Activities

I consider service to be a central component of a career in academia. On this page, I compiled a list of selected professional activities, committee memberships, reviewing activities, and invited talks (for conference talks see my publication page).  I do regular reviews for various venues including ACM CHI, ACM UIST, ACM Ubicomp, ACM DIS, ACM IUI, INTERACT, ACM ISS, ACM MobileHCI, NordiCHI, ACM VRST, IEEE VR, and various top journals. In addition, I serve as a reviewer for DFG and BMBF proposals, and other European science foundations, and I am also a member of scientific advisory boards for projects on the EU level.

I am also actively involved in helping to lead several research communities. I am the chair of the SIGCHI chapter in Switzerland. From 2022 I am on the award committee of the ACM Eugene Lawler Award. In the past, I was the general chair at ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surface 2010 and was the program chair for ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surface in 2015 and 2016 and also served as the chair of the steering committee. In addition, I was the program chair for the subcommittee Technological Innovation for ACM DIS 2014 and 2016 and was the program chair for the Spatial Cognition Conference in 2018 and a workshop chair at ACM CHI 2018. For MobileHCI 2023 I will serve as a PC chair.

Professional Services

• PC chair MobileHCI 2023, Athen, Greece (2023)
• PC member LBS 2023, Ghent, Belgium (2023)
• Jury member ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics (since 2023)
• PC member GiScience 2023, Leeds, UK
• PC member Augmented Human 2022, Virtually anywhere on earth, (2022)
• Editorial Board AI Perspectives Springer Nature, (2021)
• PC member LBS 2021, Glasgow, UK (2021)
• PC member EarComp 2021, Virtually anywhere on earth, (2021)
• PC member GiScience 2021, Poznań, Polen, (2021)
• PC member MobileHCI 2020, Oldenburg, Germany (2020)
• PC member EarComp 2020, Cancun, Mexico (2020)
• PC member LBS 2020, London, UK (2020)
• PC member Augmented Human 2020, Kaiserslautern, Germany (2020)
• PC member IEEE AIVR 2019, San Diego, USA (2019)
• PC member Earable Computing at Ubicomp 2019, London, UK (2019)
• PC member LBS 2019, Vienna, Austria (2019)
• Member European AI Alliance, (2019)
• PC member ACM Multimedia, Seoul, Korea (2018)
• Editorial Board Journal of Location Based Services, since (2018)
• Organizer Ubiactivity 2018, Singapur (2018)
• Workshops Chair ACM CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada (2018)
• PC chair Spatial Cognition 2018, Tübingen, Germany (2018)
• PC member IEEE Virtual Reality, Reutlingen, Germany (2018)
• PC member Augmented Human 2018,  Seoul, Korea (2018)
• PC member IUI 2018, Tokyo, Japan
• PC member LBS 2018, Zurich, Switzerland (2018)
• Inaugural Member, ACM FCA, (2017)
• PC member MobileHCI 2017, Vienna, Austria (2017)
• Organizer NatureCHI, Vienna, Austria, (2017)
• PC member IUI 2017, Limassol, Cyprus (2017)
• PC member Augmented Human 2017, Silicon Valley, USA, (2017)
• Program chair ISS 2016 formerly known as ITS 2016, Niagara Falls, Canada (2016)
• Program chair DIS 2016, SC Tech. Innovation, Brisbane, Australia (2016)
• Poster chair MobiCase 2016, Cambridge, UK
• Organizer UbiMount 2016, Heidelberg, Germany (2016)
• Organizer CrossSurface, San Jose, USA (2016)
• Organizer  NatureCHI, San Jose, USA (2016)
• PC member  IUI 2016, Sonoma, USA (2016)
• PC member  IEEE 3DUI 2015, Greenville, USA (2016)
• PC member Augmented Human 2016, Geneva, Switzerland, (2016)
• Organizer  CrossSurface, Funchal, Portugal (2015)
• Program chair ITS 2015, Funchal, Portugal (2015)
• Organizer Dagstuhl Seminar  “Informatik@School”, Dagstuhl, Germany (2015)
• PC member  MUM 2015, Linz Ars Electronica, Austria (2015)
• PC member IEEE 3DUI 2015, Arles, France (2015)
• PC member Augmented Human 2015, Singapore, (2015)
