Fabian Hemmert

Short CV

since 2007	Design Research at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, PhD student at TU Berlin

2005	Marvel Comics, Internship
2005–2007	FH Potsdam, Interface Design (M.A.)

2004	Nintendo, Internship
2002–2005	University of Bielefeld, Media Design (B.Sc.)

Interests

The theory and philosophy of embodiment, resistance and thinghood,
Research through and about design,
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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).

Publications

Shape- and Weight-Based Interaction in Mobile Phones
- Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Zeipelt, Josefine, and Joost, Gesche 2010. Weight-Shifting Mobiles: Automatic Balancing in Mobile Phones. In CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 3081-3085.
- Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Zeipelt, Josefine, and Joost, Gesche 2010. Weight-Shifting Mobiles: Two-Dimensional Gravitational Displays in Mobile Phones. In CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 3087-3091.
- Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Zeipelt, Josefine, and Joost, Gesche 2010. Shape-Changing Mobiles: Tapering in Two-Dimensional Deformational Displays in Mobile Phones. In CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 3075-3079.
- 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.
Embodiment Theory and Methodology
- Joost, Gesche and Hemmert, Fabian 2010. In Touch with Representation: Iconic, Indexical and Symbolic Signification in Tangible User Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2010 (Montreal (Quebec), Canada, July 7 - 9, 2010). DRS '10.
- Hemmert, Fabian and Joost, Gesche 2010. Embodiment, Immediacy and Thinghood in the Design of Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2010 (Montreal (Quebec), Canada, July 7 - 9, 2010). DRS '10.
- Hemmert, Fabian, Hamann, Susann, Löwe, Matthias, Zeipelt, Josefine and Joost, Gesche 2010. Co-Designing with Children: A Comparison of Embodied and Disembodied Sketching Techniques for the Design of Child Age Communication Devices. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (Barcelona, Spain, June 9 - 12, 2010). IDC '10. ACM, New York, NY, 202-205.
- Hemmert, Fabian 2010. Interfaces beyond the Surface: A Structural Approach to Embodiment. In CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010). CHI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 2903-2906.
Reflective Haptics
- Hemmert, Fabian, Müller, Alexander, Wintergerst, Götz, Jagodzinski, Ron and Joost, Gesche 2010. Reflective Haptics: Haptic Augmentation of GUIs through Frictional Actuation of Stylus-Based Interactions. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (New York City, NY, USA, October 3 - 6, 2010). UIST '10. ACM, New York, NY. (in press)
- Wintergerst, Götz, Jagodzinski, Ron, Hemmert, Fabian, Müller, Alexander, and Joost, Gesche 2010. Reflective Haptics: Enhancing Stylus-Based Interactions on Touch Screens. In Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2010 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 8 - 10, 2010). EuroHaptics '10.
- Müller, Alexander, Hemmert, Fabian, Wintergerst, Götz, and Jagodzinski, Ron 2010. Reflective Haptics: Resistive Force Feedback for Musical Performances with Stylus-Controlled Instruments. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (Sydney, Australia, June 15 - 18, 2010). NIME '10. ACM, New York, NY, 477-478.
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.
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.
- 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). UIST '08. ACM, New York, NY.
- 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.
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.

Teaching

Summer 2010	Design Methods and Design Processes, seminar at HfK Bremen, together with Katharina Bredies, Alexander Müller, Gesche Joost, Ursula Zillig and Peter von Maydell
May 2009	Swarm Robots, Workshop at TU Berlin/UdK Berlin
Summer 2008	Living Interfaces, seminar at FH Potsdam, together with Reto Wettach
Winter 2006	Physical Computing, seminar at FH Potsdam (Research Assistant to Reto Wettach)
Summer 2006	Physical Computing, seminar at FH Potsdam (Research Assistant to Reto Wettach)

Web Design

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

Talks

Making Computers Stiff, Scratchy and Stubborn on May 7th, 2010, at the Lift 10 conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
Interfaces Beyond the Surface - A Structural Approach to Embodiment on April 11th, 2010, at the CHI'10 Doctoral Consortium in Atlanta.
Digital Resistance on March 17th, 2010, about why we should make human-computer interaction a bit more resistive, at the '4010' Telekom Store in Berlin.
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
- ZIBB on RBB Fernsehen on June 9th, 2010. A short documentation about the Science Slam, in which I participated.
- 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 the 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.