The Research Group for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering was until Dezember 2010 led by Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt. Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt is now supervisor of the Human-Computer-Interaction Group (hciLab), which is part of the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) of the University of Stuttgart. 

Independent of this change to the University of Stuttgart Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt is still part of the executive board of the paluno - The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology.