |
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2013 |
German HCI conference (Mensch & Computer): co-chair and reviewer for the video track on future HCI systems, 2013. |
2011 |
Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. |
Program Committee Member / Reviewer |
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2016 |
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2015 |
VOILA 2015: Visualizations and User Interfaces for Ontologies and Linked Data HSWI 2015: Workshop on Human-Semantic Web Interaction (HSWI’15) |
2014 |
TEI 2015: 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction HSWI2014: Workshop on Human-Semantic Web Interaction (HSWI’14) SEMANTiCS 2014: 10th International Conference on Semantic Systems BGI-Workshop 2014: Workshop "Be-greifbare Interaktion" (e.g. Tangible Interaction)at the conference "Mensch & Computer 2014" |
2013 |
CHI Workshop: Blended Interaction: Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Workshop: Blended Interaction - Envisioning Future Collaborative Interactive Spaces.
Mensch & Computer, Workshop: Tangible Interaction (German: Be-Greifbare Interaktion), Bremen, Germany. |
2012 |
Journal (i-com), special edition “Tangible Interaction” (German: “Be-Greifbare Interaktion”). The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. |
2011 |
IEEE Africon. |
Book Chapters |
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2011 |
Georg Freitag, Marius Brade: Interaktionsdesign für das Recherchieren mit mobilen Endgeräten, In: Wieder mehr Sehen! - Aktuelle Einblicke in die Technische Visualistik, Groh, Rainer und Zavesky, Martin (Hrsg.), TUDpress Verlag der Wissenschaft, Dresden, 2011. |
Talks at Conferences |
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2015 |
Gestaltungsempfehlungen für menschzentrierte Werkzeuge zum Erfassen und Strukturieren von Informationen, 17. Kongress für Wissensmanagement, Social Collaboration und Industrie 4.0, 2015, Hanau, Germany. |
Visual Requirements Engineering (talk in German: Visuelle Anforderungsmodellierung), GI Multikonferenz: Software Engineering & Management 2015, Dresden, Germany. |
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Wie kann Anforderungserhebung mit mobilen Geräten unterstützt werden? UX-Gestaltung mobiler Anwendungen für den Einsatz während Gesprächen. GI Conference: Mensch und Computer 2015, Stuttgart, Germany. |
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2013 |
OntoSketch: Towards Digital Sketching as a Tool for Creating and Extending Ontologies for Non-Experts, 13th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, 2013, Graz, Austria. |
2012 |
Using the power of associations: BrainDump - a Revised Nature Inspired Visual Interface for Sensemaking, ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2012, Capri, Italy. |
2011 |
Getting a Picture of Your Thoughts: Interactive Visualization for Creative Work, 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, Graduate Student Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Using affordances of materials from daily life for interaction design, talk in German (Nutzung inhärenter Interaktionsangebote von Substanzen des Alltags), workshop Be-greifbare Interkation (Tangible Interaction), Mensch & Computer 2011, Chemnitz, Germany. An Interface for Visual Information-Gathering During Web Browsing Sessions: BrainDump - A Versatile Visual Workspace for Memorizing and Organizing Information, Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, Le Gosier, France, 2011. |
2009 |
Visual systems to support complex web information tasks, talk in German (Visuelles Memorieren in der Datenflut des Internets), World Usability Day, Dresden, Germany. |
Talks and Lectures |
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2012 |
Interaction Design and Visualization regarding Industrial Information Management, invited talk in German (Interaktionsdesign und Visualisierung für das Informationsmanagement im Unternehmen), BMW-Innovation, Munich, Germany. Tanglible Interation – an Overview About Current Research Results, lecture in German (Be-greifbare Interaktion - ein Überblick aktueller Forschungsergebnisse), lecture in German, series Dies Academicus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Digital Tools for Sensemaking Tasks – Visual Support for Creating, Gathering and Strukturing of Information, talk in German (Werkzeuge für stetig veränderliche Aufgaben -Visuelle, digitale Unterstützung beim Kreieren, Sammeln und Strukturieren von Informationen), event series Runder Tisch Technische Visualistik, SAP AG, Dresden, Germany. Challenges and Principles of Visual Real-time Support of Sensemaking, talk in German (Probleme und Prinzipien der visuellen Echtzeitunterstützung bei der Sinnerschließung), workshop Qualitative Methods, Department Media Design, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. |
2011 |
Picturing Your Thoughts: How Eggs, Rice, Coffee and Bubbles can inspire Interactive Visualization, talk and hands-on workshop, business unit User Experience Design, SAP AG, Palo Alto, San Francisco, USA. Interface Design for Information Management Systems, Institute of Automation, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Versatile Visual Workspaces for Memorizing and Organizing Information, LMU Munich, Institute for Informatics, Munich, Germany. Visualization for Mnemonics: Getting From an Idea to a Prototype, invited lecture in German (Memorative Visualisierung: Von der Idee zum Prototyp), as part of lecture series Human-Computer-Systems, University of Würzburg, Germany. Visual Sensemaking, Institute of Software- and Multimedia-Technology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. Nature Inspired Interface Design, Speakers Corner, OFFF, 2011 OFFF: A post-digital culture festival, Barcelona, Spain. |
2010 |
Visualization Methods to Support Complex Web Information Tasks, invited talk, University of Konstanz, Graduate Program Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces, Konstanz, Germany. |
Organized Workshops |
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2013 |
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Natural Interface Exploration, Studio at ACM Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Barcelona, Spain. Studio-Website. |
2012 |
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Interface Exploration (2 days, in German), invited workshop, Chair of Psychological Ergonomics, University of Würzburg. |
Organized Exhibitions / Events |
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2009 - 2014 |
AG Technische Visualistik: series of events “Round Table - Technical Visualistics” (German: Runder Tisch - Technische Visualistik), 2 - 3 times a year with approximately 50-70 participants. |
2009 / 2010 / 2014 |
Organisation of »OUTPUT.DD« – a forum for companies, researchers and students at the faculty of computer science at TU Dresden |