My research focuses on mobile HCI, pervasive computing, human-computer interaction and mobile computing. In the last years I worked primarily on multimodal interfaces and the combination of users, mobile devices, and physical object. I’m also interested in upscaling mobile HCI research by conducting studies using apps devployed in mobile application stores.
Publications
2013
- Niels Henze, Martin Pielot: App Stores: External Validity for Mobile HCI, ACM Interactions, 2013
- Alireza Sahami, Niels Henze, Kai Kunze, Schmidt Albrecht: Upright or Sideways? Analysis of Smartphone Postures in the Wild, Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2013
- Elba del Carmen Valderrama Bahamondez, Thomas Kubitza, Niels Henze, Schmidt Albrecht: Analysis of Children’s Handwriting on Touchscreen Phones, Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2013, 2013
- Alireza Sahami, Niels Henze, Robin Goldberg, Benjamin Schmidt, Hansjörg Schmauder, Albrecht Schmidt: Insights into Layout Patterns of Mobile User Interfaces by an Automatic Analysis of Android Apps, Proceedings of EICS, 2013
- Nora Broy, Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegaß, Niels Henze and Albrecht Schmidt: Perceiving Layered Information on 3D Displays Using Binocular Disparity, Proceedings of PerDis, 2013
- Bastian Pfleging, Dominique Rau, Bastian Reitschuster, Niels Henze, Albrecht Schmidt: Influence of Subliminal Cueing on Visual Search Tasks, Proceedings of CHI (work in progress), 2013
- Johannes Knittel, Alireza Sahami, Niels Henze, Albrecht Schmidt: Utilizing Contextual Information for Mobile Communication, Proceedings of CHI (work in progress), 2013
- Niels Henze, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Martin Pielot, Florian Michahelles, Albrecht Schmidt: Empirical Research through Ubiquitous Data Collection, IEEE Computer Magazine (column, in print), 2013
2012
- Niels Henze, Enrico Rukzio, Susanne Boll: Observational and Experimental Investigation of Typing Behaviour using Virtual Keyboards on Mobile Devices (talk), Proceedings of CHI, 2012 (best paper award)
- Niels Henze: Hit It! – An Apparatus for Upscaling Mobile HCI Studies (slides), Finalist of the CHI Student Serious Game Competition, 2012
- Niels Henze: Ten male colleagues took part in our lab-study about mobile texting (slides), Proceedings of the Workshop on Designing and Evaluating Text Entry Methods in conjunction with CHI, 2012
- Niels Henze: Camera-based Mobile Interaction with Physical Objects, PhD Thesis, olwir, ISBN-13 978-3-939704-93-5, 2012
- Heiko Müller, Martin Pielot, Tobias Hesselmann, Benjamin Poppinga, Wilko Heuten, Jutta Fortmann, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: AmbiX: Designing Ambient Light Information Displays, Proceedings of the DIS workshop on Designing Interactive Lighting, 2012
- Benjamin Poppinga, Niels Henze, Jutta Fortmann, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll: AmbiGlasses – Information in the Periphery of the Visual Field, Proceedings of Mensch & Computer, 2012 (honourable mention)
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Camera-Based Mobile Interaction Techniques for Physical Objects, Adjunct proceedings of MobileHCI, 2012
- Niels Henze, Benjamin Poppinga: Measuring Latency of Touch and Tactile Feedback in Touchscreen Interaction Using a Mobile Game, Proceedings of the Workshop on Research in the Large in conjunction with MobileHCI, 2012
- Dirk Ahlers, Niels Henze: ¿Donde está? – Surveying Local Search in Honduras, Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobility and Web Behavior in conjunction with MobileHCI, 2012
2011
- Niels Henze, Enrico Rukzio, Susanne Boll: 100,000,000 Taps: Analysis and Improvement of Touch Performance in the Large (slides), Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2011 (best paper award)
- Andreas Löcken, Tobias Hesselmann, Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: User-centred process for the definition of free-hand gestures applied to controlling music playback, Multimedia Systems, 2011
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Release Your App on Sunday Eve: Finding the Best Time to Deploy Apps (poster), Adjunct proceedings of MobileHCI, 2011
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: It does not Fitts my data! Analysing large amounts of mobile touch data (poster), Adjunct proceedings of Interact, 2011
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Who’s that girl? Handheld Augmented Reality for Printed Photobooks (slides), Proceedings of Interact, 2011
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Experiments in App Stores – How to Ask Users for their Consent?, Proceedings of the CHI workshop on Ethics, logs & videotape, 2011
- Niels Henze, Martin Pielot, Benjamin Poppinga, Torben Schinke, Susanne Boll: My App is an Experiment: Experience from User Studies in Mobile App Stores (preprint), International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), 2011
2010
- Niels Henze, Andreas Löcken, Tobias Hesselmann, Martin Pielot and Susanne Boll: Free-Hand Gestures for Music Playback: Deriving Gestures with a User-Centred Process (slides), Proceedings of Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2010
- Tobias Hesselmann, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: FlashLight: Optical Communication between Mobile Phones and Interactive Tabletops, Proceedings of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, 2010
