IK 2012
I will participate in this year's Interdisciplinary College 2012 in Günne, Lake Möhnesee from 16. - 23. march and present a poster. The abstract is available here.
Research visit at ICT, USC, LA
I am really glad to be invited by the Institute of Creative Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles for a research visit in summer. Today I got approval for funding and the flights are booked! I will be in Los Angeles from June till August and work on an evaluation of my software. Really looking forward!
Software prototype
In the past month I developed a first prototype for my virtual rehabilitation software. It is written in Java, uses the Processing and SimpleOpenNI framework and is based on Microsoft Kinect/Primesense sensor data. The prototype demonstrates the basic idea of using generative design methods for virtual rehabilitation. The next step is to develop it further into a open source middleware library for Processing for this purpose. This library will then be available for download.
Some pictures demonstrate the prototype:
Status reports
In october and november my status reports for both the phd-program and the Heinrich-Böll foundation were due. They are available on request.
PRESENCE 2011
I participated in this year's PRESENCE meeting of the International Society for Presence Research in Edinburgh, Scotland from 26.-28.10.2011. I have a five pages review of my impressions from this meeting, which is available on request.
Poster presentation on Campus 2011
I participated in this year's "Campus" summer academy of the Heinrich-Böll foundation and I presented my phd project with a poster.
ICVR 2011
I visited the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation 2011 in Zürich, Switzerland from 27.-29. june 2011. I have a five pages review of my impressions, which is available on request.
IK 2011
I visited the Interdisciplinary College 2011 in Günne, Lake Möhnesee from 25.3. - 1.4.2011. It was kind of a crash-course in cognitive science for me. And at the right moment: I started my work at the cognitive science department in April!
Campusemerge Award
We were awarded with the campusemerge-prize for our blended learning concept. The prize is promoted by the "Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK)", the "Kompetenzzentrum Hochschuldidaktik Niedersachsen (kh:n)" and the "e-learning academic network (elan-ev)". I worked on the blended learning concept and the video contribution for campusemerge together with Prof. Dr. Karsten Morisse and Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Svenja Wichelhaus from the University of Applied Science, Osnabrück. Our contribution has been chosen by public vote and an expert-jury. Many thanks to all supporters!
This is the video of our application:
Scholarship for my PhD-project
Good news for my PhD-studies! My project "Therapeutic Presence" will be funded with a scholarship starting April 2011. The scholarship is granted by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin for 2 years.
