News
12 items, 2015 to 2026: announcements, awards, talks and events of the group.
2026
3 items
Event · Singapore
Best Paper Award and Honorable Mention at ACM DIS 2026
At the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2026 in Singapore the chair received a Best Paper Award for Floating Companion and an Honorable Mention for a paper on collective digital art.
· Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Kai Kunze appointed University Professor at TU Clausthal
Kai Kunze has been appointed University Professor of Human-Centered Information Systems at TU Clausthal; he has represented the subject at the Institut für Informatik since April 2026.
· TU Clausthal
3rd Place at TUniCorn 2026 – CLARA: AI-powered voice documentation for nursing care
Our team developed CLARA, an AI-based voice documentation solution for nursing care featuring offline capability, multilingualism and European AI, and has already trialled it in practice.
2025
2 items
· Braunschweig
TU staff member develops a medical co-pilot
Dominik Schulz, research associate of the Human-Centered Information Systems group, took second place with Team AVAR at the HealthHack idea competition in Braunschweig.
· Metropolregion Hannover Braunschweig Göttingen Wolfsburg
Language-based care innovation impresses at hackathon – 2nd place for AV-AR
AV-AR (Actual Voice Augmented Reality), a prototype that analyses and documents care conversations live and proposes measures, took second place at the regional HealthHack 2025.
2024
1 item
HCI Deep Dive: using generative AI for audio creation
Experiments with NotebookLM's Audio Overview turned HCI publications into a podcast about Human-Computer Interaction.
2021
1 itemTalk · Online
Augmenting Humans at the Neurolive Liveness Symposium
Kai Kunze was invited as a panelist to the three-day online Liveness Symposium of the Neurolive EU project, bringing together artists, humanities scholars and cognitive neuroscientists.
2020
1 item
Event · Kaiserslautern, Germany
Augmented Humans 2020: taking a conference online
The co-organised Augmented Humans conference in Kaiserslautern moved to a fully virtual event because of COVID-19; Stelarc's keynote was pre-recorded and streamed.
2018
2 items
· Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Lessons from the Dagstuhl Seminar on Eyewear Computing
Why the Eyewear Computing seminar deviated from the standard Dagstuhl model: 3-minute talks, hands-on tutorials on eye tracking, egocentric vision, optics and head-mounted displays, and what worked.
· Heidelberg, Germany
ISWC and UbiComp in Heidelberg
Six GEIST papers at UbiComp/ISWC 2016 in Heidelberg, from a wearable ambient sound display to the Wordometer 2.0 and smooth-pursuit interaction with EOG glasses.
2015
2 items· Osaka, Japan
After ISWC/UbiComp 2015
Although officially founded on 24 September, GEIST had a strong presence at ISWC/UbiComp 2015; Vilhelmina Sokol won the Design Award at the ISWC Design Competition.
· Keio Media Design, Yokohama
Introducing Geist
Kai Kunze announces GEIST, a new Real Project at Keio Media Design focused on understanding gut feeling and embodiment to augment intellect and skills using technology.