Short CV

since 2007Design Research at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories,
PhD student at TU Berlin
    
2005Marvel Comics, Internship
2005–2007FH Potsdam, Interface Design (M.A.)
    
2004Nintendo, Internship
2002–2005University of Bielefeld, Media Design (B.Sc.)

Interests

  • The philosophy, theory and practice of embodiment,
  • Research through and about design,
  • ***** ****** and **********.
I am a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the German Society of Design Theory and Research (DGTF), and the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).

Teaching

February 2010Near and Far: Bodies and Space in Social Media, Workshop at TU Berlin
May 2009 Swarm Robots, Workshop at TU Berlin/UdK Berlin
Summer 2008 Living Interfaces at FH Potsdam (Associate Lecturer, together with Reto Wettach)
Winter 2006 Physical Computing at FH Potsdam (Research Assistant to Reto Wettach)
Summer 2006 Physical Computing at FH Potsdam (Research Assistant to Reto Wettach)

Publications

  • Shape- and Weight-Based Interaction in Mobile Phones
    • Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Wohlauf, Anne, and Joost, Gesche 2010. Shape-Changing Mobiles: Tapering in One-Dimensional Deformational Displays in Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 25 - 27, 2010). TEI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 249-252.

    • Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Wohlauf, Anne, and Joost, Gesche 2009. Weight-Shifting Mobiles: One-Dimensional Gravitational Displays in Mobile Phones. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 04 - 07, 2009). UIST '09. ACM, New York, NY.

    • Hemmert, Fabian, Joost, Gesche, Knörig, André, and Wettach, Reto (2008). Dynamic Knobs: Shape Change as a Means of Interaction on a Mobile Phone. In CHI '08: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 2309-2314.

  • Tangible User Interfaces
    • Hemmert, Fabian, Löwe, Matthias, Wohlauf, Anne, and Joost, Gesche 2009. Tactful Calling: Urgency-Augmented Phone Calls through High-Resolution Pressure Input on Mobile Phones. In CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 04 - 09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 3187-3192.

    • Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, and Wettach, Reto 2009. The Digital Hourglass. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 19-20.

    • Hemmert, Fabian, Knörig, André, Joost, Gesche, and Wettach, Reto 2009. Stick, Click'n Call: Self-Adhesive Pressure-Activated RFID Tags for Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 283-284.

  • Life-Like Movements in Mobile Phones
    • Hemmert, Fabian and Joost, Gesche 2009. Ambient Life: Instinctive Tactile Cues in Mobile Phone Interactions. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Instinctive Computing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 15 - 16, 2009).

    • Hemmert, Fabian 2009. Life in the Pocket: The Ambient Life Project. Life-Like Movements in Tactile Ambient Displays in Mobile Phones. In International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, 1(2), 13-19, April-June, 2009.

    • Hemmert, Fabian 2008. Ambient Life: Permanent Tactile Life-like Actuation as a Status Display in Mobile Phones. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (Monterey, California, USA, October 20 - 22, 2008).

    • Hemmert, Fabian and Joost, Gesche 2008. Ambient Life: Calm and Excited Permanent Tactile Life-like Actuation as a Status Display in Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the Conference on Design & Emotion 2008 (Hong Kong, October 6 - 9, 2008).

    • Hemmert, Fabian 2008. Ambient Life: Interrupted Permanent Tactile Life-like Actuation as a Status Display in Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ambient Information Systems (Seoul, Korea, September 21, 2008). AIS '08.

  • Living Interfaces
    • Burneleit, Eva, Hemmert, Fabian and Wettach, Reto 2009. Living Interfaces: The Impatient Toaster. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 21-22.

    • Roy, Miriam, Hemmert, Fabian and Wettach, Reto 2009. Living Interfaces: The Intimate Doorlock. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 45-46.

    • Togler, Jonas, Hemmert, Fabian and Wettach, Reto 2009. Living Interfaces: The Thrifty Faucet. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 43-44.

