Program Overview

Proseminar Media Informatics

The Proseminar Media Informatics is a seminar offered by the Department of Informatics.

Lecturers and In Charge

The lecturers for this seminar are Prof. Dr. Hu羥ann, Prof. Dr. Schmidt, and Prof. Dr. Mayer. The individuals in charge are Jingyi Li, Francesco Chiossi, Sophia Sakel, Kai Holl鄚der, Carl Oechsner, Bettina Eska, Julian Rasch, Florian Lang, Jacob Karolus, and Jesse Grootjen.

Hours per Week and ECTS-Credits

The seminar consists of 2 hours per week and is worth 3 ECTS-Credits.

Module

This seminar is part of the modules 14.4: Seminar zur ausgew鄣lten Themen der Informatik (for Bachelor Medieninformatik) and 12.1: Seminar zur ausgew鄣lten Themen der Informatik (for Bachelor Informatik).

Goals

The goals of this seminar are to:

• Learn to work scientifically
• Prepare for the Bachelor thesis
• Get to know a new topic
• Practice English

Location and Schedule

The seminar takes place via Zoom. The schedule includes the following dates:

• 21.10.2021: Kick-Off & Introduction
• 09.11.2021: Submission of slides for 90-seconds pitches
• 11.11.2021: 90-sec Pitches - Short Presentation of your topics
• 04.02.2022: Submission of final paper
• 09.02.2022: Submission of final presentation
• 11.02.2022: Final presentations

The groups are divided as follows:

• Group 1: Jingyi Li, Francesco Chiossi, Sophia Sakel (Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Hu羥ann)
• Group 2: Florian Lang, Jacob Karolus, Jesse Grootjen (Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Schmidt)
• Group 3: Kai Holl鄚der, Carl Oechsner, Bettina Eska, Julian Rasch (Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Mayer)

Material

A LaTeX template for the written submission is provided.

Contents

The seminar aims to convey and promote the basics of research, documentation, and presentation of scientific work. Students will present the state of research and current developments in sub-areas of human-machine interaction. Attendance is compulsory for all lecture dates. The lecture course is suitable for Media Informatics students (Bachelor).

Topics

Each supervisor will supply 10 topics from their general topic direction. The topics include:

• Passenger Safety and Comfort
• Body Aware Interfaces in the Virtuality Continuum
• Personal Informatics & Mobile Sensing
• Digitizing Human-AV interaction
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Technology for Well-Being
• VR and AR as Assistive Technology for people with visual impairment
• Physiological Sensing and Adaptive Interfaces - A User-Centered Reflection Approach
• Implicit Detection of Visual Impairments using Eye Tracking

Rules for Online Teaching

While the university is closed, most teaching happens online. The rules for online teaching include:

• In live meetings, participants are asked to responsibly deal with audio and bandwidth.
• Recording or redirecting streams by participants is not allowed.
• Distributing content in other channels than those foreseen by the author is not allowed. If these rules are violated, participants can expect to be expelled from the course, and further action may be taken.