Prof. Reto Wettach

Current Activities

University Administration:

• Responsible for internships (Praktikumsbeauftragter)

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

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

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.