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Dr. Dr. Norbert A. Streitz (Ph.D. in physics, Ph.D. in
psychology) is a Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor with more than 25 years
of experience in information and communication technology. He is the founder of the
"Smart Future Initiative" which was launched in January 2009.
From 1987 - 2008, he was at the Fraunhofer Institute IPSI (previously GMD-IPSI) in Darmstadt, Germany,
where he held different positions as Division Manager and Deputy Director. At IPSI,
he initiated and managed research efforts in multiple areas (see Research Topics).
A prominent example is the research division
"AMBIENTE – Smart Environments of the Future" founded by him in 1997.
He also taught at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University Darmstadt
for more than 15 years. Before joining IPSI in Darmstadt, he was an Assistant Professor at
the Technical University Aachen (RWTH), Germany, teaching and doing research in cognitive science
and human-computer interaction and founding the ACCEPT-Group (AaChen Cognitive Ergonomics ProjecT).
This was preceded by his work in theoretical physics at the University of Kiel, Germany,
Furthermore, he was a post-doc research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley,
a visiting scholar at Xerox PARC and at the Intelligent Systems Lab of MITI, Tsukuba
Science City, Japan. He is regularly asked to present keynote speeches and tutorials at
scientific as well as commercial events.
Research Topics
His research activities cover a wide range of areas*: Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext/Hypermedia
and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence,
Interaction and Experience Design in the context of Hybrid (real and virtual) Worlds and more
recently Smart Cities. Norbert Streitz launched one of the first prominent research efforts in
hypertext and hypermedia in Germany (since 1987) resulting in the SEPIA-system which was developed
together with his WIBAS-Group. This was followed by work in CSCW (since 1992) resulting in the
DOLPHIN electronic meeting room system. Since 1997, he and his AMBIENTE-Team became well-known
for the development of Roomware®,
the integration of walls and furniture with information technology and for the design of Smart Artefacts
in ambient environments. The roomware components were developed in close cooperation with industry
and won several design prices. Some of them, e.g., the InteracTable, are available as commercial products
via the spin-off company foresee.
(* This list does not cover his research as a physicist working on general relativity theory,
differential geometry and elementary particle physics and his initial research as a psychologist
working in cognitive science focusing on memory and perception, dual task performance, problem solving
and knowledge representations.)
Publications and Talks
Norbert Streitz has published/edited 17 books and authored/ co-authored more than 115 papers presented
at the relevant national and international conferences or in journals in his areas of interest.
(List of Publications can be found here here )
He serves regularly on the program committees of these conferences and on several editorial boards,
e.g., JAISE (
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments) and previously
ACM TOCHI (ACM Transactions on Computer-Human-Interaction). He was also appointed as a member of juries
for design and software competitions. He is regularly asked to present keynote speeches,
invited talks and tutorials at scientific as well as commercial events in Europe, USA,
South America, Malaysia, Singapore, Hongkong, China, Korea and Japan.
(for examples of the last years see here)
Research Projects
He and his interdisciplinary AMBIENTE-Team have carried out a number of
research and consulting projects for various clients and sponsors in industry
or via public funding agencies (e.g., European Commission). Examples of past
and current projects are
Committees and Working Groups
He was the Chair of the Steering Group of the EU-funded proactive initiative
"The Disappearing Computer", a cluster of 17 projects, and the co-chair
of CONVIVIO: the EU-funded Network of Excellence on People-Centred Design of
Interactive Systems. He is now the chair of the Working Group on "Ambient Computing and
and Communication Environments" which is part of the
InterLink Coordinated Action.
He is also the co-chair of the ERCIM Working Group
"Smart Environments and Systems for Ambient Intelligence (SESAMI)". He was and
still is active in various special interest groups on Software-Ergonomics,
Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext/Hypermedia, Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work, Work and Organisation Psychology in different scientific
organisations, e.g.,
GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik),
DGP (Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Psychologie),
ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery),
EACE (European Association for
Cognitive Ergonomics).
Past Activities
Before April 1997, Norbert was the head of the research division “PUBLISH -
Cooperative Hypermedia Systems”. There, he worked on the
classification/taxonomy of current and future CSCW systems, situation-aware
cooperative systems providing smooth transitions between desktop-based
collaboration (SEPIA)
and meeting room based collaboration (DOLPHIN),
using the design of DOLPHIN to develop and test concepts for informal and
formal hypertext structures in group problem solving, support for group
argumentation and decision making. Previous and related work was on distributed
cooperative authoring and presentation of hypertext/hypermedia documents,
integration of audio/videoconferencing systems, tele-cooperation support for
virtual organisations.
In parallel to his activities as a division manager, he was for almost six
years (April 1992 - January 1998) the deputy director of GMD-IPSI, now
Fraunhofer IPSI.
New Contact Coordinates
Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz
Smart Future Initiative
Darmstaedter Str. 52
D-64367 Muehltal, Germany
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