Jan Borchers' Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University works on the Aachen Media Space, a highly flexible next-generation interactive room. Users collaborate on traditional "static" media (text, images), but also time-based media (audio, video), using large interactive displays, spatial audio, and modalities such as gesture and speech. Media-appropriate interfaces (such as humming to find, and conducting gestures to control music) are combined with the iStuff toolkit to rapidly prototype physical, post-desktop UIs. HCI Design Patterns capture design guidelines for augmented environments.

For more information please visit our department homepage at: http://media.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/msp.html

Related Publications:

• HCI Design Patterns for Media Spaces (restricted access only).
• "Being private and public at home - an architectural perspective on video mediated comunication in smart homes" (external link) - One of the papers deals with this problem applied on Alexanters methodology: Private and Public Digital Domestic Spaces. Authors: Junestrand, S., Keijer, U. & Tollmar, K. Published in: In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 54, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 753-778. Academic Press, London, England.

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