Peter Brandl

Die industrielle Entwicklung erfuhr in den letzten 200 Jahren eine Vielzahl an Revolutionen. Die aktuell letzte Revolution findet sich in der Entwicklung von Cyber-physischen Systemen wieder, welche auf Grund einer Zunahme an datentechnischen Anlagenvernetzungen und der daraus resultierenden Zunahme der Kommunikation zwischen den einzelnen Anlagen...

Successful worker-centered Industry 4.0 solutions depend on the maturity of the technologies supporting workers’ interaction with information systems. This paper discusses the methodology we followed while creating and updating the FACTS4WORKERS approach for monitoring available technologies together with an assessment of their readiness for being...

Arbeitsabläufe und Prozesse, sowie Maschinenanlagen gewinnen in der Industrie zunehmend an Komplexität und fordern von Service- und Instandhaltungsmitarbeiter ein umfangreiches Wissen. Der Beitrag beschreibt das im Zuge der Produktentwicklung entstehende System, um Service- und Instandhaltungsmitarbeiter unter Zuhilfenahme von „Wearables“ - im spez...

D2.2, Technology Monitoring: Report on information needed for the Industrial Challenges workers with taxonomy is part of the work in progress of “FACTorieS for WORKERS” (FACTS4WORKERS). It is the result of the execution of T2.1 in 2016. T2.1 is an activity of WP2 aiming to highlight the current state of the applicable technologies (both hardware an...

Multi-touch interaction with computationally enhanced surfaces has received considerable attention in the last few years. Approaches to the implementation of multi- touch interaction such as Frustrated Total Internal Reflec- tion (FTIR) and Diffused Illumination (DI) have allowed for the low cost construction of multi-touch interactive sur- faces,...

D2.1, Technology Monitoring: Report on Information Needed for the Industrial Challenges Workers with Taxonomy is part of the work in progress of the “FACTorieS for WORKERS” (FACTS4WORKERS) project and specifically of the T2.1 task of WP2. WP2, Worker-centric HCI/HMI Building Blocks, aims to develop (in a co-creation process with shop-floor staff) t...

Mit dem Begriff „Industrie 4.0“ werden heute die unterschiedlichsten Trends rund um die Weiterentwicklung von Produktionsstätten zusammengefasst. Ein Großteil dieser Entwicklungen wird durch die Player der IKT-Industrie forciert, und Industrie 4.0 bezeichnet damit oft nur die fortlaufende „Informatisierung“ klassischer Fabriken. Trotz dieser vorwie...

The present invention relates to a multi-touch display system that supports both multi-touch human input as well as input from a digital pen. The display system has a display panel that is configured to allow human touches along a front surface to be detected and tracked. The display panel also includes a location pattern that preferably covers the...

A collaboration system provides enhanced user interface to enable users to interact with electronic devices. In one embodiment, users can add content to a digital system by using a pen that streams coordinates so that input to the digital system may be based on conventional pen and paper handwriting. In another embodiment, a pie-based menu system i...

In this paper, we present three different ways of interrupting people to posture guidance. We developed an ergonomically adjustable office chair equipped with four sensors measuring the office worker's posture. It is important that users do some training after bad posture and be alerted of this; therefore, we implemented three different alert modal...

Multi-touch interaction with computationally enhanced surfaces has received considerable attention in recent years. Hardware implementations of multi-touch interaction such as Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) and Diffuse Illumination (DI) have allowed for the low cost development of surfaces. Although many of these technologies and assoc...

Current technological solutions that enable content creation and sharing during group discussion meetings are often cumbersome to use, and are commonly abandoned for traditional paper-based tools, which provide flexibility in supporting a wide range of working styles and task activities that may occur in a given meeting. Paper-based tools, however,...

In this paper, we present NiCEBook, a paper notebook that supports taking, structuring and reusing notes. Through a study of note-taking habits, we observed that different strategies are used to organize and share notes. Based on these observations, we developed a design for a notebook that combines different approaches to better support these acti...

DEEP SPACE is a large-scale platform for interactive, stereoscopic and high resolution content. The spatial and the system design of DEEP SPACE are facing constraints of CAVETM-like systems in respect to multi-user interactive storytelling. To be used as research platform and as public exhibition space for many people, DEEP SPACE is capable to proc...

In this paper, we describe the design of menus for multi-user digital tabletops. On direct input surfaces, occlusions created by the user's hand decrease interaction performance with menus. The key design criteria are to avoid these occlusions and to adapt the menu placement to the user's handedness and position on the tabletop. We present an adapt...

FLUX is an interactive touch-sensitive tilting surface that can be used either as a sketching board, as an interactive discussion table, and as a digital presentation whiteboard. The surface, based on a rear-projection screen, supports both multi-touch interaction as well as multiple pen interaction with individual identification of each pen. Our s...

Multi-touch interaction with computationally enhanced surfaces has received considerable attention in recent years. Hardware implementations of multi-touch interaction such as frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) and diffused illumination (DI) have allowed for the low-cost development of surfaces. Although many of these technologies and asso...

Until recently, the limitations of display and interface technologies have restricted the potential for human interaction and collaboration with computers. For example, desktop computer style interfaces have not translated well to mobile devices and static display technologies tend to leave the user one step removed from interacting with content. H...

Multi-touch interaction with computationally enhanced sur- faces has received considerable recent attention. Approaches to the implementation of multi-touch interaction such as Frustrated Total Internal Reection (FTIR) and Diused Illumination (DI) have allowed for the low cost development of such surfaces, leading to a number of technology and ap-...

IncreTable is a tabletop game inspired by the Incredible Machine. It provides a multi-modal interaction based on a bi-directional projection tabletop, digital pens, a depth camera, and custom-made physical objects, while attracting users for an active participation in creating content which diffuses the boundary between the real and virtual world.

Many research projects have demonstrated the benefits of bimanual interaction for a variety of tasks. When choosing bimanual input, system designers must select the input device that each hand will control. In this paper, we argue for the use of pen and touch two-handed input, and describe an experiment in which users were faster and committed fewe...

In this paper, we describe a paper-based interface, which combines the physical (real) with the digital world: while interacting with real paper printouts, users can seamlessly work with a digital whiteboard at the same time. Users are able to send data from a real paper to the digital world by picking up the content (e.g. images) from real printou...

INTOI is a rear-projection setup which combines accurate pen tracking with hand gesture recognition. The hardware consists of an Anoto pattern printed on a special rear-projection foil and an infrared tracking system. INTOI is a low-cost system that is scalable and provides highly accurate input (to less than 1mm). Finally, our setup supports a nov...

Interactive surfaces are becoming increasingly popular. A table/wall setting provides a large in-teractive visual surface for groups to interact to-gether. After describing the user requirements, we demonstrate different possible solutions for both the display and the tracking implementation. We propose an easy-to-implement solution for track-ing l...

The Shared Design Space is a novel interface for enhancing face-to- face collaboration using multiple displays and input surfaces. The system supports natural gestures and paper-pen input and overcomes the limitations of using traditional technology in co-located meetings and brainstorming activities.

Collaborative Augmented Reality (AR) setups are becoming increasingly popular. We have developed a collaborative tabletop environment that is designed for brainstorming and discussion meetings. Using a digital pen, participants can annotate not only virtual paper, but also real printouts. By integrating both forms of physical and digital paper, we...