Sensorimotor Interaction Group
The Sensorimotor Interaction Group (senSInt) at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics investigates how human perception and action shape our experience of the world, and how this understanding can inform the design of interactive technologies.
Led by Paul Strohmeier, our research combines human-computer interaction, perceptual science, and engineering. We study how people perceive and act through their bodies, and develop interactive systems that enable new ways of experiencing ourselves, engaging with the physical world, and interacting with technology.
Our work spans haptic rendering, sensorimotor augmentation, embodied interaction, and on-body systems.
We share research facilities with the HCI Lab at Saarland University.
senSInt at the Saarschleife. Left to right: Fariborz, Sara, Easa, Valentin, Yuran, Gaby, Wiam, Paul and Reshma.
Research
We experience the world through the connection between what we do and what we sense. Moving a hand, touching a surface, or playing an instrument changes the feedback we receive—and how the world feels.
We study these sensorimotor relationships and use them to design interactive technology. Our work combines experiments on perception and action with new ways of sensing movement, creating tactile feedback, and integrating devices with the body.
Recent Publications
2026: Towards sensory attenuation as a measure of agency provided by digital musical instruments – Erik Peralta Løvaas, Courtney N. Reed, Paul Strohmeier
2026: An All-Textile, Mechano-Capacitive Subtle Movement Sensor – Easa AliAbbasi, Rachel Freire, Valentin Martinez‐Missir, Vineetha Rallabandi, Paul Strohmeier
2026: AI for Haptics and Haptics for AI: Challenges and Opportunities – Easa AliAbbasi, Dennis Wittchen, Yinan Li, Shihan Lu, Thomas Müller, Donald Degraen, Thomas Leimkühler, Sang Ho Yoon, Hasti Seifi, Oliver Schneider, Heather Culbertson, Jürgen Steimle, Paul Strohmeier
2026: How are Vibrotactile Experiences Visually Represented? A Taxonomy of Illustration Characteristics – Bruno Fruchard, Dennis Wittchen, Nihar Sabnis, Paul Strohmeier, Donald Degraen
2026: Connected Material Experiences using Bimanual Vibrotactile Crosstalk in Virtual Reality – Nihar Sabnis, André Zenner, Erik Peralta Løvaas, Marco Weiss, Andrea Bianchi, Paul Strohmeier
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