Hi! Currently, I work as a student assistant in the FabLab. If you have any questions regarding the lab, don't hesitate to reach out to me!
If you want to see in detail what I have done at the chair, take a look at the timeline below.
I solemnly swear I am up to some good.
My timeline
Multimodal Media Madness
(2023 SS) –
Bachelor's Practical Lab
See project here
Designing Interactive Systems 1
(2023 WS) –
See project here
Bachelor Thesis
(2024 SS) –
Under supervision of Oliver Nowak
· Bachelor Thesis
Enabling Twist and Fold Interactions with Textile Icons
Under the supervision of Oliver Nowak, I expanded on his research about textile interfaces in the form of textile icons by investigating and prototyping icons that can be grabbed, twisted, and folded.
Media Computing Project
(2024 WS) –
Master's Practical Lab
See project here
· Publication
The Deceptive Dungeon: Bringing Deceptive Patterns to the Physical World
In the first few months of 2025, I had the amazing opportunity to participate in the Student Game Competition at CHI'25 with the Deceptive Dungeon, the interactive exhibit that was created in the 2024/2025 winter term's Media Computing Project under the supervision of René Schäfer and Prof. Borchers.
Together with Pascal Raabe and Erik Østlyngen I presented the work at the conference in Yokohama, Japan in April 2025, a great experience to visit CHI and present there.
Oh, and also: We won!
The Deceptive Dungeon: Bringing Deceptive Patterns to the Physical World
CHI'25 Student Games Competition
Designing Interactive Systems 2 &
Current Topics in HCI
(2025 SS) –
See the CTHCI project here
Post-Desktop User Interfaces
(2025 WS) –
Master's Seminar
iOS Development
(2026 WS) –
Link to Project coming soon
Student assistant
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Working in the Fab Lab
First under the supervision of René Schäfer, and now under the supervision of Lea Schirp and Karl Deilmann.
Over the years, I have worked with other student assistants who were responsible for the Fab Lab: Esra Güney, Robert Rudnev, and currently Frederik Hilpert.
If you have any questions regarding the lab, don't hesitate to reach out to me!
My responsibilities are mainly to keep the Lab well-equipped, maintain the machines and tools we have, and introduce students who need to use them for their thesis or during their practical courses.
In the context of the Open Lab Day I also use our machines together with visitors to realize DIY projects.
Occasionally, we are visited by groups of children interested in fabrication. I have led some small workshops where the children were introduced to the lab and could build a small project (e.g. the Helle Köpfe 2026).
I also sometimes accompany, help to organize, and document the monthly Aachen Maker Meetup that takes place at our chair.
Publications
- Julian Wallerius, Pascal Raabe, Erik Østlyngen, Nuray Agaoglu, Lars vom Bruch, Siyan Chen, Mats Frenk, Yitong Guo, David Elias Chris Kopczynski, Hana Masara, Thomas Pollert, Shu Zhang, René Schäfer and Jan Borchers. The Deceptive Dungeon: Bringing Deceptive Patterns to the Physical World. In Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA '25, pages 4, Association for Computing Machinery, April 2025.
- Julian Wallerius. Grablets: Enabling Twist and Fold Interactions with Textile Icons. Bachelor's Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, October 2024.