Michael Wessely

Assistant Professor at Aarhus University
Director of the Interactive Matter Lab
Member of the CoCHI group

email: michael.wessely@cs.au.dk
office: Room 5342-119, Aabogade 34, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark



Work Experience

since 10/2023 TT Assistant Professor in Computer Science at IMLab, Aarhus University, Denmark
01/2019 - 09/2022 Postdoctoral Associate at HCI Engineering Group, MIT CSAIL, USA
03/2015 - 04/2015 RA at HCI Lab, Saarland University, Germany Host: Prof. Juergen Steimle
01/2015 - 10/2015 RA at PDF group, Saarland University, Germany Host: Prof. Piotr Didyk

Education

11/2015 - 12/2018 PhD candidate at INRIA, Université Paris Sud, France
Supervisors: Theophanis Tsandilas, Wendy Mackay
06/2017 Visiting Student at Hybrid Ecologies Lab, UC Berkeley

Program Committee

Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2023
Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2022
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2022
Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2021
Program Committee Member ACM UIST 2020
Program Committee Member ACM CHI 2020

Organizing Committee

General Chair ACM SCF 2024
Demo Chair ACM UIST 2023
Demo Chair ACM UIST 2022
Social Events Chair ACM UIST 2021
Publicity Chair ACM UIST 2019
Publicity Chair ACM UIST 2018

Reviewing

100+ reviews at:
ACM CHI, ACM UIST, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SSIGGRAPH Asia, ACM TEI,
ACM IMWUT, ACM DIS, ACM NordiCHI, ACM MobileHCI,

Awards

Best Demo Award ACM UIST 2023
Best Paper Honorable Mention ACM CHI 2021
Best Talk Award ACM UIST 2019
Best Paper Award ACM UIST 2019
Best Paper Award ACM UIST 2014

Invited Talks

2023 Digital Tech Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023 Saarland University, HCI Lab, Host: Prof. Juergen Steimle
2022 Indiana University
2022 Aarhus University
2022 Aalto University
2021 Advanced Imaging Festival '21, South Korea
2021 TU Dresden
2021 Carnegie Mellon University, HCII, Host: Alexandra Ion
2021 Stanford, Host: Prof. Sean Follmer
2021 IST Austria, Host: Prof. Bernd Bickel
2021 Guest Lecture in Architecture and Digital Fabrication, ETH Zurich
2021 Guest Lecture on Functional Fabrics, MIT and AFFOA
2019 Host: Prof. Robert D. Howe, Harvard Biorobotics Lab
2019 MIT-nano Symposium, Color-Changing Materials
2018 Fab14 Paris, Science&Research Panel, Interactive Materials with Printed Electronics
2014 Schloss Dagstuhl, Science Journalism Workshop, PrintScreen

Workshops, Seminars, Summer Schools

2024 Organizer of the Summer School on Computational Fabrication, Copenhagen
2020 Organizer of ACM CHI Workshop on color-changing materials
2018 Organizer of a workshop on "Rapid Prototying with Interactive Materials", Fab14, Toulouse
2017 Participant at Summer School on "Computational Fabrication and Smart Matter", MIT
2015 Tutor at "Workshop on Printed Electronics", Saarland Unversity

Advised Students

Postdoc

Carlos Tejada

PhD Students

Students with * were co-advised with Prof. Stefanie Mueller
Doga Ozbek Yijing Yang Marwa AlAlawi* [13] Faraz Faruqi* [NP9]
Yunyi Zhu*[9,11] Junyi Zhu*[9,12,14] Donghyeon Ko*[14]

Undergrads


Thorben Christopher Schmidt Jacob Jensen Mads Vejrup[NP9]
UIST Best Demo Award
Frederik Soerensen[NP9]
UIST Best Demo Award
Magnus Frisk[NP9]
UIST Best Demo Award
Matilde Stenderup-Jensen Magnus Poulsen Paolo Boni[NP8]
Sabina Chen[NP8] Aradhana Adhikari[6]
Outstanding Research Award
Jackson Snowden[8] Carlos Castillo Lozada[8]
Lickleader Best UROP Award
Cattalyya Neungsigkapian[10] Alexey Kashapov[10] Niels Mourette[2]

Teaching

2023 Engineering Interactive Technologies (Instructor), Aarhus University
2023 IT Product Design Project (Co-Instructor), Aarhus University
2021 Engineering Interactive Technologies (Co-Instructor), MIT CSAIL
2020 Engineering Interactive Technologies (Co-Instructor), MIT CSAIL
2017 Digital Fabrication (Co-Instructor), Universite Paris-Saclay
2017 Introduction to Computer Graphics (TA), École Polytechnique

