@article{Distelmeyer2019,
  author    = {Distelmeyer, Jan},
  title     = {From object to process},
  series = {Artnodes},
  journal   = {Artnodes},
  number    = {24},
  publisher = {Universitat Oberta de Catalunya},
  address   = {Barcelona},
  issn      = {1695-5951},
  doi       = {10.7238/a.v0i24.3300},
  pages     = {83 -- 90},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {One of the most difficult tasks today is trying to grasp the presence of computing. The almost ubiquitous and diverse forms of networked computers (in all their stationary, mobile, embedded, and autonomous modes) create a nearly overwhelming complexity. To speak of what is here evading and present at the same time, the paper proposes to reconsider the concept of interface, its historical roots, and its heuristic advantages for an analysis and critique of the current and especially everyday spread of computerization. The question of interfaces leads to isolable conditions and processes of conduction, as well as to the complexity of the cooperation formed by them. It opens both an investigative horizon and a mode of analysis, which always asks for further interface levels involved in the phenomenon I am currently investigating. As an example, the paper turns to the displacement of the file with the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and its comeback in 2017 with the "Files" apps. Both developments are profoundly related to the establishment of computers as permanently networked machines, whereby their functionality, depresentations, and ideology come into focus.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Erbe2004,
  author    = {Erbe, Andreas},
  title     = {Ellipsometrische Lichtstreuung als neue Methode zur Charakterisierung der Grenzfl{\"a}che von Kolloiden},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0001565},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {123},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {Die ellipsometrische Lichtstreuung wird als eine neue, leistungsf{\"a}hige Methode zur Charakterisierung von Schichten um kolloidale Partikel vorgestellt. Theoretische Grundlage der Methode ist die Mie-Theorie der Lichtstreuung. Experimentell wurde die Polarisationsoptik eines Null-Ellipsometers in den Strahlengang eines Lichtstreuaufbaus eingebaut. Wie in der Reflexionsellipsometrie um den Brewsterwinkel herum erh{\"a}lt man in der ellipsometrischen Streuung einen Winkelbereich, in dem die Methode empfindlich auf Schichten an der Oberfl{\"a}che der Partikel ist. An verschiedenen Systemen wurde die Tauglichkeit der ellipsometrischen Streuung zur Charakterisierung von Schichten auf Partikeln demonstriert. So wurden Dicke und Brechungsindex einer thermosensitiven Schicht von Poly(N-isopropylacrylamid) auf einem Poly(methylmethacrylat)-Kern bestimmt. Damit ist es m{\"o}glich, experimentell den Schichtbrechungsindex und damit den Quellungsgrad zu bestimmen. Des Weiteren wurde der Einfluss der NaCl-Konzentration auf die Polyelektrolyth{\"u}lle von Poly(methylmethacrylat)-Poly(styrolsulfonat)-Blockcopolymer-Partikeln untersucht. Die Polyelektrolytketten liegen im hier untersuchten Beispiel nicht gestreckt vor. Als drittes wurde die Verteilung von niedermolekularen Ionen um elektrostatisch stabilisierte Poly(styrol)-Latexpartikel in Wasser untersucht. Hier wurde gezeigt, dass die beobachteten Schichtdicken und Schichtbrechungsindizes viel gr{\"o}ßer sind, als nach der klassischen Poisson-Boltzmann-Theorie zu erwarten ist. Des Weiteren wurde die Doppelbrechung von unilamellaren Lipidvesikeln bestimmt. Außerdem wurden Messungen der dynamische Lichtstreuung im Intensit{\"a}tsminimum der Ellipsometrie durchgef{\"u}hrt. Dabei wird ein Prozess mit einer Korrelationszeit, die unabh{\"a}ngig vom Streuvektor, aber abh{\"a}ngig von der verwendeten Wellenl{\"a}nge ist, sichtbar. Die Natur dieses Prozesses konnte hier nicht vollst{\"a}ndig gekl{\"a}rt werden.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Gustafson2013,
  author    = {Gustafson, Sean},
  title     = {Imaginary Interfaces},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-68960},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {The size of a mobile device is primarily determined by the size of the touchscreen. As such, researchers have found that the way to achieve ultimate mobility is to abandon the screen altogether. These wearable devices are operated using hand gestures, voice commands or a small number of physical buttons. By abandoning the screen these devices also abandon the currently dominant spatial interaction style (such as tapping on buttons), because, seemingly, there is nothing to tap on. Unfortunately this design prevents users from transferring their learned interaction knowledge gained from traditional touchscreen-based devices. In this dissertation, I present Imaginary Interfaces, which return spatial interaction to screenless mobile devices. With these interfaces, users point and draw in the empty space in front of them or on the palm of their hands. While they cannot see the results of their interaction, they obtain some visual and tactile feedback by watching and feeling their hands interact. After introducing the concept of Imaginary Interfaces, I present two hardware prototypes that showcase two different forms of interaction with an imaginary interface, each with its own advantages: mid-air imaginary interfaces can be large and expressive, while palm-based imaginary interfaces offer an abundance of tactile features that encourage learning. Given that imaginary interfaces offer no visual output, one of the key challenges is to enable users to discover the interface's layout. This dissertation offers three main solutions: offline learning with coordinates, browsing with audio feedback and learning by transfer. The latter I demonstrate with the Imaginary Phone, a palm-based imaginary interface that mimics the layout of a physical mobile phone that users are already familiar with. Although these designs enable interaction with Imaginary Interfaces, they tell us little about why this interaction is possible. In the final part of this dissertation, I present an exploration into which human perceptual abilities are used when interacting with a palm-based imaginary interface and how much each accounts for performance with the interface. These findings deepen our understanding of Imaginary Interfaces and suggest that palm-based Imaginary Interfaces can enable stand-alone eyes-free use for many applications, including interfaces for visually impaired users.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Wierzba2017,
  author    = {Wierzba, Marta},
  title     = {Revisiting prosodic reconstruction},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403152},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {vi, 224},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, I develop a theoretical implementation of prosodic reconstruction and apply it to the empirical domain of German sentences in which part of a focus or contrastive topic is fronted. Prosodic reconstruction refers to the idea that sentences involving syntactic movement show prosodic parallels with corresponding simpler structures without movement. I propose to model this recurrent observation by ordering syntax-prosody mapping before copy deletion. In order to account for the partial fronting data, the idea is extended to the mapping between prosody and information structure. This assumption helps to explain why object-initial sentences containing a broad focus or broad contrastive topic show similar prosodic and interpretative restrictions as sentences with canonical word order. The empirical adequacy of the model is tested against a set of gradient acceptability judgments.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{OPUS4-2260,
  title     = {Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2)},
  editor    = {Ishihara, Shinichiro and Petrova, Svetlana and Schwarz, Anne},
  issn      = {1866-4725},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22234},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {This volume contains the proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI2), held at University of Potsdam on March 18, 2005. WPSI 2 was aimed to discuss issues on the interaction of prosody, syntax, and information structure, from interdisciplinary points of view. The contributors (Haruo Kubozono, Shinichiro Ishihara, Yoshihisa Kitagawa, and Satoshi Tomioka) have been recently working on relevant issues, especially looking at the phenomena related to the intonation of focus and (wh-)questions in Japanese.},
  language  = {en}
}