Prof. Reto Wettach

Apprenticeship for stone mason

1991–93

TU-Berlin: Mechanical Engineering

1992–96

UdK Berlin: Industrial Design with Prof. Hans (Nick) Roericht

1997

Tohoku University, Japan: Japanese Culture

Assistant to artist Volker Bartsch, Berlin

1995

Freelance Designer with Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal

Junior Designer at IDEO, Palo Alto

1996

Design Researcher with Daimler AG, Berlin, »Society and Technology Research Group«

Designer with per – Product Entwicklung Roericht, Ulm

1998–2002

Senior Interaction Designer at Sony, Japan

Teaching Assistant at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco

1996

Guest Lecturer at Technical University Ankara

Guest Lecturer at University of Art and Design, Halle

2000

Initiator of a design research project between students from Berlin and Sony Tokyo

2000–02

Member of steering committee for Sony's involvement at the MIT Boston

2003–04

Guest Lecturer at KaosPilots, Aarhus, Denmark

2004

Associate Professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

Guest Lecturer at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London

• Johannes Landstorfer, Larissa Pschetz, Malte Kloes, Reto Wettach:
  »SocialButton – Mobile Technology Enhancing Social Interaction«
• Christian Behrens, Thomas Ness, Adam Danielsson, Reto Wettach:
  »A Thermal Information Display for Mobile Applications«
• André Knörig, Boris Müller, Reto Wettach:
• »Articulated paint: musical expression for non-musicians« (PDF)

2008

• Julia Werner, Eva Hornecker, Reto Wettach:
  »United-pulse: feeling your partner's pulse«
• Elisabeth Eichhorn, Eva Hornecker, Reto Wettach:
  »A stroking device for spatially separated couples«
• Fabian Hemmert, Gesche Joost, André Knörig, Reto Wettach:
  »Dynamic knobs: shape change as a means of interaction on a mobile phone«
• Fabian Hemmert, Danjiela Djokic, Reto Wettach
  »Spoken words: activating text-to-speech through eye closure«
• Fabian Hemmert, Danjiela Djokic, Reto Wettach
  »Perspective change: a system for switching between on-screen views by closing one eye«

2009

• Fabian Hemmert, André Knörig, Gesche Joost, Reto Wettach:
  »Stick, Click'n Call«
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Eva Burneleit, Fabian Hemmert, Reto Wettach:
  »Living Interfaces: The Impatient Toaster«
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Miriam Roy, Fabian Hemmert, Reto Wettach:
  »Living Interfaces: The Intimate Doorlock«
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Jonas Togler, Fabian Hemmert, Reto Wettach:
  »Living Interfaces: The Thrifty Faucet«
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Eva Hornecker, Tanja Krakowski, Reto Wettach:
  »All Around the Table«; Position paper for CSCW 2008 workshop ›Designing for Families‹
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Fabian Hemmert,  Susann Hamann, Reto Wettach:
  »The Digital Hourglass«
  TEI 2009: http://www.tei-conf.org/program.html
• Reto Wettach:
  »Tools for Prototyping of Organic UIs«
  CHI 2009, Workshop »Programming Reality«

2010

• »Heavy Cash« Fabian Frischmann, Andreas Schüßler, Reto Wettach, Paper auf der Konferenz. In: »Mensch&Computer 2010« der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)

2011

• Keynote-Speaker auf dem Tchibo Ideentag in Hamburg, 25.03.2011; Redner auf dem Opportunity Mapping Workshop »TouchHouse. Smart Living – Communicating Surfaces« organisiert durch Aedes Network Campus Berlin (ancb) in Kooperation mit Busch-Jaeger, 03.02.2011
• Forschungsprojekt »Experience the Energy« Ausstellung des RieCon-Kontrollers auf der CeBit, Hannover, auf dem Stand »Connected Home« (in Zusammenarbeit mit Riedel AT, Berlin), 14.–17.02.2011
• Industrieforschungsprojekt »Identity Management« Ausstellung auf dem Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, auf dem Stand des Kooperationspartners NokiaSiemensNetworks, 01.–05.03.2011