Dominik Weber

Apps

Services Info

for Android

Check, update, and manage the Google Play services.

30,000,000 downloads

Copy

for Android

Copy (almost) any text on the screen and share screenshots with two taps.

400,000 downloads

Desktop Notifications

for Android and Chrome/Firefox

Mirror Android notifications across smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

600,000 downloads (discontinued)

Notification Log

for Android

A simple tool to record, view, and export Android notifications.

600,000 downloads

About

Dominik Weber is a software engineer in Munich. Previously, he worked as a PhD researcher in computer science/ human-computer interaction (HCI) at the University of Stuttgart. His research focused on large-scale in-the-wild studies and the management of notifications in multi-device environments.

Since Nov 2023: Senior Software Engineer in Munich, Germany
Oct 2019 - Oct 2023: Software Engineer in Munich, Germany
Feb 2015 - Jun 2019: PhD researcher in the Human-Computer Interaction group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
May 2018 - Aug 2018: Software Engineer Internship (Research) in Mountain View, CA, USA
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017: Software Engineer Internship (Research) in Mountain View, CA, USA
Feb 2012 - Dec 2014: Student Assistant in the Human-Computer Interaction group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany
Oct 2008 - Jan 2015: Diplom in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf.) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany (graduated with honors)

Selected Publications

Empirical Assessment and Improvement of Ubiquitous Notifications
Dominik Weber
2023. Dissertation. University of Stuttgart: Faculty for Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Stuttgart Research Centre for Simulation Technology. DOI

Annotif: A System for Annotating Mobile Notifications in User Studies
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Gisela Kollotzek, and Niels Henze.
2019. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 24, 12 pages. DOI

Clear All: A Large-Scale Observational Study on Mobile Notification Drawers
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, and Niels Henze.
2019. In Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019 (MuC '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 361-372. DOI

Notification Log: An Open-Source Framework for Notification Research on Mobile Devices
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, and Niels Henze.
2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1271-1278. DOI

Qualitative Investigation of Multi-Device Notifications
Alexandra Voit, Dominik Weber, and Niels Henze.
2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1263-1270. DOI

Snooze! Investigating the User-Defined Deferral of Mobile Notifications
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Jonas Auda, Stefan Schneegass, and Niels Henze.
2018. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 13 pages. DOI

PD Notify: Investigating Personal Content on Public Displays
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Gisela Kollotzek, Lucas van der Vekens, Marcus Hepting, Florian Alt, and Niels Henze.
2018. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages LBW014, 6 pages. DOI

Understanding User Preferences towards Rule-based Notification Deferral
Jonas Auda, Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, and Stefan Schneegass.
2018. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Pages LBW584, 6 pages. DOI

Language Learning On-The-Go: Opportune Moments and Design of Mobile Microlearning Sessions
Tilman Dingler, Dominik Weber, Martin Pielot, Jennifer Cooper, Chung-Cheng Chang, and Niels Henze.
2017. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 28, 12 pages. DOI

In-Situ Investigation of Notifications in Multi-Device Environments
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Philipp Kratzer, and Niels Henze.
2016. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1259-1264. DOI

Notification Dashboard: Enabling Reflection on Mobile Notifications
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Huy Viet Le, and Niels Henze.
2016. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (MobileHCI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 936-941. DOI

Design Guidelines for Notifications on Smart TVs
Dominik Weber, Sven Mayer, Alexandra Voit, Rodrigo Ventura Fierro, and Niels Henze.
2016. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (TVX '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13-24. DOI

Large-Scale Assessment of Mobile Notifications
Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Niels Henze, Tilman Dingler, Martin Pielot, Dominik Weber, and Albrecht Schmidt.
2014. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3055-3064. DOI

All Publications on Google Scholar

Organized Workshops

UbiTtention 2019: 4th International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management
Anja Exler, Alexandra Voit, Dominik Weber, Martin Pielot, Nitesh Goyal, Sven Gehring, Tadashi Okoshi, and Veljko Pejovic.
2019. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1054-1057. DOI

UbiTtention 2018: 3rd International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management
Dominik Weber, Anja Exler, Alexandra Voit, Niels Henze, Sven Gehring, Tadashi Okoshi, and Veljko Pejovic.
2018. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers (UbiComp '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1190-1193. DOI

Intelligent Notification and Attention Management on Mobile Devices
Dominik Weber, Alexandra Voit, Anja Exler, Svenja Schröder, Matthias Böhmer, and Tadashi Okoshi.
2017. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 561-565. DOI