Research

[14] Donghyeon Ko, Yoonji Kim, Junyi Zhu, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller.
FlexBoard: A Flexible Breadboard for Interaction Prototyping on Curved and Deformable Surfaces.
In Proceedings of CHI 2023.
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[13] Marwa AlAlawi, Noah Pacik-Nelson, Junyi Zhu, Ben Greenspan, Andrew Doan, Brandon Wong, Benjamin Owen-Block, Shanti Mickens, Wilhelm Schoeman, Michael Wessely, Andreea Danielescu, Stefanie Mueller.
MechSense: A Design and Fabrication Pipeline for Integrating Rotary Encoders into 3D Printed Mechanisms.
In Proceedings of CHI 2023.
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[12] Yoonji Kim, Junyi Zhu, Mihir Trivedi, Dishita G. Turakhia, Ngai Hang Wu, Donghyeon Ko, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller.
SensorViz: Visualizing Sensor Data Across Different Stages of Prototyping Interactive Objects.
In Proceedings of DIS 2022
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[11] Jiani Zeng, Honghao Deng, Yunyi Zhu, Michael Wessely, Axel Kilian, Stefanie Mueller.
LenticleObject: 3D Printed Objects with Lenticular Lens Surfaces that Can Change their Appearance Depending on the Viewpoint.
In Proceedings of UIST 2021
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[10] Michael Wessely,Yuhua Jin, Cattalyya Nuengsigkapian, Aleksei Kashapov, Isabel Qamar, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Stefanie Mueller.
ChromoUpdate: Locally Updating Photochromic Multi-Color Textures for Fast Design Iterations.
In Proceedings of CHI 2021
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[9] Junyi Zhu, Yunyi Zhu, Jiaming Cui, Leon Cheng, Jackson C Snowden, Mark Chounlakone, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller.
MorphSensor: An Electronic Design Tool for Reforming Sensor Modules.
In Proceedings of UIST 2020
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[8] Michael Wessely, Ticha Sethapakdi, Carlos Castillo, Jackson C Snowden, Ollie Hanton, Isabel Qamar, Mike Fraser, Anne Roudaut, Stefanie Mueller.
Sprayable User Interfaces: Prototyping Large-Scale Interactive Surfaces with Sensors and Displays.
In Proceedings of CHI 2020
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[7] Ollie Hanton, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller, Mike Fraser, Anne Roudaut.
ProtoSpray: Combining 3D Printing and Spraying to Create Objects with Interactive Displays.
In Proceedings of CHI 2020, Best Paper Honorable Mention
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[6] Yuhua Jin*, Isabel Qamar*, Michael Wessely*, Aradhana Adhikari, Katarina Bulovic, Parinya Punpongsanon, Stefanie Mueller. [* shared first authors]
Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes
In Proceedings of UIST 2019, Best Paper Award
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[5] Michael Wessely, Theophanis Tsandilas, and Wendy E. Mackay
Shape-Aware Material: Interactive Fabrication with ShapeMe
In Proceedings of UIST 2018
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[4] Michal Piovarči, Michael Wessely, Michał Jagielski, Marc Alexa, Wojciech Matusik, Piotr Didyk
Design and analysis of directional front projection screens
Computers & Graphics, Volume 74, 2018,12 pages
[PDF] [Video]
[3] Michal Piovarči, Michael Wessely, Michał Jagielski, Marc Alexa, Wojciech Matusik, and Piotr Didyk
Directional screens
ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '17), 10 pages
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[2] Michael Wessely, Theophanis Tsandilas, and Wendy E. Mackay
Stretchis: Fabricating Highly Stretchable User Interfaces
In Proceedings of UIST '16
[PDF] [ACM] [Video] [Poster]
[1] Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely, and Jürgen Steimle
PrintScreen: fabricating highly customizable thin-film touch-displays
In Proceedings of UIST '14, Best Paper Award
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]


Extended Abstracts, Demos, Workshops, and Magazine Articles

[NP10] Magnus Frisk, Mads Kristian Steen Vejrup, Frederik Kjær Sørensen, Michael Wessely.
ChromaNails: Re-Programmable Multi-Colored High-Resolution On-Body Interfaces using Photochromic Nail Polish.
UIST 2023, Demos
Best Demo Award
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]
[NP9] Faraz Faruqi, Kenneth Friedman, Leon Cheng, Michael Wessely, Sriram Subramanian, Stefanie Mueller.
SliceHub: Augmenting Shared 3D Model Repositories with Slicing Results for 3D Printing.
CHI 2022, Interactivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14722
[PDF] [arxiv] [Video]
[NP8] Isabel P. S. Qamar, Sabina W. Chen, Dimitri Tskhovrebadze, Paolo Boni, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller.
ChromoPrint: A Multi-Color 3D Printer Based on a Reprogrammable Photochromic Resin.
CHI 2022, Late Breaking Work
[PDF] [ACM]
[NP7] Junyi Zhu, Yunyi Zhu, Jiaming Cui, Leon Cheng, Jackson C Snowden, Mark Chounlakone, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller
Demonstration of MorphSensor: A 3D Electronic Design Tool for Reforming Sensor Modules
UIST Adjunct '20, 3 pages
[ACM]

[NP6] Ollie Hanton, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller, Mike Fraser, Anne Roudaut
ProtoSpray: Combining 3D Printing and Spraying to Create Objects with Interactive Displays.
CHI EA '20, 4 pages
[ACM]

[NP5] Yuhua Jin, Isabel Qamar, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller
Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes
SIGGRAPH '20, 2 pages
[ACM]

[NP4] Yuhua Jin, Isabel Qamar, Michael Wessely, Stefanie Mueller
Introduction to Re-Programmable Color-Changing Materials
CHI EA 2020, 4 pages
[ACM]

[NP3] Michael Wessely, Nadiya Morenko, Jürgen Steimle, Michael Schmitz
Interactive Tangrami: Rapid Prototyping with Modular Paper-folded Electronics
UIST 2018, 2 pages
[PDF] [ACM] [Video]

[NP2] J. Li, M. Wessely, S. Follmer and S. Mueller,
Summer School for Computational Fabrication and Smart Matter
IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 50-53, October-December 2017.
[IEEE]

[NP1] Jürgen Steimle, Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely
Digitale Fabrikation von flexiblen Displays und Touch-Oberflächen
Mensch&Computer Workshopband 2014: 19-20