Christian Winkler joined the HCI Group in September 2010. Prior to that, he worked as a developer for online services in an agency and in the Pervasive Computing group at the University of Duisburg-Essen under the Head of Office of Prof Albrecht Schmidt. In 2011 he worked for a while as a research assistant and then as a consultant for Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.

Christian holds a B.Sc. in Media Informatics & Design (2007) from the University of Bielefeld and an M.Sc. in Applied Computer Science - Systems Engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen (2010). The title of his master's thesis was: SENSE-SATION: An Extensible Platform for the Integration of Phones into the Web (see publications).

Projects

Courses

Food

• Pervasive Computing - SS 2010
• Pervasive Case Studies - SS 2010
• User Interface Engineering 1 - WS 2010/11
• Pervasive Computing - SS 2011
• User Interface Engineering 2 - WS 2011/12

Ulm

• Human-Machine Interaction I (Project) 2013-2015
• Mobile Human-Machine Interaction 2 - SS 2013
• Interactive driving simulator

Final theses

• Interactive Phone Call (Master Thesis 2011)
• NaviBeam: Indoor Assistance and Navigation for Shopping Malls trough Projector Phones (Bachelor Thesis 2011)
• Comparison of Pointing Techniques with Projector Phones (Bachelor Thesis 2011)
• Traffic information by means of parasitic sensing - Using sensors, data mining and machine learning on ubiquitous smartphones to recognize people's mode of transportation (Bachelor Thesis 2012)
• Development and Evaluation of Hand-Tracking and Hand-Projection above Multitouch-Tables for Interactive User Support (Bachelor Thesis 2012)
• Development of Application Scenarios for Camera-based Finger Tracking on an iPhone with Integrated Pico-Projector. (Bachelor Thesis 2012)
• cRing - A touch-sensitive finger ring for gesture-based interaction with various interconnected smart devices. (Bachelor Thesis 2014)
• Development and Evaluation of a Wrist-worn Projector-Camera System Enabling Augmented Reality. (Master Thesis 2014)
• Extended Mobile Interaction. (Master Thesis 2014)
• Smart, Smarter, Smartest? An Exploration of the Design Space and Development of Interactions Between Multiple Smart Gadgets (Bachelor Thesis 2014)

If you are interested in a topic for a thesis in the field of Augmented Reality, especially using Human Resources or Head-Mounted-Displays, please contact me via email to arrange a meeting.

Memberships

• Member of the "Association for Computing Machinery" (ACM)
• Member of the "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers" (IEEE)

Programme Committee Member:

• Mensch&Computer 2015
• ACM MUM 2013
• IEEE IOT 2014, 2015

Academic Internships:

• Microsoft Research Cambridge (2011)

Reviewer for:

• IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine
• IEEE Internet Computing Magazine

• CHI 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
• Mobile HCI 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• UIST 2011
• ITS 2011
• IOT 2010, 2014, 2015
• MUM 2012, 2013
• AML 2012
• AVI 2013
• SUI 2014
• Siggraph ASIA 2014

Conferences

• CHI 2015 (Seoul)
• CHI 2014 (Toronto)
• CHI 2013 (Paris)
• MUM 2012 (ULM)
• ITS 2012 (Cambridge, Boston, MA)
• Mobile HCI 2012 (San Francisco)
• ITS 2011 (Kobe)
• Human Resources Projection Workshop (Oulu)
• Mobile HCI 2011 (Stockholm)
• CHI 2011 (Vancouver)
• IOT 2010 (Tokyo)
• UbiComp 2010 (Copenhagen)
• Mobile HCI 2010 (Lisbon)
• Mobile HCI 2009 (Bonn)

Publications