Patrick Tobias Fischer

Prof. Patrick Tobias Fischer holds a position as Assistant Professor of User Experience and Design at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg within the Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Computer Science. His research focuses on Urban HCI, Media Architecture, and public interaction design with notable projects like the Spread.gun urban interface and Georg II facade mapping. He leads the UX Design Lab and is affiliated with the Zentrum für innovative Angewandte Informatik (ZIAI) and Smart City Research Lab (SCRL).

His academic work spans interactive urban installations, including Liquid Ornament (Silberstreifen Award 2021) and participatory media facade projects. He has organized conferences like KUI 2024 and served on program committees for CHI, DIS, and PerDis. Awards include the FILE PRIX LUX (2011) and EPSRC Vacation Bursary (2012).

Teaching responsibilities include Urban Interaction Design, Advanced HCI, and courses on multimedia systems. He supervises student projects exploring public interfaces, IoT, and tangible user interfaces. Research also involves free-to-roam evaluation techniques and material-based interaction design.

• Education: Doctorate and academic career in Human-Computer Interaction
• Affiliations: Member of ACM and IEEE, contributor to interdisciplinary urban tech initiatives
• Grants: Robert Bosch Stiftung funding (2017), Bridging the Gap Research Award (2011)
• Labs: UX Design Lab (WE5N/02.05), Smart City Research collaborations