• PC member Locweb 2015, Florence, Italy (2015)
• Jury member InformatiCup 2015, Germany (2015)
• Organizer Dagstuhl Seminar  “Informatik@School”, Dagstuhl, Germany (2014)
• PC member  ITS 2014, Dresden, Germany (2014)
• Chair Poster Track, ITS 2014, Dresden, Germany (2014)
• PC member CMIS 2014, Dresden, Germany (2014)
• PC member Urb-IoT 2014, Rome, Italy (2014)
• PC member Locweb 2014, Shanghai, China (2014)
• PC member  MobileHCI 2014, Toronto, Canada (2014)
• Chair Poster Track MobileHCI 2014, Toronto, Canada (2014)
• Program chair DIS 2014, SC Tech. Innovation, Vancouver, Canada (2014)
• PC member ARea, Workshop on Open Mixed Reality Spaces, Oulu, Finland (2014)
• PC member LBS 2014, Symposium on Location-based Services, Vienna, Austria (2014)
• PC member ETAS 2014, Eye Tracking for Spatial Research, Vienna, Austria (2014)
• PC member Mobiquitous 2014, London, UK (2014)
• PC member IEEE 3DUI 2014, Minneapolis, USA (2014)
• Junior Fellow Gesellschaft für Informatik, (2013)
• PC member ITS 2013, St. Andrews, UK (2013)
• PC member Ubicomp 2013, Zurich, Switzerland (2013)
• PC member MobileHCI 2013, Munich, Germany (2013)
• PC member Interact 2013, Cape Town, South Africa (2013)
• PC member ISIS3D, St. Andrews, UK (2013)
• PC member MapInteract 2013,  ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop, Orlando, USA (2013)
• PC member ACM Symposium on SUI @ Siggraph 2013, Los Angeles, USA (2013)
• Chair Industry, ITS 2013, St. Andrews, UK (2013)
• Chair Sponsorship, Mobile HCI 2013, München, Germany (2013)
• Organizer GeoHCI, Paris, France (2013)
• PC member Poster Track, WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013)
• PC member Geoinformatik 2013, Heidelberg, Germany (2013)
• PC member IIHCI 2013, Taipei, Taiwan (2013)
• PC member ICMI 2012, Santa Monica, USA (2012)
• PC member AmI 2012, Pisa, Italy (2012)
• PC member DIS 2012, Newcastle, UK (2012)
• PC member Ubicomp 2012, Pittsburgh, USA (2012)
• PC member AI@IE, Montpellier, France, (2012)
• PC member MUM 2012, Essen, Germany (2012)
• PC member IoT 2012, Wuxi, China (2012)
• PC member CHI 2012 Video Track, Austin, USA (2012)
• PC member Geoinformatik 2012, Braunschweig, Germany (2012)
• PC member Ubicomp 2011, Beijing / China (2011)
• Chair Publicity, ITS 2011, Kobe, Japan (2011)
• PC member ICMI 2011, Alicante, Spain (2011)
• PC member MobileHCI 2011, Stockholm, Sweden (2011)
• PC member CHI 2011 Video Track, Vancouver, Canada (2011)
• Organizer GeoHCI, Vancouver, Canada (2011)
• PC member  8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services, Vienna, Austria (2011)
• PC member  Geoinformatik 2011, Münster, Germany (2011)
• PC member  AGILE 2011, Utrecht, Netherlands (2011)
• Organizer CHI 2011 Workshop on Next Generation of HCI and Education, USA (2011)
• Chair Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2010, Saarbrücken, Germany (2011)
• Organizer  LocWeb2010, Tokyo, Japan  (2011)
• PC member IUI 2011, Palo Alto, USA (2011)
• PC member MUM 2010, Limassol, Cyprus (2010)
• Organizer Pervasive 2010 Workshop Ubiprojection, Helsinki, Finland (2010)
• PC member AIGILE 2010, Guimarães, Portugal (2010)
• PC member CHI 2010 Video Track, Atlanta, USA (2010)
• Organizer CHI 2010 Workshop on Next Generation of HCI and Education, USA (2010)
• Chair Demos ITS 2009, Banff, Canada (2009)
• PC member MIRW 2009, Bonn, Germany (2009)
• PC member SLIDE 2009, Linz, Austria (2009)
• PC member AIGILE 2009, Hannover, Germany (2009)
• Organizer LocWeb2009, Boston, USA (2009)
• Organizer BYO Multi-Touch Bootcamp with IEEE Tabletops 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Organizer TIPUGG 2008, Salt Lake City, USA (2008)
• PC member Fun & Games 2008, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2008)
• PC member LocWeb 2008, Peking, China (2008)
• Organizer Workshop on Multi-Touch Surfaces, Münster, Germany (2007)
• Senior Member ACM
• Member Gesellschaft für Informatik

