News of the Human-Centered Information Systems group at TU Clausthal: announcements, awards, talks and events.https://geist.pro/en-gbSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/dis-2026-best-paper/https://geist.pro/news/dis-2026-best-paper/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.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTHuman-robot interactionSoft floating robotsInclusive technologyhttps://geist.pro/news/kai-kunze-appointed-professor/https://geist.pro/news/kai-kunze-appointed-professor/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.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/tunicorn-clara/https://geist.pro/news/tunicorn-clara/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.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTHealth and carehttps://geist.pro/news/medical-co-pilot-press-release/https://geist.pro/news/medical-co-pilot-press-release/Dominik Schulz, research associate of the Human-Centered Information Systems group, took second place with Team AVAR at the HealthHack idea competition in Braunschweig.Thu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTHealth and carehttps://geist.pro/news/healthhack-av-ar/https://geist.pro/news/healthhack-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.Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTHealth and carehttps://geist.pro/news/hci-deep-dive-podcast/https://geist.pro/news/hci-deep-dive-podcast/Experiments with NotebookLM's Audio Overview turned HCI publications into a podcast about Human-Computer Interaction.Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/augmenting-humans-neurolive-2021/https://geist.pro/news/augmenting-humans-neurolive-2021/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.Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/augmented-humans-2020-online/https://geist.pro/news/augmented-humans-2020-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.Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/dagstuhl-eyewear-computing-lessons/https://geist.pro/news/dagstuhl-eyewear-computing-lessons/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.Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/iswc-ubicomp-heidelberg/https://geist.pro/news/iswc-ubicomp-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.Sat, 03 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/after-iswc-ubicomp-2015/https://geist.pro/news/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.Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://geist.pro/news/introducing-geist/https://geist.pro/news/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.Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT