{"id":5748,"date":"2023-02-20T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalableinteractionparadigms.uni-oldenburg.de\/blog\/?page_id=5748"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:11:31","slug":"closing-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scalableinteractionparadigms.uni-oldenburg.de\/blog\/winter-schools-and-events\/closing-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5748\" class=\"elementor elementor-5748\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3be7d70 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3be7d70\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-08d35c8\" data-id=\"08d35c8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-112b888 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"112b888\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">OFFIS - INSTITUTE FOR IT<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbe1e47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dbe1e47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">September 22.-23.2026<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f6ebbb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f6ebbb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">SPP2199 Closing Symposium<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0b2d47a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0b2d47a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b3dc951\" data-id=\"b3dc951\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a982be3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a982be3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Six years of scaling interaction. One last room to <span class=\"accent\">share it in.<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"lede\">Every project, every prototype, every late-night debugging session across the priority programme comes together for two days in Oldenburg \u2014 to present, to argue, to celebrate, and to say a proper goodbye to SPP 2199.<\/p><p class=\"lede\"><strong>Please register <a href=\"https:\/\/pretix.eu\/gi\/SPP2199\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><h4>You built this field. Come close it out.<\/h4><div class=\"invite-body\"><p>When SPP 2199 started, &#8220;scalable interaction&#8221; was a question mark. Since then, this community has turned it into GAZE trackers, illusionary surfaces, privacy-preserving gestures, and a dozen other answers nobody else was brave enough to chase.<\/p><p>The <strong>Closing Symposium<\/strong> is where all of that finally sits in one room. Not a status update \u2014 a celebration. Two days of lightning talks, hard questions from people who actually understand your work, career workshops from folks who&#8217;ve been exactly where you are, and enough coffee breaks to catch up with everyone you&#8217;ve missed since the last retreat.<\/p><p>Bring your latest results, your unfinished ideas, and your best conference-hallway opinions. <strong>We saved the good seats for you.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c3eea52 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c3eea52\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2278b27\" data-id=\"2278b27\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3204a4c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3204a4c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>The full program<\/h2><p>Two days, four lightning-talk blocks, two rounds of career workshops, and a send-off worth showing up for.<\/p><h4><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Tuesday, September 22nd<\/strong><\/span><\/h4><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">0900 &#8211; Welcome and Keynote by Joanna McGrenere (University of British Columbia)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1030 &#8211; Coffee Break<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1100 &#8211; Lightning Talks and Interactive Project Presentations 1<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aesthetics of Performative Interaction &#8211; <em>Who Else Is Watching? UX in Public Interactive Systems<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Beyond Safety and Efficiency in Acute Care &#8211; <em>Pervasive Interaction in Acute Care: Balancing Safety and Experience<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PervaSafe Computing &#8211;\u00a0<em>Pattern-based Wearable Control Room Assistants<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scalable Pervasive Health Environments<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PerforM\/TransforM &#8211; <em>The room intelligence \u2013 interaction paradigms for personality and transparency in smart spaces and beyond<\/em><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1230 &#8211; Lunch<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1400 &#8211; Career Development Workshops<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How to DFG<\/strong> by Florentin Neumann (DFG)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How to Become an HCI Professor<\/strong> by Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg) and Florian Michahelles (TU Vienna)<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1530 &#8211; Coffee Break<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1600 &#8211; Lightning Talks and Interactive Project Presentations 2<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Designing and Evaluating Scalable Behavioral Biometrics Systems for Pervasive Computing Environments<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Illusionary Surfaces &#8211; <em>Feeling What Isn&#8217;t There: Multisensory Illusions for Pervasive Interfaces<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PervaSafe Computing 2 &#8211; <em>From Places to Spaces of Control<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RIME &#8211; <em>Enchanted Interaction: Materials as Interfaces in Smart Homes<\/em><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1900 &#8211; Social Event<\/span><\/p><h4><strong>Wednesday, September 23rd<\/strong><\/h4><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">0900 &#8211; Lightning Talks and Interactive Project Presentations 3<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GAZE &#8211; <em>Scalable Gaze Interaction for Pervasive Environments<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Manipulation of Virtual Self-Perception &#8211; <em>Feeling the Virtual Bodies: Haptics Meets Avatar Embodiment<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PriMR &#8211; <\/span><em>Design and evaluation of scalable user interfaces for communication and control of data protection aspects in mixed reality<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SKIRIM &#8211; <em>Self-directed kinetic interaction with rich interactive materials\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1030 &#8211; Coffee Break<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1100 &#8211; Career Development Workshops<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Life after PhD<\/strong> by Florian Alt (LMU Munich), Enrico Rukzio (Ulm University), and Teresa Hirzle (University of Copenhagen)<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How to Grant Proposal<\/strong> by Jochen Meyer (OFFIS &#8211; Institute for IT), in German only<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1230 &#8211; Lunch<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1400 &#8211; Lightning Talks and Interactive Project Presentations 4<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GrIPSs &#8211; <em>Waving Consistently: Gesture Design for Pervasive Environments<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">User Interaction Concepts based on Prehensile Hand Behavior<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Privacy-preserving interaction with body-worn computing devices &#8211; <em>Rethinking Privacy in On-Body Computing<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SimGest &#8211; <em>Simulation of scalable gesture-based human-machine interaction<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Compensation for Inter-Sensory Discomfort in Real-Time &#8211; <em>When Illusions Break: Detecting Discomfort in Mixed Reality<\/em><\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1530 &#8211; 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