About

Hello World!

Welcome to my new homepage. My name is Marc Seissler and I am currently employed as a researcher at the "Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz" (DFKI) at the research group "Innovative Fabriksysteme". We mainly focus on developing and evaluating techniques and methodologies for the design of intelligent user interfaces (like context-sensitive and multi-touch user interfaces) for desktop and mobile interactive systems. Within the field of 'Useware Engineering' (which is the intersection between software engineering and usability engineering) I am focusing on the model-based development of run-time adaptive/context-sensitive user interfaces in the production automation domain. Run-time adaptive mobile interaction devices can help to ease the interaction between users and their 'intelligent' environments. Due to the emerging complexity of these systems new development paradigms are demanded that help developers to efficiently engineer these systems. Model-based approaches promise to provide a remedy, since they promote concepts like abstraction, separation of concerns and an enhanced reuse of already designed user interface components.

In the research project "GaBi" we have developed a model-based architecture that supports the design of run-time adaptive user interfaces. Core of this architecture are three interlinked run-time models that support the abstract description of the user interface and the adaptation rules. On this page you'll find links to projects I am currently involved as well as selected publications.

Research Projects

Generierung aufgabenorientierter Benutzungsschnittstellen in intelligenten Produktionsumgebungen (GaBi)
- Improving Human-Machine-Interaction in smart production environments by introducing a mobile, run-time adaptive Universal Control Device (UCD).
- Website: coming soon
Ambient Systems - Technologies and Applications (AmSys)
- AmSys is focusing on technologies and applications of ambient systems, a new generation of miniaturized distributed networked embedded systems based on intelligent sensors and actuators, and advanced signal processing capabilities.
- Website: http://www.amsys-uni-kl.de
Semantical Product Memories (SemProM)
- Digital Product Memory - Products keep diaries and communicate - not only with one another, but also with their surroundings in the sense of an "Internet of Things". New forms of human-machin-interaction are investigated to seamlessly access the object information.
- Website: http://www.semprom.org

Selected Publications

2012

More Publications
Marc Seißler; Kai Breiner: Modellgetriebene Entwicklung laufzeitadaptiver Benutzungsschnittstellen für die Unterstützung der mobilen Instandhaltung in ambient-intelligenten Produktionsumgebungen. In: VDI-Berichte. USEWARE 2012, December 4-5, Kaiserslautern, Germany. Düsseldorf : VDI-Verlag, 2012 (accepted)
Gerrit Meixner; Marc Seissler; Marius Orfgen: Specification and Application of a Taxonomy for Task Models in Model-Based User Interface Development Environments. In: International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3+4, Pages 388-398, IARIA, 4/2012.
Marc Seißler; Gerrit Meixner; Kai Breiner: SmartMote – A run-time adaptive universal control device for ambient intelligent production environments : W3C Working Group Submission. URL http://www.w3.org/wiki/images/0/06/2012-02-09_SmartMote_Architecture_useML_useDM.pdf

2011

Christian Wiehr; Nathalie Aquino; Kai Breiner; Marc Seissler; Gerrit Meixner: Improving the Flexibility of Model Transformations in the Model-Based Development of Interactive Systems, Proc. of the 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Interact 2011), Lisabon, Portugal, September 2011.
Marc Seissler; Gerrit Meixner; Ahmed Seffah; Kai Breiner; Peter Forbrig; Kerstin Klöckner: PEICS: HCI patterns for the design of interactive systems. Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-3.
Marc Seissler; Kai Breiner; Gerrit Meixner; Peter Forbrig; Ahmed Seffah; Kerstin Klöckner: Pattern-driven engineering of interactive computing systems (PEICS). In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems, EICS’11. Pisa, Italy: ACM, 2011. —ACM ID: 1996555 —ISBN 978-1-4503-0670-6, S.339–340
Henning Hager; Stefan Hennig; Marc Seißler; Annerose Braune: Integration der domänenspezifischen Sprache Movisa in den nutzerzentrierten Entwicklungsprozess der Useware, Proc. of the Workshop Modellbasierte Entwicklung von Benutzungsschnittstellen (MoBe), Berlin, Germany, Oktober 2011.
Gerrit Meixner; Marc Seissler: Selecting the Right Task Model for Model-based User Interface Development. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI-11), February 23-28, Gosier, Guadeloupe, France, XPS (Xpert Publishing Services), 2011.
Kai Breiner; Kai Bizik; Thilo Rauch; Marc Seissler; Gerrit Meixner, Philipp Diebold: Automatic adaptation of user workflows within model-based user interface generation during runtime on the example of the SmartMote. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Human Computer Interaction International Conferences (HCII-2011), July 9 - June 14, Orlando, Florida, United States, Springer, 2011.
Marc Seissler; Kai Breiner; Gerrit Meixner: Towards Pattern-Driven Engineering of Run-Time Adaptive User Interfaces for Smart Production Environments. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Human Computer Interaction International Conferences (HCII-2011), July 9-14, Orlando, Florida, United States, Springer, 2011.
Jan Meskens; Matthias Loskyll; Marc Seissler; Kris Luyten; Karin Coninx und Gerrit Meixner: GUIDE2ux: a GUI Design Environment for Enhancing the User eXperience. In: Proceedings of the3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems. ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS-2011), June 13-16, Pisa, Italy, ACM, 4/2011.
Gerrit Meixner; Marc Seissler; Kai Breiner: Model-Driven Useware Engineering. In: Heinrich Hußmann; Gerrit Meixner; Detlef Zühlke. Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces. Pages 1-26, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI), ISBN 978-3-642-14561-2, Springer, Heidelberg, 1/2011.

