Microsoft Research recently developed a number of prototypes of a novel electronic whiteboard. A worldwide competition was launched where pertinent research groups could propose innovative research projects that would leverage the unique characteristics of Microsoft’s new device called Surface Hub. Professor Mühlhäuser’s TK research lab was one of the ten award winners worldwide.

LCN 2015 is the 40th IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks, to be held in Clearwater Beach, Florida, October 26-29, 2015. This conference is among the highest ranked computer networks conferences worldwide. We managed to get all four submitted papers accepted this year, which is a record success.

We will present the following paper at UIST 2015: Capricate: A Fabrication Pipeline to Design and 3D Print Capacitive Touch Sensors for Interactive Objects (Martin Schmitz, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi, Matthias Balwierz, Roman Lissermann, Max Mühlhäuser, Jürgen Steimle)

The SSI group of the Telecooperation lab contributed 5 out of 40 posters at this years IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) in Florence: http://cns2015.ieee-cns.org/content/posters.

The Telecooperation Lab co-organizes the "5th Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects” in conjunction with IUI'16, the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, on March 10, 2016 in Sonoma, CA, USA.

During his recent three months stay at the US east coast, Professor Mühlhäuser presented TU Darmstadt’s research on privacy and trust when he gave a “Tech Talk” at Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Professor Mühlhäuser was called to be a member of acatech, Germany’s Academy for the technical sciences.

TK is going to present three Late-Breaking-Work posters at this year's CHI conference in San Jose.

Our article “AnonPubSub: Anonymous publish-subscribe overlays” has been published in Elsevier ComCom.

The Technical University of Darmstadt is organizing the “Security & Privacy Week (SPW2016)”, July 18 – 22 2016 in Darmstadt, Germany.

2 papers of the SSI group of the Telecooperation lab were accepted in IEEE/IFIP DISSECT.

The Telecooperation Lab organizes the "1st International Workshop on Intelligent Personal Guidance of Human Behavior Utilizing Anticipatory Models” in conjunction with UbiComp'16, the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, on September 13, 2016 in Heidelberg, Germany.

We are glad to announce that TK-member Jens Heuschkel is one in nine award winners of the 2017 Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities.

Commerzbank, Germany’s second largest bank, produced a vision film about the future of work and workplaces. It features three areas of TU Darmstadt‘s spin-off company Leap-in-Time headed by Prof. Ruth Stock-Homburg from the economics department.