Biography | florian-alt.de

Professional Experience

since 05/2018	Full Professor in Usable Security and Privacy
	Bundeswehr University, Munich I hold an appointment as full professor in usable security and privacy at the Bundeswehr University (Munich). I am interested in the human factor in IT security with a particular interest in behavioural biometrics, social engineering, and cyber attacks. Besides I am interested in novel interfaces based on physiological sensing (eye tracking, EEG), interaction in public space, automotive user interfaces, and VR.
10/2013 – 04/2018	Assistant Professor for Media Informatics
	Group for Media Informatics, University of Munich I held a full-time appointment as an assistant professor in the group for media informatics (Medieninformatik). I am researching at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and HCI. My particular research interests are on open pervasive displays, cognitive effects of interaction, 3D displays, and usable security.
01/2012 – 09/2013	Senior Researcher (Post-Doc) / Research Associate
	Group for Human-Computer Interaction, Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (SimTech), University of Stuttgart I held a full-time appointment as a research associate (since 01/2013 as post-doc) in the group for Human-Computer Interaction (Mensch-Computer Interaktion), teaching and researching in the area of HCI and pervasive computing. My particular research interests were on pervasive displays and context-sensitive advertising.
03/2013 – 10/2013	Guest Lecturer
	Johann-Kepler University, Linz In summer 2013 I am teaching the course ‘Unconventional User Interfaces’. My responsibilities include creating the teaching material, assignments, and exams as well as giving lectures and tutorials.
03/2012 – 10/2012	Guest Lecturer
	University of Duisburg-Essen I held an assignment as lecturer for the course ‘Pervasive Computing’ (summer term 2012). My responsibilities included creating the teaching material, assignments, and exams as well as giving lectures and tutorials.
12/2010 – 05/2011	Visiting Researcher
	Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technical University of Berlin In 2011 I was a visiting research in the group of Prof. Dr. Jörg Müller at the Telekom Innovation Labs in Berlin. During my appointment I co-edited the book “Pervasive Advertising” (Springer HCI Series) and investigated interaction with public displays.
04/2008 – 12/2011	Research Associate
	Group for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering, Paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen I held a full-time appointment as researcher and PhD student in the group for “Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering”. In teaching I was responsible for creating learning material and giving courses and lectures. In research I was engaged in the European project ‘PD-Net’ (www.pd-net.org). In addition I acquired and supervised research projects.
12/2007 – 03/2008	IT Specialist
	Schreiner MediPharm LP, New York, US During my appointment I was responsible for setting up and maintaining the IT infrastructure (network, telephone system, access control) of the company’s new manufacturing site in Northern America.

Education

since 01/2012	University of Stuttgart, Germany
	PhD student Dissertation: A Design Space for Pervasive Advertising on Public Displays Research focus: implicit and explicit interaction with public displays, pervasive advertising
04/2008 – 12/2011	University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
	PhD student Research focus: mobile user interfaces, automotive user interfaces, public displays as future communication medium
09/2001 – 09/2007	University of Munich, Germany
	Diploma Major: Media Informatics Minor: Communication Science.
02/2007 – 09/2007	Fraunhofer IAIS, Bonn, Germany
	Diploma Thesis Title: An Annotation Platform for the World Wide Web
02/2001 – 01/2007	Schreiner Group, Munich, Germany
	Student Trainee Purchase, IT support, and administration.
11/2005 – 06/2006	Klinikum rechts der Isar (Hospital), Munich, Germany
	Project Thesis Title: Implicit Annotations and Self-Explanatory Medical Images
02/2005 – 09/2005	Pinnacle Systems, Inc. / Avid Technologies, Mountain View, US
	Internship Web development with AJAX and PHP
09/1999 – 08/2001	Technical University of Munich, Germany
	Student Major: Computer Science Minor: Business Administration

Organizing Committees:	MobileHCI 2015: Workshop Chair MobileHCI 2014: Publication Chair, Local Arrangements TEI 2014: Publication Chair, Local Arrangements MUM 2013: Publicity Chair Augmented Human 2013: Publication Chair, Local Arrangements MUM 2012: Demo Chair PerDis 2012: Publication Chair Pervasive 2010: SV Chair PerAd 2012: Organizer PerAd2011: Organizer PerAd2010: Organizer
Program Committees:	MUM (Program Chair): 2016, (Papers and Notes): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 PerDis (Program Chair): 2015, (Papers and Notes): 2012-2014, 2016 NordiCHI (Papers): 2016 DIS (Papers): 2016, 2017 Augmented Human (Papers): 2015 Mensch und Computer (Papers): 2015 CHI (Work-in-Progress): 2012-2015 MobileHCI (Posters): 2014 WWW (Papers and Notes): 2012, 2013 NIME (Papers and Notes): 2010 PerPart (Workshop): 2013 PETMEI (Workshop): 2012, 2013, 2015 UCMC (Workshop): 2013 Sociable (Workshop): 2013 PDIT (Workshop): 2012 CAIA (Workshop): 2010
Journal Reviewing:	ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM ToCHI) (since 2013) ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (ACM ToMM) (since 2014) ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (ACM TSAS) (since 2014) IEEE Computer Magazine (since 2012) IEEE Pervasive Computing (since 2011) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (since 2012) Management Review Quarterly (since 2014) Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB) (since 2013) Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier) (since 2012)
Conference Reviewing:	CHI (Papers and Notes, Work in Progress, alt.chi): 2010-2017 Ubicomp (Papers and Notes): 2008-2016 MobileHCI (Papers and Notes): 2011-2016 CSCW (Papers): 2014 Interact (Papers): 2009, 2015 TEI (Papers): 2014, 2016 Ubicomp (Papers and Notes): 2008-2016 NordiCHI (Papers and Notes): 2012, 2014 DIS (Papers): 2012, 2014 EICS (Papers): 2013 Augmented Human (Papers): 2013 Pervasive (Papers and Notes): 2010-2012 PerCom (Papers, Work-in-Progress): 2009, 2012 ITS (Papers): 2011, 2012, 2014 MUM (Papers): 2010, 2011 MobiSys (Papers): 2009 Informatik (Papers): 2009

