Martin Kaltenbrunner
Professor For Tangible Interaction Design at University of Arts Linz
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolMartin Kaltenbrunner is a professor and innovator in tangible interaction design, leading the Tangible Music Lab and the Postdigital Lutherie master's program at the University of Arts Linz. With over a decade of academic and research experience, he co-created the Reactable tangible synthesizer and authored the widely adopted open-source reacTIVision framework and TUIO protocol for tangible interactive surfaces. His work sits at the intersection of music, design and HCI, translating playful physical interactions into robust software tooling for creative production. Martin combines long-term research appointments across European institutions with entrepreneurial experience founding Reactable Systems, evidencing both scholarly depth and practical product impact. An interesting thread through his career is consistently turning performance-oriented music research into open, reusable technologies that have become standards in tangible interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Medientechnik- & Design, Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Medientechnik- & Design at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaDEA, Computer Science and Digital Communication, DEA, Computer Science and Digital Communication at Universitat Pompeu FabraDoctor of Engineering, Doctor of Engineering at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
German, English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
image-processing10
vision-framework10
tuio10
computer-vision10
samsung9
raii9
reference-implementation9
cpp8
midi-controller8
uvc8
cpp-library8
csharp8
driver7
dotnet7
openipc7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mkalten/TUIO11_JAVA
Nov 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
javareference-implementation
mkalten/TUIO11_NET
Nov 2014 - Apr 2017
.NET TUIO 1.1 reference implementation
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
c-sharpcsharpdotnetreference-implementationtuio
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