AWE Europe 2017

VR-Fitness Device

The AWE is the worlds largest AR & VR conference and expo and it took place this year in Munich, Germany. I had the chance to take a look at the latest developments in AR & VR software and hardware and was really surprised to see that the general interest for AR seems to explode, …

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MediaNight Summer Term 2017

Today the biggest event of the year, the MediaNight,  is taking place again at the Stuttgart Media University. Please come and have a look at the great projects the students were working on during the last semester. Here are some snapshots of the projects I have supervised: Hamster is an app that helps you to …

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Mobile Day Summerterm 2017

On Monday, June 26th at 14.15 the third Mobile Day took place at the Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart (Nobelstraße 10, Room 013). See the video stream here https://events.mi.hdm-stuttgart.de/2017-06-26-3-mobile-day: AGENDA – MOBILE DAY 14:15 – Welcome, Prof. Gerlicher 14:20 – Cross-Platform App Development Dr. Daniel Thommes, NEON alpha 15:00 – App-Backend as a Service Ruben Deyhle, …

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MediaNight Wintersemester 2016/17

Last Thursday (January, 26th 2017) the MediaNight (trailer) was taking place again at the Stuttgart Media University. This semester, what impressed me the most were the many VR installations and games. It seems to me that VR really is mainstream now. I had the impression that there were more VR games and applications shown than normal …

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Institute for Mobility and Digital Innovation at the Innovation Day

The Innovation Day (last Wednesday, 23rd November, 2016) at the Stuttgart Media University was an exiting day full of interesting presentations and workshops. Together with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gruel and Prof. Dr. Arnd Engeln I presented our new Institute for Mobility and Digital Innovation (MODI) which we recently established together with our colleague Prof. Dr. Uwe Eisenbeis. Together with the audience we conducted …

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Two more PhDs completed

Daniel Thommes (left) and Thomas Fankhauser (right) both finished their PhDs this year and can from now on proudly call themselves Doctor! During the past five respectively three and a half years I supervised them in cooperation with Qi Wang from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and Christos Grecos (now Central Washington …

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Thesis: Implementation and Evaluation of Smartwatch- based Authentication Methods

Abstract In the recent years, wearable devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers have enhanced our daily lifes in manifold aspects. However, one of the biggest hassles of our modern digitized world they have not been able to eliminate yet: today almost everyone has to deal with passwords or login credentials that are either too short …

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