Program Overview

Advanced Seminar Media Informatics

The Advanced Seminar Media Informatics is a comprehensive course that delves into the intricacies of virtual and augmented reality.

Lecturer and Person in Charge

• Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Florian Alt
• Person in charge: Ceenu George
• Hours per week: 2
• ECTS credits: 6
• Module: P4.1 and P4.2: Seminar on Media Informatics and Social Competence (for Master's students)

Dates and Locations

• Dates: Mandatory sessions are always on Wednesdays; see the schedule for specifics.
• Location: Oettingenstr., Room 161

Contents

The topic of this semester's seminar is Virtual and Augmented Reality. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• VR / AR Display Technology
• Input Devices for VR / AR
• Interaction Techniques for Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Multi-User and Distributed VR / AR
• Multimodal VR / AR (haptics / audio / brain-computer interfaces)
• Collaborative VR / AR
• Tracking and Sensing in VR / AR
• Application Areas of VR / AR
• Presence and Cognition in VR / AR
• Security in Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Technology acceptance and social implications

This lecture course is suitable for:

• Media informatics students (Diploma)
• Media informatics students (Master)
• Computer science students (Diploma)

Registration

Applicants will be informed about the outcome of the place allocation by email via UniWorX until the start of the event.

Criteria

The criteria for participation include:

• Attendance at all in-person sessions
• 90-second presentation including a discussion of the presentation style
• Preparation of a written work in English (6-8 pages, double-column)
• Discussion of all intermediate stages of the written work with the supervisor
• Review of at least two written works by fellow students
• Trial presentation
• Final presentation (15 minutes + 5 minutes discussion) at the end of the semester
• The working language in this course is English

Material

The course materials include:

• Slides from the introductory event
• Slides on how to review a scientific paper
• Slides on how to present scientific work
• Updated PowerPoint template for presentations
• Optional PowerPoint template for presentations
• LaTeX template for the written work
• Review form (docx)
• Chat for group discussion on the main seminar in Slack: hs_ss17

Schedule

The schedule for the seminar is as follows:

• 26.04.2017: Introduction and topic allocation
• 17.05.2017: Submission of the preliminary written work / annotated outline (2-3 pages)
• 22.05.2017: Submission of the 90-second presentation slides
• 24.05.2017: Start of the 90-second presentations
• 31.05.2017: How to write reviews
• Submission of the completed written work for review by supervisors and 2 fellow students
• 14.06.2017 (12:00 PM): Submission of reviews
• 21.06.2017: Distribution of reviews and general feedback for participants
• 07.07.2017: Submission of the revised written work
• 13.07.2017: Submission of the preliminary presentation slides (extended due to UniWorX outage)
• 11-18.07.2017: Independent trial presentations in small groups
• 19.07.2017: Submission of the final presentation slides
• 02.08.2017: Presentation day (9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Room 169, Oettingenstr. 67)

Seminartag, 02.08.2017

The presentation schedule for the seminar day is as follows:

• 09:00-09:20: Manuel Hartmann
• 09:20-09:40: Daniela Becker
• 09:40-10:00: Patrick Nagel
• 10:00-10:10: Break
• 10:10-10:30: Roman Schader
• 10:30-10:50: Daniel Seliger
• 10:50-11:10: Barbara Schindler
• 11:10-11:20: Break
• 11:20-11:40: Vanessa Niedermeier
• 11:40-12:00: Harald Brunner
• 12:00-12:20: Beat Rossmy
• 12:20-13:20: Lunch break
• 13:20-13:40: Dario Casadevall
• 13:40-14:00: Gamze Ulucan
• 14:00-14:20: Michael Gerber
• 14:20-14:30: Break
• 14:30-14:50: Michael Herzog
• 14:50-15:10: Julia Wayrauther