  • Closing the Eyes in Visual Media
    • Hemmert, Fabian, Djokic, Danijela, and Wettach, Reto 2008. Hemmert, Fabian, Djokic, Danijela, and Wettach, Reto 2008. Spoken Words: Activating Text-to-Speech Through Eye Closure. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 2325-2330.

    • Hemmert, Fabian, Djokic, Danijela, and Wettach, Reto 2008. Perspective Change: A System for Switching Between On-Screen Views by Closing One Eye. In Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual interfaces (Napoli, Italy, May 28 - 30, 2008). AVI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 484-485.

Web Design

  • Wii for Nintendo of Europe
  • Nintendo DS for Nintendo of Europe
  • Game Boy Advance for Nintendo of Europe

Talks

  • Very Handy - Haptic Displays in Mobile Phones on December 28th, 2009. I gave a 4-minutes 'Lightning Talk' at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress.
  • How Can We Make Digital Content Graspable? On November 30th, 2009, I gave a short talk at TEDxBerlin.
  • Innovation in the Pocket - a Design Research Perspective on September 15th, 2009. I was invited to give a talk about the Design Research Lab's work at the Xinnovations forum, in the 'E-Strategy' track.
  • Hello (real) World on May 11th, 2009. At the UdK Schwarmlabor, I gave a short talk about the theory and practice of physcial interaction and tangible user interfaces.
  • Designing Tangible Interaction on December 19th, 2008. I talked at Patrick Baudisch's Human Computer Interaction class at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.

Press

  • Radio and TV
    • Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg on March 8th, 2010. A short documentation about work at T-Labs.
    • ComputerClub Zwei on February 18th, 2010. An interview by Wolfgang Back about making technology more human.
    • Deutschlandfunk: Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt on February 14th, 2010. A feature on mobile phones of the future, including an interview with Gesche Joost and me.
    • AP TV on November 10th, 2008. A short feature about T-Labs and living mobile phones.
    • ComputerClub Zwei on April 28th, 2008. An interview by Wolfgang Rudolph and Wolfgang Back about living mobile phones.
    • ZIBB on RBB Fernsehen on March 17th, 2008, about phones of the future.
    • RTL Aktuell on March 5th, 2008. I was interviewed at CeBIT about living mobile phones.
  • Print
    • Werben und Verkaufen on August 20th, 2009. Gesche Joost is being interviewed about her work. The article also mentions the living mobile phone.
    • Technology Review on June 18th, 2009. Gesche Joost is being interviewed about the Woman's Phone project. The article also mentions the living mobile phone.
    • Computerzeitung on October 6th, 2008. This issue featured an article edited by Gesche Joost and me, about recent developments within physical mobile interaction design.
    • Berliner Zeitung on June 16th, 2008, about the 'Long Night of Sciences' in Berlin, and living mobile phones.
  • Web
    • information aesthetics on February 1st, 2010, about weight- and shape-based representations of digital content.
    • Engadget on February 1st, 2010, about my short talk at TEDxBerlin.
    • MacNews on January 8th, 2010, about my short talk at the Chaos Communication Congress.
    • Spiegel Online on September 2nd, 2009, about the StreetLab project
    • IDG on April 7th, 2009, about Tactful Calling.
    • New Scientist on October 29th, 2008, about living mobile phones.
    • Adobe Site of The Day, on October 8th, 2007, was "Super Paper Mario", which I created for Nintendo of Europe.
    • Kotaku on April 4th, 2007, about a part of my Master Thesis.
    • Engadget on February 3rd, 2006, also about the Digital Hourglass.
    • Gizmodo on February 2nd, 2006, about the Digital Hourglass.

Contact


Fabian Hemmert
Manteuffelstraße 50
12103 Berlin, Germany

+49 160 904 90444
mail@fabianhemmert.de
  
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