Christopher Katins

Doctoral Candidate & HCI Researcher

Humboldt University of Berlin

Hi there!

My name is Christopher Katins. Currently, I am working and doing my PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin. My focus is on Human-Computer-Interaction with a special focus on innovative interaction technologies. Particularly in the case of new technologies (as currently with Augmented Reality), there are still many open questions regarding feasibility, usefulness, as well as safety & security, which I would like to answer.

Interests

Human Computer Interaction
Mixed/Augmented Reality
General Aviation
Photography

Education

M.Sc. Information Systems Technology, 2022

Technical University of Darmstadt
B.Sc. Information Systems Technology, 2019

Technical University of Darmstadt
B.Sc. Mechatronics, 2019

Technical University of Darmstadt

Portfolio

Some of my personal projects

MAVeric

MAVeric generates minimum snap trajectories for quadrotors and comes with a simple to use GUI, a visualization and simulation of the trajectory, and a CLI version.

Extruder Mount

I replaced the extruder on my Ultimaker Original and printed a new mount for it. You should do this BEFORE you remove the old extruder..

DckToGgl

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that values privacy, but sometimes Google simply finds more. DckToGgl is a Firefox extension to quickly switch between these search engines.

Custom Ultimaker Firmware

The firmware of the Ultimaker Plus 3D printer is not bad, but among other things, I missed a quick start menu and the support of a different extruder.

Remote Control Stand

The remote control of the Philips Hue has a weird rounded shape and always flew around my place. So I printed a stand and glued it to my table.

Viva la Vita

The PS Vita is a console whose hardware is convincing. But unfortunately there are hardly any good games for it. My path to emulators on the Vita, a tale of woe.

Mini Robotic Arm

The MeArm is a small tabletop robotic arm. For this I programmed a GUI to control the arm, so it can be operated with an XBOX 360 controller.

Publications

Conference Papers und Co.

Christopher Katins, Paweł W. Woźniak, Aodi Chen, Ihsan Tumay, Luu Viet Trinh Le, John Uschold, Thomas Kosch (2024). Assessing User Apprehensions About Mixed Reality Artifacts and Applications: The Mixed Reality Concerns (MRC) Questionnaire. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Christopher Katins, Sebastian Feger, Thomas Kosch (2023). Pilots' Considerations Regarding Current Generation Mixed Reality Headset Use in General Aviation Cockpits. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia.

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Christopher Katins, Sebastian Feger, Thomas Kosch (2023). Exploring Mixed Reality in General Aviation to Support Pilot Workload. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Sebastian Feger, Christopher Katins, Philippe Palanque, Thomas Kosch (2023). Re-envisioning Interaction in the (General) Aviation Cockpit through Tangibles. In Short Paper Proceedings of the 5th European Tangible Interaction Studio.

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Sebastian Feger, Felix Ehrentraut, Christopher Katins, Philippe Palanque, Thomas Kosch (2022). HCI for General Aviation: Current State and Research Challenges. In ACM Interactions, Volume 29, Issue 6.

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Christopher Katins, Sebastian Feger, Thomas Kosch (2022). No Margin for Errors: Using Extended Reality to Augment Users in Safety-Critical Environments. In Workshop ’MobileXR: Meeting the Promise of Real-time High Fidelity Applications’ at MobileHCI ’22.

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Thomas Kosch, Andrii Matviienko, Florian Müller, Jessica Bersch, Christopher Katins, Dominik Schön, Max Mühlhäuser (2022). NotiBike: Assessing Target Selection Techniques for Cyclist Notifications in Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.

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Gallery

A collection of my photos