Andreas Butz - Publications

The following is a list of my publications, sorted by publication type and year, with links to abstracts and PDF files where appropriate. You can also have the corresponding automatically generated list with BibTeX entries for the full and correct references and save some work this way. My Erdös number is 3 (A. Butz -> Brian Fisher -> Maria Margaret Klawe -> P. Erdös)

[Journal Papers] [Conference Papers] [Edited Books] [Tech Reports, Theses] [Demonstrations] [Patents] [Talks] [Press]

Journal Papers

Lucia Terrenghi, Otmar Hilliges and Andreas Butz: "Kitchen Stories: Sharing Recipes with the Living Cookbook", special edition of ACM/Springer Journal on Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer Verlag 2006, Manuscript available as abstract and PDF.

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Applying the Peephole Metaphor in a Mixed-Reality Room", in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications,  Jan/Feb 2006, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, Manuscript available as abstract and PDF.

Christoph Endres, Andreas Butz, and Asa MacWilliams: "A Survey of Software Infrastructures and Frameworks for Ubiquitous Computing", in "Mobile Information Systems Journal" 1(1), Jan-Mar 2005, IOS press, Amsterdam, Manuscript available as abstract and PDF.

Andreas Butz: "Between location awareness and aware locations: where to put the intelligence", in Applied Artificial Intelligence, Special Issue on AI in Mobile Systems, 18(6), June 2004, Manuscript available as abstract and PDF.

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Orts- und richtungsabhängige Informationspräsentation auf mobilen Geräten", Informationstechnik und Technische Informatik, 43(2), Oldenbourg, 2001.

Conference and Workshop Papers

2008

Dominikus Baur, Otmar Hilliges and Andreas Butz: "Flux: Enhancing photo organization through interaction and automation", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics (SG08), Springer LNCS, available as PDF.

Chen Yaxi and Andreas Butz: "PhotoSim: Tightly Integrating Image Analysis into a Photo Browsing UI", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics (SG08), Springer LNCS, available as PDF.

Lucia Terrenghi, Torsten Fritsche and Andreas Butz: "Designing Environments for Collaborative Video Editing", in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE08, IET, 2008, available as PDF.

Michael Sedlmair, Wolfgang Hintermaier, Konrad Stocker, Thorsten Büring and Andreas Butz: "A Dual-View Visualization of In-car Communication Processes", in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV08, available as PDF and as a Video.

Mira Spassova and Andreas Butz: "Beam-Its - Virtual Sticky Notes in the Real World", in Adjunct Proceedings of Pervasive 2008, OCG, 2008, available as abstract and PDF.

Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Krämer, Otmar Hilliges and Andreas Butz: "Physical Handles at the Interactive Surface: Exploring Tangibility and its Benefits", in Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008), available as PDF.

Michael Schmitz, Christoph Endres and Andreas Butz: "A Survey of Human-Computer Interaction Design in Science Fiction Movies", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment (Intetain 2008), available as abstract and PDF, talk slides and podcast.

2007

Otmar Hilliges, Dominikus Baur and Andreas Butz: "Photohelix: Browsing, Sorting and Sharing Digital Photo Collections", in Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE TABLETOP Workshop, Newport, Rhode Island, 2007, available as abstract and PDF

Sebastian Boring, Manuela Altendorfer, Gregor Broll, Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz "Shoot & Copy: Phonecam-Based Information Transfer from Public Displays onto Mobile Phones", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility), Singapore, Sep. 2007, available as abstract

Otmar Hilliges, Maria Wagner, Lucia Terrenghi and Andreas Butz: "The Living-Room: Browsing, Organizing and Presenting Digital Image Collections in Interactive Environments", in Proceedings of "Intelligent Environments 2007", available as abstract and PDF

Carmen Eisendle, Christine Schnappinger, Karin Guminski and Andreas Butz: "Design and Evaluation of an Interactive Children's Book", in Proceedings of "Mensch und Computer 2007" (MC2007), available as abstract and PDF. See also the book's website www.huhnoderei.de.gg.

