Matthias Wölfel

Prof. Dr. Matthias Wölfel

Computer Science and Business Information Systems, Karlsruhe University of Applied Science, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany
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Matthias Wölfel is a Professor of intuitive and perceptive user interfaces at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany and is associated with the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim. His research interests include interaction design, human–computer and human–computer–human interaction, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality and digital culture. Dr. Wölfel was recognized in 2017 as one of the best professors in Germany by UNICUM. After studying electrical engineering, information technology and computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA, and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Dr. Wölfel held full-time professorships in interactive media at Furtwangen University, Germany, and intermedia design at Pforzheim University, Germany. Besides his academic career, Dr. Wölfel contributes to media art exhibited at festivals and in museums worldwide (e.g., Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016). He worked for the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and is the founder and CEO of ColorfulBit, an award-winning studio for new media and innovative technologies (awards include the “IKT Innovativ” by the Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2013, the “Innovationspreis-IT” in the category Entertainment/3D in 2014; nominations include the d-elina–German E-Learning Innovation and Young Talent Award in 2013).

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