Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Name	Dirk Wenig
Address	Parkallee 207B 28213 Bremen Germany
Email	mail@dirkwenig.de
Phone	+49 421 43740630
Website	http://www.dirkwenig.eu/
Nationality	German
Date of Birth	Oct. 17, 1982

Employment

Since 04/2020	Founder IDA GmbH Bremen, Germany
01/2013 – 03/2020	Research Associate Digital Media Lab, Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
01/2013 – 02/2017	Barkeeper Schmidt's Kneipe Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany
07/2009 – 12/2012	Scholarship Holder Graduate School "Advances in Digital Media" (funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation, KTS), Digital Media Lab, Center for Computing and Communication Technologies (TZI), University of Bremen Bremen, Germany

Education

07/2009 – 05/2015	Dr.-Ing. (magna cum laude) Thesis "Navigation in the Real World and in Virtual Worlds", University of Bremen Bremen, Germany
10/2003 – 04/2009	Dipl.-Inf. (grade 1.2) Thesis "User-generated Content for Image-Based Mobile Navigation", University of Bremen Bremen, Germany

Research

Selected Publications	BibTex copied BibTex of Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{10.1145/3290605.3300903, author = {Muender, Thomas and Reinschluessel, Anke V. and Drewes, Sean and Wenig, Dirk and D\"{o}ring, Tanja and Malaka, Rainer}, title = {Does It Feel Real? Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality}, year = {2019}, isbn = {9781450359702}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300903}, doi = {10.1145/3290605.3300903}, abstract = {Professionals in domains like film, theater, or architecture often rely on physical models to visualize spaces. With virtual reality (VR) new tools are available providing immersive experiences with correct perceptions of depth and scale. However, these lack the tangibility of physical models. Using tangible objects in VR can close this gap but creates the challenges of producing suitable objects and interacting with them with only the virtual objects visible. This work addresses these challenges by evaluating tangibles with three haptic fidelities: equal disc-shaped tangibles for all virtual objects, Lego-built tangibles, and 3D-printed tangibles resembling the virtual shapes. We present results from a comparative study on immersion, performance, and intuitive interaction and interviews with domain experts. The results show that 3D-printed objects perform best, but Lego offers a good trade-off between fast creation of tangibles and sufficient fidelity. The experts rate our approach as useful and would use all three versions.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages = {1–12}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {user study, previsualization, virtual reality, expert interview, tangibles, visual tracking, animation}, location = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk}, series = {CHI '19} } Thomas Muender, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Sean Drewes, Dirk Wenig, Tanja Döring and Rainer Malaka (2019) Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300903 \| BibTex BibTex copied BibTex of Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{Wenig:2017:PIN:3098279.3098529, author = {Wenig, Nina and Wenig, Dirk and Ernst, Steffen and Malaka, Rainer and Hecht, Brent and Sch\"{o}ning, Johannes}, title = {Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}, series = {MobileHCI '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5075-4}, location = {Vienna, Austria}, pages = {7:1--7:13}, articleno = {7}, numpages = {13}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3098279.3098529}, doi = {10.1145/3098279.3098529}, acmid = {3098529}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {computer vision, global landmarks, landmark-based navigation, pedestrian navigation, smartwatches}, } Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Steffen Ernst, Rainer Malaka, Brent Hecht and Johannes Schöning (2017) Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks In MobileHCI '17: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 7.1-7.13. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3098279.3098529 \| PDF of Paper \| BibTex BibTex copied BibTex of WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{Wenig:2017:WES:3025453.3025852, author = {Wenig, Dirk and Sch\"{o}ning, Johannes and Olwal, Alex and Oben, Mathias and Malaka, Rainer}, title = {WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, series = {CHI '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4655-9}, location = {Denver, Colorado, USA}, pages = {716--721}, numpages = {6}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3025453.3025852}, doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025852}, acmid = {3025852}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {micro-interaction, smartwatches, wearable devices}, } Dirk Wenig, Johannes Schöning, Alex Olwal, Mathias Oben and Rainer Malaka (2017) WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 716-721. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3025453.3025852 \| PDF of Paper \| BibTex BibTex copied BibTex of The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{Colley:2017:GPG:3025453.3025495, author = {Colley, Ashley and Thebault-Spieker, Jacob and Lin, Allen Yilun and Degraen, Donald and Fischman, Benjamin and H\"{a}kkil\"{a}, Jonna and Kuehl, Kate and Nisi, Valentina and Nunes, Nuno Jardim and Wenig, Nina and Wenig, Dirk and Hecht, Brent and Sch\"{o}ning, Johannes}, title = {The Geography of Pok{\'e}Mon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, series = {CHI '17}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4655-9}, location = {Denver, Colorado, USA}, pages = {1179--1192}, numpages = {14}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3025453.3025495}, doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025495}, acmid = {3025495}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {algorithmic bias, augmented reality, geoHCI, geography, location-based games, pok'mon GO}, } Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent Hecht and Johannes Schöning (2017) The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1179-1192. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3025453.3025495 \| PDF of Paper \| BibTex BibTex copied BibTex of ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{Wenig:2016:SBI:2935334.2935373, author = {Wenig, Dirk and Steenbergen, Alexander and Sch\"{o}ning, Johannes and Hecht, Brent and Malaka, Rainer}, title = {ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}, series = {MobileHCI '16}, year = {2016}, isbn = {978-1-4503-4408-1}, location = {Florence, Italy}, pages = {400--406}, numpages = {7}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2935334.2935373}, doi = {10.1145/2935334.2935373}, acmid = {2935373}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {cartography, mobile maps, pedestrian navigation, smartwatches, stripe maps}, } Dirk Wenig, Alexander Steenbergen, Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht and Rainer Malaka (2016) ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches In MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 400-406. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/2935334.2935373 \| BibTex Honorable Mention Award BibTex copied BibTex of StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches copied to clipboard. Error on BibTex copy BibTex of StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches could not be copied to clipboard. @inproceedings{Wenig:2015:SIM:2785830.2785862, author = {Wenig, Dirk and Sch\"{o}ning, Johannes and Hecht, Brent and Malaka, Rainer}, title = {StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}, series = {MobileHCI '15}, year = {2015}, isbn = {978-1-4503-3652-9}, location = {Copenhagen, Denmark}, pages = {52--62}, numpages = {11}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2785830.2785862}, doi = {10.1145/2785830.2785862}, acmid = {2785862}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {Cartography, Mobile Maps, Pedestrian Navigation, Smartwatches}, } Dirk Wenig, Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht and Rainer Malaka (2015) StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches In MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 52-62. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/2785830.2785862 \| BibTex Best Paper Award All Publications...
Projects	VIVATOP funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF (11/2018 – 03/2020) New information technologies can help to supply surgeons with important information before and during surgeries, thereby noticeably increasing the chances of a successful outcome. Goal of the VIVATOP project is to use Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D printing to effectively support the planning and execution of surgeries as well as training and education scenarios. More... first.stage funded by European Union, EU (02/2018 – 11/2019) The goal of the EU-project first.stage is to research, design, develop, evaluate, and showcase natural user interfaces that improve previsualisation in film, animation, and the performing arts by speaking the language of the artist rather than that of a technician, providing efficient workflows, and offering the high degree of control required by practitioners. This set of previs tools should be easy to use — requiring less training than current software, efficient — requiring less man-hours, and effective — offering the same level of precision and control as the specialist tools employed at the moment. It should further support distributed teamwork, as production teams are often spread over many places and only meet in person for short bursts. More... InfoSys funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (07/2013 – 12/2014) In material sciences, a large amount of research data is generated through a broad spectrum of different experiments. As of today, the research data is often stored decentralized without generally accepted templates. Goal of the project is to establish a centralized information system for material sciences and to provide citable and (openly) accessible experimental data to the research community. More...
Talks	Marc Herrlich and Dirk Wenig (November 15, 2012) Natürlich realitätsbasiert – Interaktionsforschung am TZI World Usability Day (WUD) 2012. UPA Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