Otmar Hilliges, Lucia Terrenghi, Sebastian Boring, David Kim, Hendrik Richter and Andreas Butz: "Designing for Collaborative Creative Problem Solving", in Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition 2007, ACM press, available as abstract and PDF

Otmar Hilliges, Peter Kunath, Alexey Pryakhin, Andreas Butz and Hans-Peter Kriegel: "Browsing and Sorting Digital Pictures Using Automatic Image Classification and Quality Analysis.", in Proceedings of HCI International 2007, available as abstract and PDF

Sebastian Boring, Otmar Hilliges and Andreas Butz: "A Wall-sized Focus plus Context Display", in Proceedings of the 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Comunications (PerCom 2007), available as abstract and PDF

2006

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "User-centered Development of a Pervasive Healthcare Application", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2006, available as abstract and PDF

Michael Schmitz and Andreas Butz: "SAFIR: Low-cost spatial sound for instrumented environments", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments, IE06, Athens, Greece, July 2006, available as abstract and PDF

Otmar Hilliges, Phillipp Holzer, Rene Klüber and Andreas Butz: "Audio Radar: A metaphorical visualization for the navigation of large music collections", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Vamcouver, Canada, July 23 - 25, 2006, available as abstract and PDF

Lucia Terrenghi, Torsten Fritsche and Andreas Butz: "The EnLighTable: Design of Affordances to Support Collaborative Creativity", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Vamcouver, Canada, July 23 - 25, 2006, available as abstract and PDF

2005

Andreas Butz and Michael Schmitz: "Design and applications of a beer mat for pub interaction", in: Proceedings of Ubicomp 2005, September 11—14, 2005, Tokyo, Japan, available as abstract and PDF

Dennis Reiter and Andreas Butz: "Design and Implementation of a Widget Set for Steerable Projector-Camera Units", in: Proceedings of ISMAR 2005, October 5-8, 2005, Vienna, Austria, ailable as abstract, PDF and as an unpublished extended version with proper references and more technical detail.

Andreas Butz and Christian Schmitz: "Annotating Real World objects using a Steerable Projector-Camera Unit", in: Proceedings of "IEEE International Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (Procams 2005)", June 25, 2005, San Diego, California, USA, In conjunction with CVPR 2005, available as abstract and PDF

Michael Schneider, Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Flash and Peep: A Robust Method for Finding and Tracking Displays", in: Proceedings of the IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments (IE 2005), University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2005, available as abstract and PDF

Michael Schneider and Andreas Butz: "Wipe it! A Direct Manipulation Technique for Ubiquitous Information Items", in: Proceedings of the IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments (IE 2005), University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2005, available as abstract and PDF

Ralf Jung and Andreas Butz: "Effectiveness of User Notification in Ambient Soundscapes", in Proceedings of the workshop on Auditory Displays for Mobile Context-Aware Systems (on conference DVD) at Pervasive 2005, 8-13 May, 2005, Munich, Germany, available as abstract and PDF

Andreas Butz, Michael Schmitz, Antonio Krüger and Harald Hullmann: "Tangible UIs for Media Control - Probes Into the Design Space", in CHI 2005 (Design Expo), April 2 - 7 Portland, Oregon, USA, available as abstract and PDF

Andreas Butz and Ralf Jung: "Seamless User Notification in Ambient Soundscapes", in Proceedings of IUI 2005, January 10-13, 2005, San Diego, California, USA, available as abstract and PDF

2004

Andreas Butz, Michael Schneider, and Mira Spassova: "SearchLight - A Lightweight Search Function for Pervasive Environments", in Proceedings of Pervasive 2004, Springer LNCS, available as abstract and PDF

Antonio Krüger, Andreas Butz, Christian Müller, Christoph Stahl, Rainer Wasinger, Karl-Ernst Steinberg and Andreas Dirschl: "The Connected User Interface: Realizing a Personal Situated Navigation Service", in Proceedings of IUI 2004, January 13-16, 2004, Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, available as abstract and PDF

