Florian Michahelles

• Dr. sc. techn.
• Professor (Full) at TU Wien

Climate change communication demands narratives that resonate widely. ”Carbon Rebellion,” an Interactive Digital Narrative, exemplifies this by blending personal anecdotes with data-driven content, fostering deep engagement. This research highlights the power of narratives in articulating the gravity of climate change, emphasizing the need for coll...

Lessons learned and ongoing research on bicycle and motorcycle simulators for an open discussion of issues still to be solved at the time of the workshop.

Thanks to the advances in communication technologies, the costs of connecting to our beloved ones over distance have become negligible. The provision of bandwidth, access to connectivity, and integration of cameras into almost any mobile device allows us to perceive what is happening with our communication counterparts visually. The emergence of te...

The paper investigates the usage of AR-based systems in teaching manual skills. We propose Skillab, a novel AR-based scaffolding system. It aids in the learning of manual work and functions as a multimodal immersive tool for feedback, including muscle actuation. As our initial investigation, we made a floor lamination tutorial. We evaluated our sys...

We investigate how the use of haptic feedback through electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) can improve collision-avoidance in a robot teleoperation scenario. Background: Collision-free robot teleoperation requires extensive situation awareness by the operator. This is difficult to achieve purely visually when obstacles can exist outside of the robot...

Recently, researchers have proposed to develop automated self-balancing functions for bicycles to increase road safety and convenience. However, no study has investigated how self-balancing bicycles are perceived by potential users in a natural urban environment. Therefore, we conducted a field study using a modified "parent-child tandem" in which...

As collaborative robots enter industrial shop floors, logistics, and manufacturing, rapid and flexible evaluation of human-machine interaction has become more important. The availability of consumer headsets for virtual and augmented realities has lowered the barrier of entry for virtual environments. In this paper, we explore the different aspects...

Bicycle simulators are becoming an increasingly used research tool. However, due to the complex cycling dynamics, these simulators have issues of simulator sickness and perceived realism. A potential method to address these issues could be providing a motion-based tilting function. Some bicycle simulators with tilt functionality have already been p...

Research in human-robot collaboration explores aspects of using interaction modalities and their effect on human perception. Particular attention is paid to intent communication, which is essential for successful interaction and collaboration. This work investigates the effect of using audio, visual, and haptic feedback on intent communication in a...

The increasing capabilities of Artificial Intelligence enable the support of users in a continuously growing number of applications. Current systems typically dictate that interaction between user input and AI output unfolds in discrete steps, as is the case with, for example, conversational agents. Novel scenarios require AI systems to adapt and r...

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) provides multiple interaction possibilities in various fields. It may transmit object affordances, user motions or give rich haptic feedback by adjusting stimulation settings, especially in virtual worlds. Parameters necessary to accept EMS, impacting how users perceive the technology, are yet not thoroughly stud...

Although cycling is a promising transport modality for the future, cyclists could not substantially benefit from the safety gain in the last decades. To improve cycling safety and convenience, as well as extending the user base, we proposed to develop a self-balancing, assisted, and connected bicycle that transfers several assistance functions from...

The articles in this special section illustrates the wide range of ways in which pervasive fabrication technologies can contribute to producing physical artifacts that fulfill user needs in a more tailored and customized way than today’s mass production does. At the same time, they provide a glimpse of the future, where technology-informed and tech...

Personal fabrication is celebrating technological break-throughs that will enable us to easily generate new physical forms and shapes. It democratizes the capability of building physical things and may usher in the era of physical natives. Stefanie Mueller and Patrick Baudisch critically review the state of the art and speculate on the future use a...

Advances in digital fabrication have simultaneously created new capabilities while reinforcing outdated workflows that constrain how, and by whom, these fabrication tools are used. In this paper, we investigate how a new class of hybrid-controlled machines can collaborate with novice and expert users alike to yield a more lucid making experience. W...

The industrial domain offers a high degree of standardization, a variety of very specialized use cases, and an abundance of resources. These characteristics provide perfect conditions for Digital Companion systems. A Digital Companion is a cognitive agent that assists human users by taking on three roles: as guardians, assistants or mentors, and pa...

With head-mounted displays (HMDs), users can access and interact with a broad range of applications and data. Although some of this information is privacy-sensitive or even confidential, no intuitive, unobtrusive and secure authentication technique is available yet for HMDs. We present LookUnlock, an authentication technique for HMDs that uses pass...

For a long time, the Internet of Things initiative was driven by academics-developing embedded hardware, sensing algorithms, network protocols, software frameworks, applications, business scenarios, and interaction paradigms. Only recently industrial stakeholders realized the unparalleled potential of these technologies, instigating a paradigm shif...

