VISION
VISION
VISION
In 1960, Doug Engelbart pioneered human-computer interaction with groundbreaking tools like the computer mouse, videoconferencing, and interactive visualizations. This work culminated in "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968, where Engelbart demonstrated these innovations live, transforming the conference space into an interactive interface where humans and machines communicated in real time through layered projections, sound, and remote participation. Since 1960 technology has progressed significantly, and parts of the vision presented by Doug Engelbart has become common knowledge and standard procedure. However, many of the philosophical and technical questions are still unanswered. These questions are also situated in the design realm, focusing on topics such as digital craft, human-machine interaction, and the translation of physical into digital systems. These topics entail novel forms of design processing and spatial experience, overlapping extended reality systems with machine and robotic entities.
Therefore, we at the XAIA research group explore these questions for architecture, engineering and construction, focusing on the augmentation of humans and machines.
TEAM
FORMER TEAM MEMBERS:
Lidia Atanasova (PhD researcher in residence 2024)
Kirill Volchinskiy (student assistant)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024
- Heritage ++, a Spatial Computing approach to Heritage Conservation
in RILEM Tech Lett 2025, 9, 50-60.
Patankar , Y.; Tennenini, C.; Bischof, R.; Khatri, I.; Maia Avelino, R.; Yang, W.; Mahamaliyev, N.; Scotto, F.; Mitterberger, D.; Bickel, B.; Girardet, F.; Amsler, C.; Bomou, B.; J. Flatt
https://doi.org/10.21809/rilemtechlett.2024.202 LINK PDF
Cooperative Augmented Assembly (CAA): Augmented Reality for On-Site CooperativeRobotic Fabrication in Constr Robot 8, 28 (2024).
Vasiliki, E., Kenny, J., Atanasova, L., Doerfler, K., Casas, G., Mitterberger, D.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-024-00138-6
LINK PDF - Rethinking Digital Construction: A Collaborative Future of Humans, Machines and Craft
in Architectural Design (2024).
Mitterberger, D. and Doerfler, K.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.3103
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2023
- Augmented Human & Extended Machine: Adaptive Digital Fabrication and Human-machine Collaboration for Architecture
Mitterberger, D.
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000626069
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- Robotic on-site adaptive thin-layer printing: Challenges and workflow for design and fabrication of bespoke cementitious plasterwork at full architectural scale
in Archit. Struct. Constr. 3, 145- 156 (2023).
Ercan Jenny, S., Mitterberger, D., Lloret- Fritschi, E. et al.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s44150-022-00062-9
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2022
- Tie a knot: human–robot cooperative workflow for assembling wooden structures using rope joints
in Constr. Robotics 6, 277–292 (2022).
Mitterberger, D., Atanasova, L., Dörfler, K., Gramazio, F. and Kohler M.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41693-022-00083-2
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- Degrees of Life: Human-Bacteria Interaction in Architectural Space
Winner best project
in ACADIA - Hybrids & Haecceities (2022).
Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T.
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- Augmented human, extended machine: extended reality systems for robotic fabrication in architecture, engineering, and construction
in ACM XRDS (2022).
Mitterberger, D.
https://doi. org/10.1145/3558196
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- Interactive Robotic Plastering: Augmented Interactive Design and Fabrication for On-site Robotic Plastering
Honorable mention
in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 174.
Mitterberger, D., Ercan Jenny, S., Vasey, L., et al.
https:// doi.org/10.1145/3491102.35018
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- Extended Reality Collaboration: Virtual and mixed reality system for collaborative design and holographic-assisted on-site fabrication
in Design Modeling Symbosium 2022.
Mitterberger, D., Angelaki, E., Salveridou, F., et al.
https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-031-13249-0_24
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- Co-Corporeality of Humans, Machines, & Microbes
in Birkhäuser.
Imhof, B., Mitterberger, D. and Derme, T.
https://doi. org/10.1515/9783035625882
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