Andreas Butz, Markus Groß and Antonio Krüger: "TUISTER: a Tangible UI for Hierarchical Structures", in Proceedings of IUI 2004, January 13-16, 2004, Madeira, Funchal, Portugal, available as abstract and PDF

2003

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "A Generalized Peephole Metaphor for Augmented Reality and Instrumented Environments", in Proceedings of The International Workshop on Software Technology for Augmented Reality Systems (STARS), Oct. 7, 2003 in Tokyo, Japan, available as abstract and PDF

Andreas Butz, Markus Groß and Antonio Krüger: "TUISTER: a Tangible UI for Hierarchical Structures", in Proceedings of PI03: Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, held at Mobile HCI 2003, Udine, Italy, 2003, available as abstract and PDF

2002

Andreas Butz: "Taming the urge to click: Adapting the User Interface of a mobile museum guide", Proceedings of ABIS 2002, available as abstract and PDF

Thorsten Bohnenberger, Anthony Jameson, Antonio Krüger and Andreas Butz: "Location-Aware Shopping Assistance: Evaluation of a Decision-Theoretic Approach", Proceedings of the Mobile HCI 2002 symposium, Pisa 18-20 September 2002, Springer LNCS series 2002, available as abstract and PDF

Thorsten Bohnenberger, Anthony Jameson, Antonio Krüger and Andreas Butz: "User Acceptance of a Decision-Theoretic, Location-Aware Shopping Guide", Proceedings of IUI2002: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM Press, New York, available as abstract and PDF and also from http://dfki.de/~jameson/abs/BohnenbergerJK+02.html.

2001

Andreas Butz, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger and Marco Lohse: "Some Remarks on Automated Sketch Generation for Mobile Route Descriptions", in: "Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Smart Graphics", ACM Press, 2001, available as abstract and PDF.

Andreas Butz, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger and Marco Lohse: "A Hybrid Indoor Navigation System", Proceedings of IUI2001: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2001, ACM Press, New York, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript.

2000

Andreas Butz, Jörg Baus and Antonio Krüger: "Augmenting Buildings with Infrared Information", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Augmented Reality ISAR 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, P.O. Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, available as abstract, PDF, Postscript and HTML.

Thorsten Bohnenberger and Andreas Butz: "Decision-theoretic planning of navigation instructions", Workshop notes of the ECAI 2000 workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems, August 22, 2000, Berlin, Germany, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Andreas Butz, Jörg Baus and Antonio Krüger: "Different Views on Location Awareness", Workshop notes of the ECAI 2000 workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems, August 22, 2000, Berlin, Germany, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Jörg Baus, Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Incorporating a Virtual Presenter in a Resource Adaptive Navigational Help System", Workshop notes of the Workshop on Guiding Users through Interactive Experiences, Paderborn, Germany, April 13.-14. 2000, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Antonio Krüger, Jörg Baus and Andreas Butz: "Smart Graphics in Adaptive Way Descriptions", Proceedings of the working conference on "Advanced Visual Interfaces" (AVI 2000), May 24-26, 2000, Palermo, ITALY, ACM Press 2000, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Jörg Baus, Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Marco Lohse and Cyrille Breihof: "Some Aspects of Scouting Smart Environments", In: "Smart Graphics: Papers from the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Technical Report SS-00-04, AAAI press 2000, ISBN 1-57735-110-X, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

1999

Andreas Butz, Tobias Höllerer, Steven Feiner, Blair MacIntyre and Clifford Beshers: "Enveloping Users and Computers in a Collaborative 3D Augmented Reality", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Augmented Reality IWAR '99, IEEE Computer Society Press, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, P.O. Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Jörg Baus, Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "One Way Interaction: interactivity over unidirectional links", Proceedings of the I3 workshop on Adaptive Design of Interactive Multimedia Presentations for Mobile Users, Sunday, March 7, 1999, http://www.i3net.org/, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

before 1999

Andreas Butz, Clifford Beshers and Steven Feiner: "Of Vampire Mirrors and Privacy Lamps: Privacy Management in Multi-User Augmented Environments", Proceedings of UIST '98, San Francisco, 1998, ACM press, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Andreas Butz: "Anymation with CATHI", Proceedings of AAAI/IAAI '97 in Providence / Rhode island, available as PDF

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Zur Auswahl von Abstraktionsgraden" (in german), in O.Deussen, P.Lorenz (Hrsg.): "Simulation und Animation '97", Magdeburg, 1997, ISBN 1-56555-111-7, available as PDF.