Computing evolution has brought about multiple paradigm shifts in how we use technologies. In the living laboratory that is modern life, our ability to design and control the computers and computing power of the future will require an ability to program systems and applications in situ and in vivo.

Today's industrial jobs require a skilled and trained workforce as tasks such as maintenance, service, and repair are becoming more complicated and more demanding. Therefore, both education and training for executing these tasks are becoming more important. Usually training is conducted on-site at designated training facilities with physical hardwa...

Semantic technologies are a powerful tool able to give meaning to flat data by creating ontologies that link information systems that live separately, but which complement each other in order to provide a common understanding of a domain. However, these technologies are also often seen as difficult to profit from due to their limited availability t...

Augmented Reality (AR) is becoming more and more popular and many applications across multiple domains are developed on AR hardware such as the Microsoft HoloLens or similar Head-Mounted Displays (HMD). Most of the AR applications are visualizing information that was not visible before and enable interaction with this information using voice input,...

Production processes in factories increasingly involve dynamic interactions between individual manufacturing devices that allow processes to evolve and enable rapid reconfigurations for the mass-customization of products. When participating machines start to be aware of their own functionality, processes can even be dynamically reconfigured at run...

With the advent of digitalization in industrial settings, referred to as Industry 4.0, more and more machine data is being collected and analyzed during a machine's life cycle. The availability to leverage machine data allows the concept of the Digital Twin. The more data that is collected the more statistically relevant and reliable the digital re...

Humans and machines work closer together as never before. Whether it is about sensors to expand humans' sensorium, exo-skeletons augmenting physical capabilities, augmented and digital worlds breaking with physical boundaries, or curated digital memories: the value of all these technologies rises and falls with their ability to synchronize with the...

The 6th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2016) showed clear departure from the research on data acquisition and sensor management presented at previous series of this conference. Learn about this year's move toward more commercially applicable implementations and cross-domain applications.

Florian Michahelles posted an online survey with questions about the meaning of IoT, who is in control, what's in store for jobs, and whether IoT is good or evil. Learn how readers responded to these questions.

Welcome to this inaugural department focused on the Internet of Things! Learn how IoT got started, what's ahead, and how IoT News can help you stay on top of emerging developments in this growing field as it moves beyond its visionary promises.

This article introduces the Open Semantic Framework (OSF), a one-stop shop for creating and deploying semantic applications as well as their lifecycle management. The authors discuss how the OSF supports knowledge acquisition into semantic knowledge models via novel interface technologies, manages these models internally within core ontologies and...

Giving expert advice to workers from a remote location is a valuable ability. Giving expert advice effectively and precisely is even more valuable. This paper describes a possible solution for the support of on-site workers by remote experts during non-routine maintenance tasks. The approach brings the collaboration between on-site workers and remo...

In this paper, we present the application of an automatic service composition system in the context of collaborative industrial manufacturing. We discuss how our system could support a production-as-a-service paradigm and present the architecture we created to realize this potential. The basis of our approach are embedded semantic descriptions of a...

EPC-based information sharing networks are a global effort to standardize the supply chainwide exchange of operational trace data. Due to the complex nature of supply chains and different information sharing relationships, security is a critical issue. Prior research and end-user feedback suggest that there is currently a limited understanding of h...

Web and semantic technologies will form the foundation for ecosystems of machines that interact with each other and with people as never before.

Occupational accidents cause physical harm to impacted employees and financial harm to employers. The most effective protection against occupational accidents is the proper usage of personal protective equipment (PPE). A huge variety of wearable sensors is available for different purposes, they have already proven their potential to support persona...

The adoption of NFC technology has taken longer than expected after its inception in 2004. Several projects on ticketing and payment are gaining momentum. However, the actual state of adoption of NFC is still unclear. As an alternative to consultants? prediction (which mostly prove wrong), this paper describes a gamification-based approach to motiv...

Large-scale research has gained momentum in the context of Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (Mobile HCI), as many aspects of mobile app usage can only be evaluated in the real world. In this chapter, we present findings on the challenges of research in the large via app stores, in conjunction with selected data collection methods (logging, self-re...

Obesity is a global issue and has a direct impact on the public and private healthcare system. In this paper we describe the design and evaluation of a novel mobile health application that supports obese children and their parents to improve their nutrition intake. First results from quantitative app usage logs, questionnaires and interviews indica...

Wearables are becoming the next Big Thing, and it is clear that they will become increasingly integrated into the Web of Things, instead of just being standalone resources that are not linked into the Web. Such a Web of Wearables will make wearables as easily accessible as other Web resources, allowing new classes of applications and systems to use...

Mobile payment adoption remains low. This paper presents a user-study that evaluates whether providing digital receipts in-store to customers could drive mobile payment adoption. Our results reveal that although our smart phone based payment and digital receipt processes took up to 60% longer than getting paper receipts and paying with cash, users...

