Master Thesis Spatial UI for Smart Home Devices

Location

Magstadt | Germany

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At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives. Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other. Join in and feel the difference.

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Job Description

Modern Augmented Reality / Mixed Reality equipment allows for immersive and versatile interaction, bringing digital elements into the real world through spatial computing. This ability has been leveraged into exciting gaming experiences and astonishing tools for highly specialized tasks. However, this technology has little to offer to the average person in their daily life, at least if we try to find use cases for it in isolation. But what about combining it with the other (equally underwhelming) vision-gone-mainstream tech concept? And with this, we mean ubiquitous computing. The ability to display anything anywhere in physical space (of course from the perspective of the user) permits to put visual interactive elements in the physical proximity of the tiny computers embedded in our environment, suddendly making them directly accessible to the user. Ubiquitous interfaces are finally available for ubiquitous computing. It is high time for ubiquitous interaction.

• The goal of this Master thesis is to create a native application for a given mixed reality headset (e.g. Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 2) that displays a spatial user interface for a set of connected home appliances.
• In order to so so, an interaction concept must be proposed by you, based on the devices functionality and users' needs. This concept is translated into a design considering visual elements, input methods, possible multimodal cues, as well as interaction flow.
• This design will be implemented by you in a prototype focused on demonstrating the interaction as realistic as possible to the user.
• Technical "under the hood" aspects of the application like security, authentication, resource optimization, scalability, etc. are out of scope for the thesis and left for later work.
• A REST API to communicate with the individual connected appliances is available and can be adapted to emerging needs of the AR application.
• Last but not least you will evaluate the demonstrator in terms of UX metrics through a user study. 

Qualifications

• Education: Master studies in the field of Informatics, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or comparable
• Experience and Knowledge: with app development (C++ or swift), basic knowledge of AR, basic knowledge of IoT technologies, basic knowledge of interaction design
• Personality and Working Practice: communicative, responsible, independent, and proactive

Additional Information

Start: according to prior agreement
Duration: 6 months

Requirement for this thesis is the enrollment at university. Please attach your CV, transcript of records, examination regulations and if indicated a valid work and residence permit.

Diversity and inclusion are not just trends for us but are firmly anchored in our corporate culture. Therefore, we welcome all applications, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, ethnic origin or sexual identity.

Need further information about the job?
Dr. Francisco Kiss (Functional Department)
+49 152 0971 2151

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Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Research

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