Prof. Dr. Johann Habakuk Israel
Johann Habakuk Israel is Professor of Applied Computer Science and Multimedia at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (HTW).
He is a member of the Research Cluster »Creative Computing« and member of the Managing Committee of the
special interest group »Be-greifbare Interaktion« (Tangible Interaction) of the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
His research focuses on immersive sketching, intuitive interaction, tangible interaction, 3D interaction in virtual environments, information visualization and transdisciplinary research.
University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Campus Wilhelminenhof
WH Building C, Room 615
Wilhelminenhofstraße 75A
12459 Berlin
Sketching, 3D Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Information Visualisation, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Israel, J. H., Kassung, C., Sieck, J. eds. 2020. Kultur und Informatik: Extended Reality. Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch.
http://www.vwh-verlag.de/vwh/?p=1283
Articles in Edited Volumes
Johann Habakuk Israel, Mayra Donaji Barrera Machuca, Rahul Arora, Philipp Wacker, Daniel Keefe. 2023. »Input Processing and Geometric Representations for 3D Sketches.« In Interactive Sketch-based Interfaces and Modelling for Design, edited by Alexandra Bonnici, Kenneth P. Camilleri 179-194.
Rodrigues, L. S., Riehm, F., Zachow, S., Israel, J. H. 2023. »VoxSculpt: An Open-Source Voxel Library for Tomographic Volume Sculpting in Virtual Reality.« In IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality (ICVR), IEEE, 515-523.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICVR57957.2023.10169420
Siqueira Rodrigues, L., Nyakatura, J., Zachow, S., Israel, J. H. 2023. »Design Challenges and Opportunities of Fossil Preparation Tools and Methods.« In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Culture and Computer Science: Code and Materiality, KUI '23. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 1-10.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3623462.3623470
Kaminski, W. E., Keppler, S., Israel, J. H. I. 2022. »Physics-Based Hand-Object-Interaction for Immersive Environments.« ACM.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3543758.3547569
Articles
Israel, J. H., Kassung, C., Sieck, J. 2022. »Culture and Computer Science – Physical and Virtual Spaces.« i-com, 21 (1): 3-5.
https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2022-0017/html
Bonnici, A., Akman, A., Calleja, G., Camilleri, K. P., Fehling, P., Ferreira, A., Hermuth, F., Israel, J. H., Landwehr, T., Liu, J., Padfield, N. M. J., Sezgin, T. M., Rosin, P. L. 2019. »Sketch-based interaction and modeling: where do we stand?« Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 33 (4): 370-388.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060419000349
Conference Proceedings
Rodrigues, L., Nyakatura, J., Zachow, S., Israel, J. H. 2022. »An Immersive Virtual Paleontology Application.« 13th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2022. Springer, 478-481.
Software Publications
Siquera Rodrigues, L., Riehm, F., Zachow, S., Israel, J. H. 2023. VoxSculpt (Open-Source Repository).
https://github.com/lsrodri/VoxSculpt
Events & Workshops
Rodrigues, L.S., Israel, J. H., Nyakatura, J., Schmidt, T., Zachow, S., Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften – Gedächtnistraining in VR – Sind Deine Sinne bereit für eine Herausforderung? Zuse Institute Berlin. 17 June 2023.
https://www.langenachtderwissenschaften.de/programm/detail/91402?tx_aaevents_programmpunkte%5BbackPid%5D=18&tx_aaevents_programmpunkte%5Bprevaction%5D=list&cHash=15c88b7220491066b0b062fbf45993d7
Bianchini, S., Ribault P. (moderators), Becker, J., Bredekamp, H., Israel, J. H., Picht, T., Shildrick, M. (guests). »Dissect« – An artificially intelligent robot performing a ritual of purification known as ›skin-cutting‹. Discussion about Marco Donnarumma's ›Amygdala‹. Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École polytechnique, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, Museum of Decorative Arts, Tieranatomisches Theater, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2 November 2022.
https://berlinscienceweek.com/event/dissect/