UbiTtention 2017: 2nd International Workshop on Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management
Tadashi Okoshi, Anja Exler, Alexandra Voit, Dominik Weber, Martin Pielot, Benjamin Poppinga, Niels Henze, Sven Gehring, Matthias Böhmer, SeungJun Kim, and Veljko Pejovic.
2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 893-897. DOI

UbiTtention: Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management
Alexandra Voit, Benjamin Poppinga, Dominik Weber, Matthias Böhmer, Niels Henze, Sven Gehring, Tadashi Okoshi, and Veljko Pejovic.
2016. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (UbiComp '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1520-1523. DOI

Smarttention, Please!: 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices
Dominik Weber, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Sven Gehring, Niels Henze, Benjamin Poppinga, Martin Pielot, and Tadashi Okoshi.
2016. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (MobileHCI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 914-917. DOI

Research Projects

Scientific Activities

Reviewer for the scientific conferences and journals CHI (2016-2017, 2019), EICS (2018), IJHCS (2018), IMWUT (2019), ISWC (2019), Mensch und Computer (2015, 2017-2019), MobileHCI (2016-2020), MUM (2015), NordiCHI (2016), and UIST (2017).
Special recognitions for outstanding reviews at UIST 2017 and CHI 2019 (2x). Highly useful rated review at MobileHCI 2019.
Program committee member at Mensch und Computer 2017 and 2018.
Associate chair at Mensch und Computer 2019.
Organizing committee member at MUM 2017 (Proceedings Chair) and 2018 (Web Chair).
Student volunteer at Mensch und Computer 2015, MobileHCI 2017, MUM 2018, and CHI 2015-2019.
Accepted for the doctoral consortiums at TVX '16 and MobileHCI '17.

Conferences and Events

2023

Conference CHI '23 in Hamburg, Germany

2019

Conference CHI '19 in Glasgow, UK
Winter School 2019 “From Research to Start-Up” in Hirschegg, Austria

2018

Conference MUM '18 in Cairo, Egypt
Conference MobileHCI '18 in Barcelona, Spain
Conference CHI '18 in Montréal, Canada

2017

Conference MUM '17 in Stuttgart, Germany
Conference MobileHCI '17 in Vienna, Austria
Developer conference Google I/O '17 in Mountain View, CA, USA
Conference CHI '17 in Denver, CO, USA
Winter School 2017 on “Human-Computer Interaction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” in Hirschegg, Austria

2016

Conference UbiComp '16 in Heidelberg, Germany
Conference MobileHCI '16 in Florence, Italy
Conference TVX '16 in Chicago, IL, USA
Conference CHI '16 in San Jose, CA, USA
Winter School 2016 on “Human-Computer Interaction meets Software Engineering” in Hirschegg, Austria

2015

Conference Mensch und Computer '15 in Stuttgart, Germany
Conference MobileHCI '15 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer School 2015 “Computational Interaction” in Glasgow, UK
Conference CHI '15 in Seoul, South Korea

Teaching

Multimodal Interaction for Ubiquitous Computers (Winter 2018/2019)
Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (Summer 2018)
Programmierung für Medieninformatik (Winter 2017/2018)
Studienprojekt “Smart Calendar Platform” (Summer 2017 – Winter 2017/2018)
Medieninformatik-Projekt “Designing Ambient Displays for Activity Data Awareness” (Winter 2016/2017 – Summer 2017)
Girls' Day “Programmieren mit Processing” (2016)
Fachpraktikum “Interaktive Systeme” (Summer 2016)
Fachpraktikum “Interaktive Systeme” (Winter 2015/2016)
Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (Summer 2015)
Auswahlkommission Medieninformatik (2015-2018)

Press and Achievements

The Copy app reached 400,000 downloads in the Google Play Store (2024).
The Notification Log app reached 600,000 downloads in the Google Play Store (2023).
The Services Info app reached 30,000,000 downloads in the Google Play Store (2022).
Schutz vor zu viel Informationen wird wichtiger: Video on the importance of proactive information management. The video was part of the "future workplace" exhibit on the MS Wissenschaft (2018).
The Desktop Notifications app reached 500,000 downloads in the Google Play Store (2017).
infos award for an excellent diploma at the Faculty for Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Stuttgart (2015).
The Desktop Notifications app was featured internationally, e.g. on Lifehacker (2013), Golem.de (2013), and c't Magazin (Issue 23/2014).