Research Trends in Media Informatics (Seminar)

Media Informatics is a broad field spanning many research directions and topics. The Internet, Web 2.0, Social Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, Usability, Social Interaction, HCI, Privacy, Trust and new Security mechanisms are just a few examples. This seminar aims to provide an overview of different research directions and current challenges that are focus of active research around the world and at our institute.

Conference Program

9:30	Welcome
9:35	Keynote by Prof. Dr. Enrico Rukzio: Current and Future Research Topics of the Institute of Media Informatics

10:30

Coffee break

Session 1: Tracking and Sensing

10:45	State of the Art: Eye Tracking Technology and Applications
11:15	State of the Art in Body Tracking
11:45	Google Glass and the State of the Art in Wearable Computing
12:15	An Overview of Consumer-Available Depth-Sensing Technologies

12:45

Lunch break

Session 2: UbiComp and the Home

14:00	Serious Games from a UbiComp Perspective
14:30	The Future of Remote Controls: New Ways of Interacting with Home Entertainment Systems
15:00	Wireless Optical Communication: Infrared, Time-Of-Flight, Light Fields, and Beyond

15:30

Coffee break

Session 3: Novel Challenges

15:45	User Interfaces for Privacy Awareness and Control
16:15	Error Handling Strategies of Recognition-based Dialog Systems
16:45	Interaction Issues during Autonomous Driving

17:15	Closing Remarks & Best Paper Award

Location

The conference will take place at:

"Villa Eberhardt", Heidenheimer Straße 80, 89075 Ulm

To successfully complete the seminar the following requirements have to be fulfilled:

• Written paper on a selected topic
  6-8 pages, German or English (English preferred)
• Active participation
  Active participation in peer reviews and discussions
• Presentation
  20 minutes, German or English

The seminar organization and schedule follow the style of a typical technical conference. Participants prepare a full paper on a topic, which is then peer-reviewed by at least two other students. Participants then must integrate the reviewer comments before submitting their camera-ready version of the paper.

The seminar proceedings with all final papers will be published on Uni Ulm VTS.

17.10.	Topic assignment and overview
24.10.	Research introduction
3.11.	Submission paper proposal
4.-8.11.	Proposal discussion with adviser*
7.11.	LaTeX introduction
22.12.	Submission full paper
23.12.	Assignment of reviews
6.1.	Submission peer reviews
6.-10.1.	Discussion of required changes with adviser*
30.1.	Zen presentations - or how to avoid death by PowerPoint 10:00 Uhr (st) | O27/331
2.2.	Submission camera ready version of paper
3.-13.2.	Discussion of presentation with adviser*
14.2.	RTMI conference

All deadlines are hard deadlines. No extensions will be granted. All submissions via ILIAS.

Dates for plenary meetings can be discussed at the first meeting to suit individual schedules.

*Please make an individual appointment with your adviser beforehand.

TopicStudentAdviser

1	User Interfaces for Privacy Awareness and Control	Laura Irlinger	Bastian Könings
2	State of the Art: Eye Tracking Technology and Applications	Patryk Boczon	Felix Schüssel
3	Interaction issues during autonomous driving	Tamino Hartmann	Michael Weber
4	Serious Games from a Ubicomp Perspective	Michael Legner	Michael Weber
5	The state-of-art in body tracking using computer vision	Thamar Hodenberg	Christian Winkler
6	Die Zukunft der Fernbedienung: Interaktionsmöglichkeiten im Home Entertainment	Florian Wilpert	Felix Schüssel
7	An Overview of Low-Cost, Consumer-Available Depth-Sensing Technologies	Andreas Köll	Florian Geiselhart
8	Wireless Optical Communication: Infrared, Time-Of-Flight, Light Fields, and Beyond	Jonas Kraus	Christian Winkler
9	Google Glass and the State of the Art in Wearable Computing	Andreas Schmid	Bastian Könings
10	Error handling strategies of recognition-based dialog systems	Ömer Sahin	Sven Reichel