Jan Borchers leads the Media Computing Group in the Computer Science Department at RWTH Aachen University. With his team, he studies, designs, and develops new interaction techniques and technologies. His group is one of Germany’s best-published research labs at CHI, the premier international HCI conference. Before joining RWTH, he held faculty positions at Stanford University and ETH Zurich. He helped bring the concept of HCI Design Patterns to the HCI community. As part of his interest in Personal Digital Fabrication, he has also been running Germany’s first Fab Lab since 2009.