Honorable Mention Award CHI 2015

Max Pfeiffer, Tim Duente, Stefan Schneegass, Florian Alt, and Michael Rohs. Cruise Control for Pedestrians: Controlling Walking Direction using Electrical Muscle Stimulation. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI ’15, 2015.
[Bibtex] [PDF]

@InProceedings{pfeiffer2015chi,
Title = {{Cruise Control for Pedestrians: Controlling Walking Direction using Electrical Muscle Stimulation}},
Author = {Pfeiffer, Max AND Duente, Tim AND Schneegass, Stefan AND Alt, Florian AND Rohs, Michael},
Booktitle = {{Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}},
Year = {2015},
Series = {CHI '15},
Keywords = {Pedestrian navigation; electrical muscle stimulation; haptic feedback; actuated navigation; wearable devices},
Timestamp = {2015.04.28}
}

Honorable Mention Award MobileHCI 2015

Daniel Buschek, Alexander De Luca, and Florian Alt. There is more to Typing than Speed: Expressive Mobile Touch Keyboards via Dynamic Font Personalisation. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI ’15, New York, NY, USA, 2015. ACM.
[Bibtex] [PDF]

@InProceedings{buschek2015mobilehci,
Title = {{There is more to Typing than Speed: Expressive Mobile Touch Keyboards via Dynamic Font Personalisation}},
Author = {Buschek, Daniel and De Luca, Alexander and Alt, Florian},
Booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services}},
Year = {2015},
Address = {New York, NY, USA},
Publisher = {ACM},
Series = {MobileHCI '15},
Location = {Copenhagen, Denmark},
Numpages = {6},
Timestamp = {2015.08.23}
}

Best Paper Award CHI 2012

Jörg Müller, Robert Walter, Gilles Bailly, Michael Nischt, and Florian Alt. Looking Glass: A Field Study on Noticing Interactivity of a Shop Window. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI’12, pages 297-306, New York, NY, USA, apr 2012. ACM.
[Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]

@InProceedings{mueller-chi12-looking-glass,
Title = {{Looking Glass: A Field Study on Noticing Interactivity of a Shop Window}},
Author = {M\"{u}ller, J\"{o}rg and Walter, Robert and Bailly, Gilles and Nischt, Michael and Alt, Florian},
Booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}},
Year = {2012},
Address = {New York, NY, USA},
Month = {apr},
Pages = {297--306},
Publisher = {ACM},
Series = {CHI'12},
Acmid = {2207718},
Doi = {10.1145/2207676.2207718},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-1015-4},
Keywords = {interactivity, noticing interactivity, public displays, User representation},
Location = {Austin, Texas, USA},
Numpages = {10},
Owner = {flo},
Timestamp = {2012.05.01},
Url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2207676.2207718}
}

Best Paper Award AmI 2009

Florian Alt, Moritz Balz, Stefanie Kristes, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Julian Mennenöh, Albrecht Schmidt, Hendrik Schröder, and Michael Gödicke. Adaptive User Profiles in Pervasive Advertising Environments. In Proceedings of the european conference on ambient intelligence, AmI’09, pages 276-286, Berlin, Heidelberg, nov 2009. Springer-Verlag.
[Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]

@InProceedings{alt-ami09-adaptive-profiles,
Title = {{Adaptive User Profiles in Pervasive Advertising Environments}},
Author = {Alt, Florian and Balz, Moritz and Kristes, Stefanie and Shirazi, Alireza Sahami and Mennen\"{o}h, Julian and Schmidt, Albrecht and Schr\"{o}der, Hendrik and G\"{o}dicke, Michael},
Booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence},
Year = {2009},
Address = {Berlin, Heidelberg},
Month = {nov},
Pages = {276--286},
Publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
Series = {AmI'09},
Acmid = {1694666},
Doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-05408-2_32},
ISBN = {978-3-642-05407-5},
Location = {Salzburg, Austria},
Numpages = {11},
Timestamp = {2009.11.01},
Url = {alt-ami09-adaptive-profiles.pdf}
}

Furthermore I won two Special Recognition Awards for Exceptional Reviews at the CHI 2014 and CHI 2015 conference.

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Professional Experience

Bundeswehr University, Munich

Group for Media Informatics, University of Munich

Group for Human-Computer Interaction, Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (SimTech), University of Stuttgart

Johann-Kepler University, Linz

University of Duisburg-Essen

Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technical University of Berlin In 2011

Group for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering, Paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen

Schreiner MediPharm LP, New York, US

Education

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Diploma

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