- Niels Henze, Benjamin Poppinga, Susanne Boll: Experiments in the Wild: Public Evaluation of Off-Screen Visualizations in the Android Market (slides), Proceedings of NordiCHI, 2010
- Benjamin Poppinga, Charlotte Magnusson, Wilko Heuten, David McGookin, Niels Henze, Ginger B. Claassen, Martin Pielot, Hakan Eftring, Jörn Peters: Observing the Mobile User Experience: Workshop in conjunction with NordiCHI 2010, ISSN 2190-8427, 2010
- Benjamin Poppinga, Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Unsupervised User Observation in the App Store – Experiences with the Sensor-based Evaluation of a Mobile Pedestrian Navigation Application, Proceedings of the Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience in conjunction with NordiCHI 2010
- Enrico Rukzio, Andreas Zimmermann, Niels Henze, Xavier Righetti (guest eds.): Special Issue on Mobile Interaction with the Real World, International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), 2010
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Push the Study to the App Store: Evaluating Off-Screen Visualizations for Maps in the Android Market (poster/madness slides), Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2010
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Evaluation of an Off-Screen Visualization for Magic Lens and Dynamic Peephole Interfaces (slides), Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2010
- Torben Schinke, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Visualization of Off-Screen Objects in Mobile Augmented Reality (slides), Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2010
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Designing a CD Augmentation for Mobile Phones (poster), Proceedings of CHI (work in progress), 2010
2009
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Supporting Map-Based Wayfinding with Tactile Cues, Proceedings of MobileHCI, 2009
- Niels Henze, Torben Schinke, Susanne Boll: What is That? Object Recognition from Natural Features on a Mobile Phone, Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World, 2009
- Andreas Zimmermann, Niels Henze, Xavier Righetti, Enrico Rukzio (Eds.): Mobile Interaction with the Real World: Workshop in conjunction with Mobile HCI 2009, ISBN 978-3-8142-2177-X, 2009
2008
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Christian Nickel, Christian Menke, Sören Samadi, Susanne Boll: Evaluation of Camera Phone Based Interaction to Access Information Related to Posters, Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World, 2008
- Niels Henze, Gregor Broll, Enrico Rukzio, Michael Rohs, Andreas Zimmermann (Eds.): Mobile Interaction with the Real World: Workshop in conjunction with Mobile HCI 2008, ISBN 978-3-8142-2134-2, 2008
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll: Evaluation of Continuous Direction Encoding with Tactile Belts, 3rd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, 2008
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: FriendSense: Sensing your Social Net at Night, Night and darkness: Interaction after dark Workshop@CHI08, 2008
- Thomas Schlömer, Benjamin Poppinga, Susanne Boll, Niels Henze: Gesture Recognition with a Wii Controller, Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction, 2008
- Niels Henze, Enrico Rukzio, Andreas Lorenz, Xavier Righetti, Susanne Boll: Physical-Virtual Linkage with Contextual Bookmarks, Supplementary conference proceedings of MobileHCI, 2008
- Niels Henze, Rene Reiners, Xavier Righetti, Enrico Rukzio, Susanne Boll: Services Surround You: Physical-Virtual Linkage with Contextual Bookmarks, The Visual Computer, 2008
- Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Snap and Share Your Photobooks, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia, 2008
- Wilko Heuten, Niels Henze, Martin Pielot, Susanne Boll: Tactile Wayfinder: A Non-Visual Support System for Wayfinding, Proceedings of NordiCHI, 2008
- Niels Henze, Gregor Broll, Enrico Rukzio, Michael Rohs, Andreas Zimmermann: Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World, Supplementary conference proceedings of MobileHCI, 2008
- Wilko Heuten, Niels Henze (Anmelder: OFFIS e.V.): Tragbares Orientierungssystem, Patent, Anmeldedatum 10.04.2007, Offenlegungstag 30.10.2008
2007
- Wilko Heuten, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll, Palle Klante: AuditoryPong – Playing PONG in the Dark, Audio Mostly 2007 – 2nd Conference on Interaction with Sound, 2007
- Niels Henze, Mingyu Lim, Andreas Lorenz, Michael Mueller, Xavier Righetti, Enrico Rukzio, Andreas Zimmermann, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Susanne Boll, Daniel Thalmann: Contextual Bookmarks, Mobile Interaction with the Real World, 2007
- Wilko Heuten, Niels Henze, Susanne Boll: Interactive Exploration of City Maps with Auditory Torches, Supplementary conference proceedings of CHI, 2007
- Martin Pielot, Niels Henze, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll: Tangible User Interface for the Exploration of Auditory City Maps, 2nd International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, 2007
2006
- Niels Henze, Wilko Heuten, Susanne Boll: Non-Intrusive Somatosensory Navigation Support for Blind Pedestrians, Proceedings of Eurohaptics, 2006