Andreas Butz and Antonio Krüger: "Lean Modelling - The intelligent use of geometrical abstraction in 3D animations", Proceedings of ECAI '96 in Budapest, available as PDF.

Andreas Butz: "Betty: Planning and Generating Animations for the Visualization of Movements and Spatial Relations" In: Advanced Visual Interfaces (Proceedings of AVI '94, Bari, Italy) ACM Press 1994, available as PDF

Edited Books and Proceedings

Andreas Butz, Brian Fisher, Antonio Krüger, Patrick Olivier and Shigeru Owada (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Seventh International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG2007, Kyoto, Japan, Proceedings", Springer LNCS 4569, see also Seventh International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Brian Fisher, Antonio Krüger and Patrick Olivier (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Sixth International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG2006, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Proceedings", Springer LNCS, see also Sixth International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger and Patrick Olivier (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Fifth International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG2005, Cloister Frauenwoerth, near Munich, Germany, 2005, Proceedings", Springer LNCS, see also Fifth International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Alois Ferscha, Rene Mayrhofer, Thomas Strang, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Anind Dey, Andreas Butz and Albrecht Schmidt (Eds.): "Advances in Pervasive Computing", Adjunct Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005), Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2005, ISBN 3-85403-191-2

Andreas Butz, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger, Albrecht Schmidt and Helmut Prendinger (Eds.): "2nd Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces 2005 (MU3I 2005)" in Conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2005), SFB 378 Memo Nr. 85, ISSN 0944-7822, available as PDF

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger and Patrick Olivier (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Fourth International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG2004, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, May 2004, Proceedings", Springer LNCS 3031, see also Fourth International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Christian Kray, Antonio Krüger and Albrecht Schmidt (Eds.): "Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces 2005 (MU3I 2004)" in Conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2004), SFB 378 Memo Nr. 83, ISSN 0944-7822, available as PDF

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger and Patrick Olivier (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Third International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG2003, Heidelberg, Germany, July 2003, Proceedings", Springer LNCS 2733, see also Third International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Patrick Olivier, Stefan Schlechtweg and Michelle Zhou (Eds.): "Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Smart Graphics", ACM Press, 2002, see also Second International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Patrick Olivier and Michelle Zhou (Eds.): "Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Smart Graphics", ACM Press, 2001, see also First International Symposium on Smart Graphics

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger and Patrick Olivier (Eds.): "Smart Graphics: Papers from the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Technical Report SS-00-04, AAAI press 2000, ISBN 1-57735-110-X.

Theses, Tech Reports

Wolf-Tilo Balke et al.: "Bonner Thesen - Ein Aktionsplan der Jungen Informatik", A position paper about future directions for research in computer science, as well as suggestions for the German academic system (in German, online publication only), available as HTML and PDF

Andreas Butz, Tobias Höllerer, Clifford Beshers, Steven Feiner and Blair MacIntyre: "An Experimental Hybrid User Interface for Collaboration", Columbia University, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report CUCS-005-99, available as abstract, PDF and Postscript

Andreas Butz: "Ein inkrementeller Ansatz zur Generierung informativer 3D-Animationen" (in german), PhD Dissertation, Universitaet des Saarlandes 1997, available as PDF.

Andreas Butz: "Betty: Planung und Generierung informativer Animationssequenzen" (in german), Diplomarbeit, Universitaet des Saarlandes 1994, also as DFKI document (D-95-02), DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken 1995, available as PDF.

