Maximilian Speicher
I'm a computer scientist who fell in with design. My work as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan School of Information is strongly focused on crowdsourcing & natural user interfaces. Prior to that, for two years, I've helped grow HoloBuilder Inc., an AR/VR start-up, as their VP of Data Analytics. In 2016, I received my Ph.D. degree from Chemnitz University of Technology. Before, I obtained a M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich & a B.Sc. in the same field from RWTH Aachen University, minoring in Business Administration.

Also, I'm a Ringtennis enthusiast & the men's captain of the German national Ringtennis team.


Selected Projects

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Curriculum Vitae

 work

since 2017University of Michigan: Research Fellow
2015—2017bitstars GmbH: Vice President of Customer & Data Analytics & Optimization
2013—2014R&D, Unister GmbH: Researcher / Industrial Ph.D. Student
2012R&D, Unister GmbH: Intern
2010—2011ETH Zurich: Research Assistant, Global Information Systems Group
2009—2010GFIU mbH: Student Assistant, Internet Business Development

 education

2013—2016Chemnitz University of Technology: Dr.-Ing., Computer Science 
2012—2013University of Central Lancashire: Certificates, Astronomy/Cosmology 
2011Business Tools AG: Project Management Course (6 PDUs, Category 4) 
2010—2012ETH Zurich: M.Sc., Computer Science 
2008—2010RWTH Aachen University: B.Sc., Computer Science (minor in Business Administration) 

 hobbies

Astronomy, Cinema, Cosmology, Design, Literature, Music (Drums), Poetry, Ringtennis, Table Football, Travel, Web Technologies, Writing


Honors & Awards

2016German Champion in Ringtennis, Men's Alternating Doubles
2015CHI '15 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM SIGCHI
2014German Champion in Ringtennis, Men's Doubles
2014World Team Champion in Ringtennis (vereeniging, south africa)
2013Industrial Ph.D. Scholarship, Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB)
2011Excellence Scholarship, ETH Zurich
2011German Champion in Ringtennis, Men's Alternating Doubles
2011German Team Champion in Ringtennis
2010Dean's List (Top 3%), RWTH Aachen University
2009Dean's List (Top 3%), RWTH Aachen University
2008German Champion in Ringtennis, Men's Singles
2007Carl Schuhmann Medal, Deutscher Turner-Bund
2007German Champion in Ringtennis, Mixed Doubles
2006World Team Champion in Ringtennis (chennai, india)


Publications

  1. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2016). REFOCUS: Current and Future Search Interface Requirements for German-speaking Users. In: Proc. ICWI. [ BibTeX ]  
  2. Daniela Antkowiak, Christian Kohlschein, Roksaneh Krooß, Maximilian Speicher, Tobias Meisen, Sabina Jeschke, and Cornelius Werner (2016). Language Therapy of Aphasia Supported by Augmented Reality Applications. In: Proc. IEEE Healthcom. [ C, BibTeX ]  
  3. Maximilian Speicher, Kristina Tenhaft, Simon Heinen, and Harry Handorf (2015). Enabling Industry 4.0 with holobuilder. In: Proc. INFORMATIK. [ BibTeX ]  
  4. Maximilian Speicher, Sebastian Nuck, Lars Wesemann, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2015). From TMR to Turtle: Predicting Result Relevance from Mouse Cursor Interactions in Web Search. Journal of Web Engineering 14(5&6), 386–413. [ BibTeX ]  
  5. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2015). Inuit: The Interface Usability Instrument. In: Proc. DUXU. [ BibTeX ]  
  6. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2015). S.O.S.: Does Your Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Need Help?. In: Proc. ACM CHI. [ 23%, A*, BibTeX ]  
  7. Maximilian Speicher (2015). What is Usability? A Characterization based on ISO 9241-11 and ISO/IEC 25010. Technical Report CSR-15-02. Department of Computer Science, Technische Universität Chemnitz. [ BibTeX ]  
  8. Andreas Both, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, Ricardo Usbeck, Denis Lukovnikov, Christiane Lemke, and Maximilian Speicher (2014). A Service-oriented Search Framework for Full Text, Geospatial and Semantic Search. In: Proc. ACM SEMANTiCS. [ 37%, BibTeX ]  
  9. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2014). Ensuring Web Interface Quality through Usability-based Split Testing. In: Proc. ICWE. [ 20%, B, BibTeX ]  
  10. Maximilian Speicher, Sebastian Nuck, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2014). StreamMyRelevance! Prediction of Result Relevance from Real-Time Interactions and its Application to Hotel Search. In: Proc. ICWE. [ 20%, B, BibTeX ]  
  11. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2014). WaPPU: Usability-based A/B Testing. In: Proc. ICWE (Demos). [ B, BibTeX ]  
  12. Maximilian Speicher (2014). Paving the Path to Content-centric and Device-agnostic Web Design. In: Proc. ICWE (Posters). [ B, BibTeX ]  
  13. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2013). TellMyRelevance! Predicting the Relevance of Web Search Results from Cursor Interactions. In: Proc. ACM CIKM. [ 16.9%, A, BibTeX ]  
  14. Michael Röder, Maximilian Speicher, and Ricardo Usbeck (2013). Investigating Quality Raters' Performance Using Interface Evaluation Methods. In: Proc. INFORMATIK (Posters). [ BibTeX ]  
  15. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2013). Towards Metric-based Usability Evaluation of Online Web Interfaces. In: Mensch & Computer Workshopband. [ BibTeX ]  
  16. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, and Martin Gaedke (2013). Was that Webpage Pleasant to Use? Predicting Usability Quantitatively from Interactions. In: ICWE Workshops. [ C, BibTeX ]  
  17. Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, and Moira C. Norrie (2013). W3Touch: Metrics-based Web Page Adaptation for Touch. In: Proc. ACM CHI. [ 20%, A*, BibTeX ]  
  18. Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, and Moira C. Norrie (2013). CrowdAdapt: Enabling Crowdsourced Web Page Adaptation for Individual Viewing Conditions and Preferences. In: Proc. ACM EICS. [ 23%, BibTeX ]  
  19. Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, and Moira C. Norrie (2013). CrowdStudy: General Toolkit for Crowdsourced Evaluation of Web Interfaces. In: Proc. ACM EICS. [ 23%, BibTeX ]  
  20. Michael Nebeling, Maximilian Speicher, Michael Grossniklaus, and Moira C. Norrie (2012). Crowdsourced Web Site Evaluation with CrowdStudy. In: Proc. ICWE (Demos). [ C, BibTeX ]  
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