2010

Seissler, M., Breiner, K., Diebold, P., Wiehr, C., und Meixner, G. SmartMote - Ein HCI-Pattern-basiertes universelles Bediengerät für intelligente Produktionsumgebungen. Proceedings of USEWARE 2010. USEWARE - Nutzergerechte Gestaltung technischer Systeme (USEWARE-2010), October 13-14, Baden-Baden, Germany, VDI Wissensforum (2010).
Breiner, K., Bizik, K., Rauch, T., Seissler, M., und Meixner, G. Kontextmodellierung und automatische Anpassung von Aufgabenmodellen in intelligenten Produktionsumgebungen am Beispiel der SmartMote. Proceedings of USEWARE 2010. USEWARE - Nutzergerechte Gestaltung technischer Systeme (USEWARE-2010), October 13-14, Baden-Baden, Germany, VDI Wissensforum (2010).
Seissler, M., Heck, I., Stephan, P., und Schlick, J. Bridging the Gap between Digital Object Memory Information and Its Binary Representation. Proc. of the Workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things (DOME-IoT 2010), (2010).
Breiner Kai, Seissler Marc, Meixner Gerrit, Brunnlieb Malte, Rauch Thilo, Reuter Peter, Diebold Philipp, Kleine Markus, and Scherer Lars, 2010. SmartMote: Increasing the Flexibility of Run-Time Generated User Interfaces by Using UIML. Presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Visual Formalisms for Patterns (VFfP2010), located at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing 2010, Madrid, Spain.
Meixner, G.; Seissler, Marc; Breiner, K.: Research Tool: SmartFactoryKL & SmartMote. AIS SIGHCI Newsletter, Band 9, Nr. 1, S. 11, Juli 2010.
Breiner, K.; Seissler, M.; Meixner, G.; Forbrig, P.; Seffah, A.; Klöckner, K.: Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS), Proc. of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS), S. 367-368, Berlin, Deutschland, June 2010.
Breiner, K.; Seissler, M.; Meixner, G.; Forbrig, P.; Seffah, A.; Klöckner, K.: PEICS – Towards HCI Patterns into Engineering of Interactive Systems, Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS), Berlin, Deutschland, June 2010.
Breiner, K.; Seissler, M.; Meixner, G.; Forbrig, P.; Seffah, A.; Klöckner, K.: 1st International Workshop on Pattern-Driven Engineering of Interactive Computing Systems (PEICS), ACM Digital Library, June 2010.
Seissler, M., Meixner, G., und Breiner, K. Using HCI Patterns within the Model-Based Development of Run-Time Adaptive User Interfaces. Proceedings of the 11th IFAC/IFIPS/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems. IFAC/IFIPS/IFORS/IEA Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems (IFACHMS-2010), August 31 - September 3, Valenciennes, France, (2010).
Breiner, K., Gauckler, V., Seißler, M., und Meixner, G. Evaluation of user interface adaptation strategies in the process of model-driven user interface development. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Model-Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces. International Workshop on Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces (MDDAUI-2010), located at CHI 2010, April 10, Atlanta,, GA, United States, CEUR-Proceedings (2010).

2009

Seissler, M. und Meixner, G.: Entwicklung eines Transformationsprozesses zur modellbasierten Entwicklung von multimodalen Benutzungsschnittstellen. Proc. of the 8. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme, Der Mensch im Mittelpunkt technischer Systeme, October 7-9, Berlin, Germany, VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf (2009)
Marc Seißler: Automatisierte Transformation von Aufgabenmodellen in Dialogmodelle am Beispiel der Modellierungssprache useML 2.0, Diploma Thesis, TU Kaiserslautern, Lehrstuhl für Produktionsautomatisierung (2010)
Meixner, G., Seissler, M. und Nahler, M. Udit: A Graphical Editor For Task Models. 4th International Workshop on Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces. International Workshop on Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces (MDDAUI-2009), February 8, Sanibel Island,, Florida, United States, CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Online) (2009).