Lasse Schwarten

Doctoral Candidate

Bremen University
FB 03, MZH 5060
Bibliothekstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen

Phone: +49 (0)421 218-64411
Fax +49 (0)421 218-64409
e-mail: lasse(at)tzi.de

 

 

Background

End of 2005 I got a Computer Science Diploma from the University of Bremen. Afterwards i moved to England to work in the quality assurance department of a global concern. Since 2007 I am working on my Ph. D. within the graduate school "Advances in Digital Media" and the "Digital Media" department of Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka.

In 2009 I took a break from my resaerch activities and worked as an IT-Consultant on a projekt outside the university context.

Research Interests

The working title of my Ph. D. thesis is "Motion-based Interaction with Mobile Devices".

I am working on answering the question: "How does a one-handed, motion-based controll could be designed to allow that it:

  1. is easely learned or better can be used intuitively (good affordance),
  2. has low mental and phisical demands and
  3. can be used with ease while it is effective an efficient.

With this goal in mind I dedicate my efforts on mobile software development (Windows Mobile, Android) and user studies about this topic. Further information about my work can be found on the MarbleControl website.

Publications

Walther-Franks, B., Schwarten, L., Teichert, L., Krause, M. and Herrlich, M. (2008). User Detection for a Multi-touch Table via Proximity Sensors. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008.

Krause, M., Herrlich, M., Schwarten, L., Teichert, J. and Walther-Franks, B. (2008). Multitouch Motion Capturing. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008.

Herrlich, M., Krause, M., Schwarten, L., Teichert, J. and Walther-Franks, B. (2008). Multitouch Interface Metaphors for 3D Modeling. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008.

Schwarten, L., Walther-Franks, B., Grimmer, C. & Feige, S. (2008). A Comparison of Motion and Keypad Interaction for Fine Manipulation on Mobile Devices. In: Omar Abuelmaatti & David England (ed.), Proceedings of HCI 2008 (Volume 2), S. 93-96. Liverpool, UK: The British Computer Society. [PDF herunterladen]