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Overview

Johannes Schöning is affiliated with the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Their research spans Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a particular focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers various topics including:

  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Spaceflight Effects on Biology
  • Space Exploration and Technology
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mind Wandering and Attention
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Johannes Schöning has contributed to multiple publication venues with repeated contributions in:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • interactions
  • Nature
  • Interaction Design and Children

Among their recent papers are:

  • "An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel", 2020, Nature
  • "Comparing Non-Visual and Visual Guidance Methods for Narrow Field of View Augmented Reality Displays", 2020, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "It's Time to Do Something: Mitigating the Negative Impacts of Computing Through a Change to the Peer Review Process", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Designing for Care Ecosystems: a Literature Review of Technologies for Children with ADHD", 2022, Interaction Design and Children
  • "The Role of Flag Emoji in Online Political Communication", 2020, Social Science Computer Review

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Gian-Luca Savino
  • Yvonne Rogers
  • Ankit Kariryaa
  • Jasmin Niess
  • Nadine Wagener

Best Publications

  • Falling asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage

    Matthias Böhmer;Brent Hecht;Johannes Schöning;Antonio Krüger

  • Multi-Touch Surfaces: A Technical Guide

    J Schöning;P Brandl;F Daiber;F Echtler

  • The Geography of Pokémon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement

    Ashley Colley;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Allen Yilun Lin;Donald Degraen

  • The path-to-purchase is paved with digital opportunities: An inventory of shopper-oriented retail technologies

    Kim Willems;Kim Willems;Annelien Smolders;Malaika Brengman;Kris Luyten

  • Gestural interaction on the steering wheel: reducing the visual demand

    Tanja Döring;Dagmar Kern;Paul Marshall;Max Pfeiffer

  • Map navigation with mobile devices: virtual versus physical movement with and without visual context

    Michael Rohs;Johannes Schöning;Martin Raubal;Georg Essl

  • Multi-user interaction on media facades through live video on mobile devices

    Sebastian Boring;Sven Gehring;Alexander Wiethoff;Anna Magdalena Blöckner

  • Augmenting Social Interactions: Realtime Behavioural Feedback using Social Signal Processing Techniques

    Ionut Damian;Chiew Seng (Sean) Tan;Tobias Baur;Johannes Schöning

  • How to nudge in Situ: designing lambent devices to deliver salient information in supermarkets

    Vaiva Kalnikaite;Yvonne Rogers;Jon Bird;Nicolas Villar

  • The Geography of Pok'emon GO: Beneficial and Problematic Effects on Places and Movement

    Ashley Colley;Jacob Thebault-Spieker;Allen Yilun Lin;Donald Degraen

  • Building Interactive Multi-touch Surfaces

    Johannes Schöning;Jonathan Hook;Tom Bartindale;Dominik Schmidt

  • Gestural interaction on the steering wheel: reducing the visual demand

    T Döring;D Kern;P Marshall;M Pfeiffer

  • Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking: helping users ask "why?"

    Johannes Schöning;Brent Hecht;Martin Raubal;Antonio Krüger

  • Map torchlight: a mobile augmented reality camera projector unit

    Johannes Schöning;Michael Rohs;Sven Kratz;Markus Löchtefeld

  • Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide

    Isaac L. Johnson;Yilun Lin;Toby Jia-Jun Li;Andrew Hall

  • The Geography and Importance of Localness in Geotagged Social Media

    Isaac L. Johnson;Subhasree Sengupta;Johannes Schöning;Brent Hecht

  • PhotoMap: using spontaneously taken images of public maps for pedestrian navigation tasks on mobile devices

    Johannes Schöning;Antonio Krüger;Keith Cheverst;Michael Rohs

  • Using hands and feet to navigate and manipulate spatial data

    Johannes Schöning;Florian Daiber;Antonio Krüger;Michael Rohs

  • It's All Around You: Exploring 360° Video Viewing Experiences on Mobile Devices

    Marc Van den Broeck;Fahim Kawsar;Johannes Schöning

  • Unexpected journeys with the HOBBIT: the design and evaluation of an asocial hiking app

    Maaret Posti;Johannes Schöning;Jonna Häkkilä

  • Visual separation in mobile multi-display environments

    Jessica R. Cauchard;Markus Löchtefeld;Pourang Irani;Johannes Schoening

  • SubwayPS: towards smartphone positioning in underground public transportation systems

    Thomas Stockx;Brent Hecht;Johannes Schöning

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Krüger
Antonio Krüger German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Brent Hecht
Brent Hecht Northwestern University
Michael Rohs
Michael Rohs University of Hannover
Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne Rogers University College London
Patrick Olivier
Patrick Olivier Monash University
Nicolai Marquardt
Nicolai Marquardt Microsoft (United States)
Harald Reiterer
Harald Reiterer University of Konstanz
Keith Cheverst
Keith Cheverst Lancaster University
Susanne Boll
Susanne Boll Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Martin Raubal
Martin Raubal ETH Zurich

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