Jan GillichWork & Projects

A CG animation created with Blender based on music by The New Meta

An interactive visualisation illustrating the correlation of certain series in the Munich data index.

Feel free to visit the Live Demo.

A gesture controlled strategy game created with Unity.

MIDAS: Multidimensional Doodling and Sketching. A virtual reality application for drawing in 3D space. Developed for the 5 sided projector based VR-environment in the V2C at the LRZ.

Augmented reality is a technology that allows to extend the reality with virtual elements. Those elements overlay for instance the output of a camera and provide additional information about the environment. Augmented reality can be used in various fields including medicine, military or maintenance and assembly applications. In the latter case manuals are used to guide the user through the individual operations. Augmented reality can help to make these work steps clearer and easier to understand. Therefore several concepts exist for augmented reality manuals, but most of them are implemented on so called head mounted displays. The aim of this thesis was to explore the benefits of augmented reality manuals on mobile touch devices. Particularly the development of concepts for the navigation through the individual work steps were of importance, because there only exist crude approaches for this use case. During the work two techniques were designed and implemented: first a list providing a textual and pictorial overview over the worksteps and second a technique that allows the user to interact directly with the assembled parts. A user study then showed that both concepts had advantages over the current state of the art. Especially the list allowed the experimentees to fulfill their tasks significantly faster and more easily.

An attendance tracker for the coaches of sports teams. Developed out of personal need. Redesign will follow with the introduction of Android L. Contains basic features only, cooler things like statistics, notifications and trainer-trainee collaboration are planned.

Here you can see a videoprototype as the result of the workshop "Concept Development". In the workshop we were given the task to develop an interaction concept for a public service of our choice. The first step was to conduct a user research with the user group of our choice (in the case of my team: postal service). We then analyzed the results, discussed the problems and generated several solutions. Our favourite interaction design was then further refined and lastly visualized through a video prototype.
More about the functionality of the design and the whole development process can be found on the workshops blog.

Team

• Manuel Demmler
• Thomas Steinbrecher
• Daniel Elsner
• Katharina Hauser
• Jan Gillich (me)