Seminar Research Trends in Media Informatics, Winter Semester 2016/17
9th Seminar on Research Trends in Media Informatics (RTMI)
Media Informatics is a broad field spanning many research directions and topics. In this seminar we focus on research trends in human-computer interaction (HCI) in autonomous driving, assistive technologies, games, virtual reality and wearable computing. 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.
Requirements
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
Topics
The final topic assignments can be reviewed in the Moodle course. Please contact your advisor soon to receive a list of starting papers
| Topic | Advisor | |
| 1 | Textile Interfaces and Smart Clothing | David Dobbelstein |
| 2 | Social Acceptance of Interaction with Wearables | David Dobbelstein |
| 3 | Games in VR | Julian Frommel |
| 4 | Exergames | Julian Frommel |
| 5 | Haptic Feedback for Mobile Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays | Jan Gugenheimer |
| 6 | Social Acceptance of Mobile Virtual Reality Head-Mounted Displays | Jan Gugenheimer |
| 7 | Applying knowledge of aviation research to automated driving | Philipp Hock |
| 8 | Persuasive technologies in safety engineering | Philipp Hock |
| 9 | Understanding game addiction, analysis of state of the art games and mechanisms of persuasion | Philipp Hock |
| 10 | Investigating attitudes and acceptance towards automated driving and mechanisms to increase acceptance | Philipp Hock |
| 11 | Mobile Applications for Chronic Disease Management | Katrin Plaumann |
| 12 | Assistive Systems for Senior Citizens | Katrin Plaumann |
| 13 | Visual Redirection in Virtual Reality | Michael Rietzler |
| 14 | Sound FX and Player Experience | Katja Rogers |
| 15 | Designing for Negative Emotions in Video Games | Katja Rogers |
| 16 | Context-Adaptive Interaction Concepts for Future Vehicles | Marcel Walch |
| 17 | Teammates: Cooperative Driver-Vehicle Interfaces in Autonomous Driving | Marcel Walch |
| 18 | Hearables - voice user interfaces on the go | Gabriel Haas |
Students are also encouraged to propose topics of their own. The proceedings of the previous RTMI seminars (RTMI '16, RTMI '15, RTMI '14, RTMI'13, RTMI'12, RTMI'11, RTMI '10) may give you some ideas.
Lecturer
Advisers
David Dobbelstein (main contact)
Julia Brich
Julian Frommel
Florian Geiselhart
Gabriel Haas
Philipp Hock
Katrin Plaumann
Michael Rietzler
Katja Rogers
Marcel Walch
Details
Capacity: 12 students
The final seminar presentations will be held as the RTMI17 mini-conference at the end of the semester.
First meeting:
Date & Time:10/25/2016 14:00
O27/331