graph-ix.net is the website of Markus Weiland. On my blog Advancing Usability I write about user interfaces as well as interactions between IT and society. My forays into photography are on display at PhotoMW on SmugMug.

Short Bio

I am currently working as a software developer for user interfaces of mobile email applications at the Montreal, Canada, office of a multinational corporation. I have a B.Eng.Sc. and a German Diplom degree (equivalent to a Master's degree) from the Dresden University of Technology in Computer Science and Media. My specializations are in Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering and Data Security & Privacy.

Publications

  • Facet Folders: Flexible Filter Hierarchies with Faceted Metadata

    Weiland, M. and Dachselt, R.

    In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 3735-3740.

    Accepted to the CHI Student Research Competition.

    DOI link

  • FacetZoom: A Continuous Multi-Scale Widget for Navigating Hierarchical Metadata

    Dachselt, R., Frisch, M. and Weiland, M.

    In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 1353-1356.

    DOI link

  • TimeZoom: A Flexible Detail and Context Timeline

    Dachselt, R. and Weiland, M.

    In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM, New York, NY, 682-687.

    Download the article.

    DOI link

Essays and studies

Projects

  • SLUB Library information system // 2005

    This project was realized during an internship course at university. The goal was to develop an application for the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) which would help visitors locate bookshelves and services in the library building. Within the project, I was charged with designing the software architecture and responsible for major parts of the implementation.

    The application was successfully delivered on time and deployed on the library's public computers. It remains in active use up to this day and can be reached here.

  • Maya2Lw // 2001

    Maya2Lw was a free collection of scripts for Autodesk Maya which gave artists the ability to export animations created in Maya to be rendered in Newtek Lightwave. I developed these scripts between 2001 and 2003. Download the last version here.

Contact

To contact me, please send an email to mw at graph-ix.net.