Social networks have become an additional marketing channel that could be integrated with the traditional ones as a part of the marketing mix. The change in the dynamics of the marketing interchange between companies and consumers as introduced by social networks has placed a focus on the non-transactional customer behavior. In this new marketing e...

The main goal of this workshop is to explore how pervasive technologies can be integrated into today's brick and mortar retail environments to enhance the overall retail experience. Therefore we want to bring together researchers and industry partners to explore not only customer orientated technologies and services but also how those technologies...

Social media have transformed the traditional marketing communication, resulting in companies evolving their customer approach and integrating social media into their marketing strategies. Although numerous examples of using social media platforms for marketing purposes exist, and despite the various efforts from the companies and the general popul...

Numerous projects have investigated assistive navigation technologies for the blind community, tackling challenges ranging from interface design to sensory substitution. However, none of these have successfully integrated what we consider to be the three ...

The global trade item number (GTIN) is traditionally used to identify trade items and look up corresponding information within industrial supply chains. Recently, consumers have also started using GTINs to access additional product information with mobile barcode scanning applications. Providers of these applications use different sources to provid...

Ubiquitous computing technologies enable new in situ data-collection opportunities that can reveal insights into mobile users' behaviors and preferences.

Today, many areas in the Alps, despite the high altitude and distance from urbanized environments, offer ubiquitous mobile phone and data connectivity, with 3G networks widely available. Many skiing resorts have recognized their users' desire for connectivity, and some even provide free Wi-Fi hotspots at cable car stations and restaurants. Furtherm...

Distributions of popularity of many online markets have long tails. However, the profitability of the long tail remains in dispute among researchers. With an analysis of an extensive dataset of Google Play transactions, this work first examine the long tail of the mobile application market. Our results suggest that Google Play is more of a "Superst...

The adoption of NFC technology has taken longer than expected after its inception in 2004. Several projects on ticketing and payment are gaining momentum. However, the actual state of adoption of NFC is still unclear. As an alternative to consultants' prediction (which mostly prove wrong), this paper describes a gamification-based approach to motiv...

Social networks provide the technological platform for individuals to connect, produce and share content online. As such, they are becoming an additional marketing channel that could be integrated with the traditional ones as a part of the marketing mix. In order to contribute to the companies' understanding of utilisation of social networks as a m...

Internet of Things: Converging Technologies for Smart Environments and Integrated Ecosystems Dr. Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF, Norway; Dr. Peter Friess, EU, Belgium Mário Campolargo, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Belgium “IoT will boost the economy while improving our citizens’ lives.” Analysts predict that new Internet of Things (IoT) products and...

We evaluate a mobile application that assesses driving behavior based on in-vehicle acceleration measurements and gives corresponding feedback to drivers. In the insurance business, such applications have recently gained traction as a viable alternative to the monitoring of drivers via "black boxes" installed in vehicles, which lacks interaction op...

Physical products, things, and appliances will be associated with digital counterparts, such as additional product information, instructions, API's, etc.. Thus, it will become challenging for users to consciously manage access rights of data of their objects and stay aware of which data is visible to whom. This paper proposes to transfer the notion...

Scanning parts of paper-based information can be time-consuming and disrupt the user's workflow. Accordingly, we investigate the performance and usability of a computer mouse with document scanning capabilities, referred to as scan mouse. We set up a user study with 20 users scanning parts of paper documents using the scan mouse, a personal desktop...

Social media has changed the way content is generated on the web. Rather than being just passive consumers, users became active participants by sharing information, experiences and opinions with each other. In parallel, with the continuous growth of the number of smartphone users, brand owners are being faced with the challenge of integration of so...

This talk presents the examination of the long tail of sales distribution in mobile app market. With the analysis of a large data set of transactions in Android Market, our research suggests that, rather than being a "Long Tail" market where unpopular niche products aggregately contribute to substantial portion of sales, the Android Market is more...

Mobile HCI studies are often conducted in a highly controlled environment and with a small convenient sample. The findings cannot always be generalized to the behaviour of real users in real contexts. In contrast, researchers recently started to use apps and other wide distribution channels as an apparatus for mobile HCI research. Publishing apps i...

Mobile shopping applications for smartphones are popular among consumers. While mobile commerce research has focused on experimental prototypes and evaluation in small groups, only little is known about the real-world usage of these applications. Established tools and methods for analysis are missing. In this paper, we present the usage analysis of...

Near-field Communication (NFC) technology finally starts to proliferate on modern smartphones, enabling researchers to conduct research in the real world. The research question for this work is to learn about the distribution of NFC tags in the wild. As there is, for good and for bad, no central registry or database of NFC tags, we propose a game-b...