Invited Talks & Courses 

• Talk UX Switzerland, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland (2023)
• Talk IBM iX Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2023)
• Talk University of Ulm, Germany (2022)
• Talk ICS-FORTH HCI, Greece (2022)
• Talk Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany (2021)
• Talk University of Zurich, Switzerland (2021)
• Talk Data Science Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (2021)
• Talk KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (2021)
• Talk Técnico Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (2020)
• Talk University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2020)
• Talk Institut Nicod CNRS, Paris, France (2020)
• Talk Symposium on Explainable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis and Care Robotics, Oldenburg, Germany (2020)
• Talk Haus der Wissenschaft “Einfach Wissenswert: Robotik und KI”, Bremen, Germany (2019)
• Talk Aarhus University, Denmark (2018)
• Keynote SRL Conference, Frankfurt, Germany (2018)
• Keynote Digital Public Health Conference, Rotenburg, Germany (2018)
• Talk Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2018)
• Talk Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy (2018)
• Talk Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (2018)
• Talk Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen, Germany (2018)
• Keynote LBS 2018, Zurich, Switzerland (2018)
• Talk Hochschule Bonn-Rhein Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany (2017)
• Talk Samsung Digital Chance Lunch, Berlin, Germany (2017)
• Talk OFFIS – Institut für Informatik, Oldenburg, Germany (2017)
• Course Spring course for the CMU Master program at M-ITI, Funchal, Portugal (2017)
• Talk Geoinformatics Research Group, Heidelberg, Germany (2016)
• Course DEN Summer School, Newcastle, UK (2016)
• Talk Machine Intelligence Summit, Berlin, Germany (2016)
• Keynote Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Gummersbach, Germany (2016)
• Talk Garmin, Würzburg, Germany (2016)
• Talk M-ITI | HCI Research Institute in Madeira, Portugal (2016)
• Course Interdisciplinary College, Spring School, Günne, Germany (2016)
• Talk Conference on Education in the Digital World, Düsseldorf, Germany (2016)
• Talk Human-Centered Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany (2015)
• Talk KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (2015)
• Talk Digital Media Lab, Bremen, Germany (2015)
• Talk Computer Engineering Group, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2015)
• Talk GroupLens, University of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (2015)
• Talk Duke University, Durham, USA (2015)
• Keynote W2GIS 2015, Grenoble, France (2015)
• Keynote LID 2015, EICS Workshop, Essen, Germany (2015)
• Talk Jacobs Foundation Conference 2015, Marbach, Germany (2015)
• Talk ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2015)
• Talk Human-Computer-Interaction group, University of Ulm, Germany (2015)
• Talk Google X, Mountain View, USA (2014)
• Talk Siemens IoT Research Lab, Berkeley, USA (2014)
• Talk Human-Centered Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany (2014)
• Talk SACHI Seminar, University of St. Andrews, UK (2014)
• Talk Institute for Geoinformatics, GI-Forum, Münster, Germany (2014)
• Talk UCSB, Specialist Meeting Smart Campus, Santa Barbara, USA (2013)
• Talk Google Maps, Mountain View, USA (2013)
• Talk University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany (2013)
• Talk Roundtable Münchner UnternehmerKreis IT, Munich, Germany (2013)
• Talk Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium (2013)
• Keynote HAMAE, BritishHCI Workshop, London, UK (2013)
• Talk Google GeoUX, London, UK (2013)
• Talk Institute for Geoinformatics, Brown-bag Talks, Münster, Germany (2013)
• Talk Human-Centered Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany (2013)
• Talk Oulu University, Oulu, Finland (2013)
• Talk UEC Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2013)
• Talk Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan (2013)
• Talk University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (2013)
• Talk Mensch-Computer Interaktion Group at University of Konstanz, Germany (2013)
• Talk RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany (2012)
• Talk Mettler Toledo Customer Council, Las Vegas, USA (2012)
• Talk McKinsey Business Technology Award 2011, Kitzbühel, Austria (2012)
• Talk HCI Design for Trustworthy Organic Computing, Munich, Germany (2011)
• Talk University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (2011)
• Talk SMART, Calgary, Canada (2011)
• Talk University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (2011)
• Talk 5th Munich Digital Signage Conference, Munich, Germany (2011)
• Talk WARM Workshop 2011, Graz, Austria (2011)
• Talk Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie, Bonn, Germany  (2010)
• Talk Wirtschaftsinformatik, Würzburg, Germany (2010)
• Talk WARM Workshop 2010, Graz Austria (2010)
• Talk Stadtverwaltung Köln, Cologne, Germany  (2010)
• Talk Droidcon 2009, Berlin, Germany (2009)
• Talk Faculty of Computer Science, Magdeburg, Germany  (2009)
• Talk Human-Centered Multimedia, Augsburg, Germany (2009)
• Talk Geoinformatik 2009, Osnabrück, Germany (2009)
• Talk 5. GIS-AT 2009, Potsdam, Germany (2009)
• Talk WARM Workshop 2009, Graz, Austria (2009)
• Talk WAMS 2008, Ylivieska, Finland (2008)
• Talk Advanced Navigation 2008, Berlin, Germany (2008)
• Talk Institute for Cartography & Geoinformatics, Hannover, Germany  (2008)
• Talk WARM Workshop 2008, Graz, Austria (2008)
• Talk Advanced Navigation 2007, Berlin, Germany  (2007)
• Talk AAG Spatial Technology Gallery, San Francisco, USA (2007)
• Talk Yahoo Research, Berkeley, USA (2007)
• Talk Ricoh Innovation, Palo Alto, USA (2007)