Armin Wagner is a human-computer interaction researcher and user experience designer/engineer.

Liddy and me won a prize in the »20 Seconds for Art« contest of KÖR (Public Art Vienna). In the next two months you might spot us on public infoscreens in Vienna, Graz, Klagenfurt, Linz, Innsbruck and Eisenstadt.

I had the pleasure to migrate, design and implement the new »image« database of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. There will be a small #launchparty today at Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 2nd floor, Flux 2, starting at 16:00. See you there!

I will be giving a short, historical-critical presentation on Tuesday at the 161st UX Vienna Meetup. It will be hosted by A1 Telekom Austria. I hope to see you there!

For privacy and security reasons (some of my clients do not allow the storage of bookmarks in 3rd-party clouds), I made a little “read it later”-like Firefox add-on. It provides a place where you can temporarily store links for later review, but it keeps everything offline – no hidden metrics, no profiling. Sometimes less is more.

It’s open source now and you can get it here.

Happy to announce that Liddy Scheffknecht and me won the design award of the Neue Wiener Werkstätte.

WireTouch is an open multi-touch tracker based on mutual capacitance sensing. We built it to support researchers and designers in the exploration of new application areas. Read the full article here.

Research on active touch has a longer history than usually assumed. My article about it is now available as a “sample” of the APA History of Psychology Journal. Grab it while it’s free! [updated link to pdf for personal, non-commercial use]