dominik

My name is Dominik Schmidt and I’m a Ph.D. student at the Embedded Interactive Systems (EIS) group at Lancaster University, UK. This page provides an overview of ongoing and past projects. Please feel free to contact me for additional information or to say hello: dominik.schmidt@comp.lancs.ac.uk.

Current Projects

PhoneTouch is a novel technique for integration of mobile phones and interactive surfaces. The technique enables use of phones to select targets on the surface by direct touch.
HandsDown enables user identification based on biometric hand contour analysis.
IdWristbands use infra-red LED to associate touches to users on multi-touch surfaces

News

Our paper “A Cross-Device Interaction Style for Mobiles and Surfaces” has been accepted to DIS 2012
New Microsoft Surface has arrived. Processing raw images with EmguCV.
Invited talk at Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam (25.01.2012)
List of upcoming HCI conference deadlines
Back in Lancaster to finish my thesis and looking for the next challenge
In Beijing with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) over the summer
Article on Windows Phone 7 and callbacks for client-server communication
Received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Studies