Digital market places (e.g. Apple App Store, Google Play) have become the dominant platforms for the distribution of software for mobile phones. Thereby, developers can reach millions of users. However, neither of these market places today has mechanisms in place to enforce security critical updates of distributed apps. This paper investigates this...

This paper provides an extended abstract. The full paper is currently under review for Electronic Markets journal.

Retailers and brands are just starting to utilize online social media to support their businesses. Simultaneously, public displays are becoming ubiquitous in public places, raising the question about how these two technologies could be used together to attract new and existing customers as well as strengthen the relationship toward a focal brand. A...

Benefits and opportunities of NFC technology have been discussed for many years. Continuous promises of handset manufacturers to embed this technology into their series of devices anytime soon have been fulfilled only partly so far. Contrasting with that, research and practice have outlined a number of applications that yield great attention among...

The public nature of user generated content on social media platforms offers the possibility for trend monitoring as an insight into the topics that attract the attention of a large fraction of users. While Google Trends and Twitter have already been recognized as a valuable source of trend information by the practitioners and scholars, at the mome...

Ubiquitous and wearable computing are still in their infancy concerning convincing application scenarios or even real world applica-tions. HCI offers a range of methods to design applications involving users in various stages of the process. In this paper, however, we argue that focusing on the user too much may even hinder to introduce radi-cally...

Social networks are becoming an additional marketing channel that could be integrated with the traditional ones as a part of the marketing mix. However, traditional advertising techniques are not applicable for the social media platforms, resulting in companies experimenting with many different approaches, thus shaping a successful social media str...

Social networks have become an additional marketing channel that could be integrated with the traditional ones, such as news and television media, as well as online channels. User participation as a main feature of the social networks imposes challenges to the traditional one-way marketing, resulting in companies experimenting with many different a...

It is our great pleasure to present the ISMAR Workshops and Tutorials. The Workshops associated with ISMAR 2011 feature a specific range of topics beyond the main conference tracks to better cover specific research areas in the exciting field of Mixed and Augmented Reality.

With the proliferation of digital signage in the retail environment and the simultaneous rise in social networks, a new opportunity presents itself to show social network comments in stores. This chapter provides an overview of social networks and its relation to word-of-mouth marketing and will then apply these concepts to the role of social netwo...

In this paper we develop a method and relevant feature constructs for the measurement of accident risk exposure from a large sample of real-world GPS data that includes accident and accident-free drivers. For trip frequency and accumulated driven distance features, an evaluation of their discriminatory power is given based on computational results....

Mobile shopping assistants have been subject to research in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computing for many years. Now the wide adoption of mobile shopping applications for smartphones allows evaluation on a large scale. To study how consumers actually use these applications, we analyze server logs of a mobile bargain finder application fo...

Social networks have changed the way information is delivered to the customers, shifting from traditional one-to-many to one-to-one communication. Opinion mining and sentiment analysis offer the possibility to understand the user-generated comments and explain how a certain product or a brand is perceived. Classification of different types of conte...

The workshop on mobile interaction in retail environments (MIRE) brings together researchers and practitioners from academy and industry to explore how mobile phones and mobile interaction can be embedded in retail environments to create new shopping experiences and mobile enhanced services.

Barcode scanners for smartphones enable mobile product-centric services for consumers. We have developed a mobile app that enables consumers to share their use of and opinions about products with their friends and others. Our goal is to establish a product-centric information stream generated by users to benefit other consumers and retail businesse...

Many of the initial developments towards the Internet of Things have focused on the combination of Auto-ID and networked infrastructures in businessto- business logistics and product life cycle applications. However, a future Internet of Things can provide a broader vision and also enable everyone to access and contribute rich information about thi...

Today, there are many end-user programming tools available, but in the Internet of Things domain, this concept is relatively new. Some pioneer examples include solutions, such as d.tools and Pachube, but also Web2.0, Mash-ups, Twitter and Facebook are suitable backplanes for this kind of applications. Another level of development support is various...

Covering both passive and active RFID systems, the challenges to RFID implementation are addressed using specific industry research examples and common integration issues. Key topics include RF tag performance optimization, evaluation methodologies for RFID and Real-Time-Location Systems (RTLS) and sensors, EPC network simulation, RFID in the retai...

Context-aware information is widely available in various ways such as interaction patterns, location, devices, annotations, query suggestions and user profiles and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval performance and recommendation results. At the moment, the main issue to cope with is not only recommending or retrieving the...

It is our great pleasure to present the ISMAR Workshops and Tutorials. The Workshops associated with ISMAR 2011 feature a specific range of topics beyond the main conference tracks to better cover specific research areas in the exciting field of Mixed and Augmented Reality.