Prof. Reto Wettach

Professor for Design of Physical and Virtual Interfaces

Committees & Offices

Academic Advising for Interface Design

Research and Transfer Coordinator

Chair of the Departmental Council

Internship Coordinator

Unit

Department of Design

reto.wettach@fh-potsdam.de

Phone

+49 331 580-4436

+49 176 2379 08673

Room

D.2.04

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House D

)

Weblinks

Website

Office hours

Wednesday 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm and Friday 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm (not during lecture-free periods), registration via online tool

Main fields of activity (research, teaching)

Current Activities

University Administration:

Responsible for internships (Internship Officer)

Research Topics:

Physical Interaction Design
User Experience Design
Service Design
Tools for Designers
Sustainable Interaction Design
Data Visualisation
Machine Learning

Consulting:

Strategic Design at retowettach.com

Other Involvements:

Co-Founder at Fritzing

CV

Education

1987 - 1990 Apprenticeship for stone mason
1991 - 1993 TU-Berlin: Mechanical Engineering
1992 - 1996 UdK Berlin: Industrial Design with Prof. Hans (Nick) Roericht
1997 Tohoku University, Japan: Japanese Culture

Work

1990 - 1991 Assistant to artist Volker Bartsch, Berlin
1995 Freelance Designer with Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal
Junior Designer at IDEO, Palo Alto
1996 Design Researcher with Daimler AG, Berlin, "Society and Technology Research Group
Design Researcher with Prof. Wolfgang Jonas and Steinbeis Foundation
1997 Designer with per – Product Entwicklung Roericht, Ulm
1998 - 2002 Senior Interaction Designer at Sony, Japan
2007 - 2019 Founder and Design Director at IXDS (purchased by PwC in 2020)

Teaching

1995 Teaching Assistant at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
1996 Guest Lecturer at Technical University Ankara
Guest Lecturer at University of Art and Design, Halle
2000 - 2002 Member of steering committee for Sony's involvement at the MIT Boston
2003 - 2004 Guest Lecturer at KaosPilots, Aarhus, Denmark
2004 Associate Professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Guest Lecturer at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London

Publications at FHP from 2018 onwards (according to core data set for research)

2024

Tobias Schröder, Reto Wettach (2024): Doing well by doing good?: Unternehmerische Strategien für eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft.
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2019

Matthias Beyrow, Marion Godau, Frank Heidmann, Constanze Langer, Reto Wettach, Harald A. Mieg (2019): Inquiry-Based Learning in Design

Additional publications

2017

Zimmermann, Raphael, and Reto Wettach. "First Step into Visceral Interaction with Autonomous Vehicles." Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. ACM, 2017.
Wohlauf, Anne, Fabian Hemmert, and Reto Wettach. "The Haptic Body Scale: Designing Imprecision in Times of the Quantified Self." Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 2017.

2015

Meier, Anita, Matthies, Dennys, and Wettach, Reto. "Exploring vibrotactile feedback on the body and foot for the purpose of pedestrian navigation." Proceedings of the 2nd international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction. ACM, 2015.
Nancy Birkhölzer, Katina Soestmann, Reto Wettach. "Startup Thinking - A new approach to service design." Touchpoint Magazine, Journal of Service Design Network. 05.2105.
Oswald, Patrick, Jordi Tost, and Reto Wettach."i. Ge: Exploring New Game Interaction Metaphors with Interactive Projection." Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ACM, 2015.

2014

Oswald, Patrick, Jordi Tost, and Reto Wettach. "The real augmented reality: real-time game editor in a spatial augmented environment." Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology. ACM, 2014.
Landstorfer, Johannes, Ivo Herrmann, Jan-Erik Stange, Marian Dörk, and Reto Wettach. "Weaving a Carpet from Log Entries: A Network Security Visualization Built with Co-creation." IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology. 2014.
Stange, Jan-Erik, Marian Dörk, Johannes Landstorfer, and Reto Wettach. "Visual filter: graphical exploration of network security log files." Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security. ACM, 2014.

2012

Matthies, Denys JC, Jan-Niklas Antons, Frank Heidmann, Reto Wettach, and Robert Schleicher. "NeuroPad: use cases for a mobile physiological interface." Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design. ACM, 2012.

2010

Frischmann, Fabian, Andreas Schüßler, and Reto Wettach. "Heavy Cash."Interaktive Kulturen: Workshop-Band: Proceedings der Workshops der Mensch & Computer 2010-10. Fachübergreifende Konferenz für Interaktive und Kooperative Medien, DeLFI 2010-die 8. E-Learning Fachtagung Informatik der Gesellschaft für Informatik eV und der Entertainment Interfaces 2010. Logos Verlag, 2010.
Löwe, Matthias, Omer Yosha, Alexander Krause, Reto Wettach, and Nils Krüger. "valeo: alienation gesture-enhanced tactile pain logging."Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. ACM, 2010.

2009

Knörig, André, Reto Wettach, and Jonathan Cohen. "Fritzing: a tool for advancing electronic prototyping for designers." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Togler, Jonas, Fabian Hemmert, and Reto Wettach. "Living interfaces: the thrifty faucet." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Burneleit, Eva, Fabian Hemmert, and Reto Wettach. "Living interfaces: the impatient toaster." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Roy, Miriam, Fabian Hemmert, and Reto Wettach. "Living interfaces: the intimate door lock." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Hemmert, Fabian, Susann Hamann, and Reto Wettach. "The digital hourglass."Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Hemmert, Fabian, André Knörig, Gesche Joost, and Reto Wettach. "Stick, Click n'Call: self-adhesive pressure-activated RFID tags for mobile phones." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. ACM, 2009.
Eichhorn, Elisabeth, Reto Wettach, and Boris Muller. "Demo: Recording emotions with “MyInnerLife”." Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, 2009. ACII 2009. 3rd International Conference on. IEEE, 2009.

2008

Hemmert, Fabian, Gesche Joost, André Knörig, and Reto Wettach. "Dynamic knobs: shape change as a means of interaction on a mobile phone." CHI'08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2008.
Werner, Julia, Reto Wettach, and Eva Hornecker. "United-pulse: feeling your partner's pulse." Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, 2008.
Eichhorn, Elisabeth, Reto Wettach, and Eva Hornecker. "A stroking device for spatially separated couples." Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, 2008.
Hemmert, Fabian, Danijela Djokic, and Reto Wettach. "Perspective change: a system for switching between on-screen views by closing one eye."Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces. ACM, 2008.
Hornecker, Eva, Tanja Krakowski, and Reto Wettach. "All Around the Table."Position paper for CSCW (2008).
Hemmert, Fabian, Danijela Djokic, and Reto Wettach. "Spoken words: activating text-to-speech through eye closure." CHI'08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2008.

2007

Wettach, Reto, Christian Behrens, Adam Danielsson, and Thomas Ness. "A thermal information display for mobile applications."Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, 2007.
Knörig, André, Boris Müller, and Reto Wettach. "Articulated paint: musical expression for non-musicians." Proceedings of the 7th international conference on New interfaces for musical expression. ACM, 2007.
Landstorfer, Johannes, Larissa Pschetz, Malte Kloes, and Reto Wettach. "SocialButton-Mobile Technology Enhancing Social Interaction." Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2007. NGMAST'07. The 2007 International Conference on. IEEE, 2007.