Andreas Butz: "Grammar-based incremental generation of 3D-animation scripts and its generic implementation in LISP", DFKI technical report, available as PDF.

Demonstrations, Videos

Andreas Butz, Otmar Hilliges, , Lucia Terrenghi and Dominikus Baur: "Hybrid Widgets on an Interactive Tabletop", in Extended Abstracts of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Innsbruck, Austria, Sep. 2007, available as abstract and as PDF

Sebastian Boring, Manuela Altendorfer, Gregor Broll, Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz "Shoot & Copy: Phonecam-Based Information Transfer from Public Displays onto Mobile Phones", in Extended Abstracts of the Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Innsbruck, Austria, Sep. 2007, available as abstract and as PDF

S. Feiner, B. Bell, E. Gagas, S. Güven, D. Hallaway, T. Höllerer, S. Lok, N. Tinna, R. Yamamoto, S. Julier, Y. Baillot, D. Brown, M. Lanzagorta, A. Butz, E. Foxlin, M. Harrington, L. Naimark, and D. Wormell: "Mobile Augmented Reality Systems". ACM SIGGRAPH (Emerging Technologies), Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 12-17, 2001, available as PDF.

Elisabeth Andre, Wolfgang Finkler, Winfried Graf, Karin Harbusch, Jochen Heinsohn, Anne Kilger, Bernhard Nebel, Hans-Jürgen Profitlich, Thomas Rist, Wolfgang Wahlster, Andreas Butz, Anthony Jameson: "WIP: From Multimedia to Intellimedia" (Video), in Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 95, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 20-25 1995, p. 2053-2054. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995, available as PDF

Patents

Andreas Butz, Otmar Hilliges, Lucia Terrenghi: "Digitales Informationsverarbeitungssystem mit Benutzerinteraktionselement" Deutsches Patent Nr. 10 2006 051 967.1 (pending), Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, 03.11.2006

Andreas Butz, Michael Schmitz, Matthias Hahnen, Robert Dörr: "Interaktiver Behälteruntersetzer", Deutsches Gebrauchsmuster Nr. DE 20 2006 003 621-0, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, 06.03.2006

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Markus Groß: "Eingabe- und Ausgabeeinheit für Informationen", Deutsches Patent Nr. 10341045, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, 21.12.2003

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Christoph Bartelmus: "Vorrichtung zur Anzeige von Informationen", Deutsches Gebrauchsmuster Nr. 200 19 794.0, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, 22.02.2001

Andreas Butz, Antonio Krüger, Christoph Bartelmus: "Navigations- und Informationssystem basierend auf Infrarottechnik", Deutsches Gebrauchsmuster Nr. 200 06 566.1, Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, 17.08.2000

Selected Talks

"Physical Qualities of Interaction", invited talk at the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI-08), available as PDF slides and Flash Video.

My acceptance speech for the Alcatel Lucent Research Award, 20 minutes without any slides, available as a 119MB MP4 video.

"A Survey of Human-Computer Interaction Design in Science Fiction Movies", presentation at the 2nd International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment (Intetain 2008), available as PDF slides and podcast.

"Interaktion mit Ubiquitären Computern und Medien", Ringvorlesung "Perspektiven der Informatik", Saarbrücken, 06.01.2004, available as PDF slides.

Selected Press and Media about my Research

"Wenn Maus und Tastatur ausgedient haben", a portrait in the bimonthly DFG Magazine Forschung, available as PDF.

"Aus für die Maus", an article in the quarterly MünchnerUni Magazin, available as PDF.

ZDF Drehscheibe 29.10.07, a TV report on ZDF about the Alcatel Lucent Research Award for the work of my research group, available as a 66MB AVI file or a 45MB WMV file.

"Computer erobern den Alltag", an article in the LMU popular science annual Einsichten, available as PDF.

The Beer mat press coverage, where our interactive beer mat was featured on CNN, BBC, Slashdot, BILD, and some 50 other international publications, as well as several radio and TV stations.