Selected Publications

BibTex of Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality copied to clipboard.

BibTex of Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality could not be copied to clipboard.

Thomas Muender, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Sean Drewes, Dirk Wenig, Tanja Döring and Rainer Malaka (2019) Does It Feel Real?: Using Tangibles with Different Fidelities to Build and Explore Scenes in Virtual Reality In CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA. doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300903 | BibTex

BibTex of Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks copied to clipboard.

BibTex of Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks could not be copied to clipboard.

Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Steffen Ernst, Rainer Malaka, Brent Hecht and Johannes Schöning (2017) Pharos: Improving Navigation Instructions on Smartwatches by Including Global Landmarks In MobileHCI '17: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 7.1-7.13. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3098279.3098529 | PDF of Paper | BibTex

BibTex of WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality copied to clipboard.

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Dirk Wenig, Johannes Schöning, Alex Olwal, Mathias Oben and Rainer Malaka (2017) WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 716-721. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3025453.3025852 | PDF of Paper | BibTex

BibTex of The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement copied to clipboard.

BibTex of The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement could not be copied to clipboard.

Ashley Colley, Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Allen Yilun Lin, Donald Degraen, Benjamin Fischman, Jonna Häkkilä, Kate Kuehl, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Nunes, Nina Wenig, Dirk Wenig, Brent Hecht and Johannes Schöning (2017) The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1179-1192. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/3025453.3025495 | PDF of Paper | BibTex

BibTex of ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches copied to clipboard.

BibTex of ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches could not be copied to clipboard.

Dirk Wenig, Alexander Steenbergen, Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht and Rainer Malaka (2016) ScrollingHome: Bringing Image-based Indoor Navigation to Smartwatches In MobileHCI '16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 400-406. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/2935334.2935373 | BibTex Honorable Mention Award

BibTex of StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches copied to clipboard.

BibTex of StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches could not be copied to clipboard.

Dirk Wenig, Johannes Schöning, Brent Hecht and Rainer Malaka (2015) StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches In MobileHCI '15: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 52-62. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 10.1145/2785830.2785862 | BibTex Best Paper Award

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Projects

VIVATOP funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF (11/2018 – 03/2020) New information technologies can help to supply surgeons with important information before and during surgeries, thereby noticeably increasing the chances of a successful outcome. Goal of the VIVATOP project is to use Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D printing to effectively support the planning and execution of surgeries as well as training and education scenarios. More...

first.stage funded by European Union, EU (02/2018 – 11/2019) The goal of the EU-project first.stage is to research, design, develop, evaluate, and showcase natural user interfaces that improve previsualisation in film, animation, and the performing arts by speaking the language of the artist rather than that of a technician, providing efficient workflows, and offering the high degree of control required by practitioners. This set of previs tools should be easy to use — requiring less training than current software, efficient — requiring less man-hours, and effective — offering the same level of precision and control as the specialist tools employed at the moment. It should further support distributed teamwork, as production teams are often spread over many places and only meet in person for short bursts. More...

InfoSys funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (07/2013 – 12/2014) In material sciences, a large amount of research data is generated through a broad spectrum of different experiments. As of today, the research data is often stored decentralized without generally accepted templates. Goal of the project is to establish a centralized information system for material sciences and to provide citable and (openly) accessible experimental data to the research community. More...

Talks

Marc Herrlich and Dirk Wenig (November 15, 2012) Natürlich realitätsbasiert – Interaktionsforschung am TZI World Usability Day (WUD) 2012. UPA Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

Teaching

Lectures	Advanced Topics in Digital Media: An HCI Perspective on Chatbots University of Bremen (Winter 2019/2020) FiT in MINT: Digital Media, Module Mobile Media Academy for Continuing Education, University of Bremen (Winter 2015/2016) Mobile/Ubiquitous Media University of Bremen (Summer 2018, Winter 2016/2017, Winter 2015/2016, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011)
Teaching Assistance	Mobile/Ubiquitous Media University of Bremen (Summer 2018, Winter 2016/2017, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011) Introduction to Digital Media University of Bremen (Summer 2010, Winter 2009/2010) Human-Computer Interaction University of Bremen (Winter 2017/2018) Entertainment Computing University of Bremen (Summer 2016)
Supervised Student Projects	PreVIZzARt/Previsualisation (Bachelor) University of Bremen (Summer 2018) Sportal/Entertainment Computing (Master) University of Bremen (Winter 2012/2013) MoVirWorld/Mobile Virtual Worlds (Bachelor) University of Bremen (Summer 2012, Winter 2011/2012)
Supervised Theses	Leon Hahne (2020) Entwicklung und Evaluierung eines intelligenten Sleep-Timers mit Hilfe von Wearables Master (Second Reviewer) Lena Carolina Philip (2020) Potentiale von Messengern im Rahmen von politischem Aktivismus in Bezug auf Sicherheit Bachelor (Second Reviewer) Roman Arzaroli (2020) Intuitive 3D-Model Search in VR using Natural User Interfaces in a Previsualization Context Master (Advisor) Tiaden Niklas Beyl (2020) Evaluation of Interaction Techniques with Virtual Reality Objects Bachelor (Advisor) All Theses...

Personal Activities and Skills

Academic Volunteering	Program Committee member Conference on Location Based Services (LBS) 2018, 2017 Local Organizer Global Game Jam 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Social Engagement	09/2002 – 02/2017 Emergency Medical Services, Rapid Response Unit (Schnelleinsatzgruppe Rettung) Administrative District of Rotenburg (Wümme) Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany
Memberships	CORRECT!V (CORRECTIV – Recherchen für die Gesellschaft gGmbH) FabLab Bremen e. V. German Red Cross (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz Kreisverband Bemen e.V., DRK) German Society for Computer Sciences (Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V., GI) German UPA (Berufsverband der Deutschen Usability und User Experience Professionals e. V.)
Mother Tongue	German
Other Languages	English (Language Certificate C1.1)