The research is based on a Human-Centred Computing
perspective---that is, I aim to make a technological contribution
by developing technological concepts, platforms, and systems based
on an understanding of how people interact with and communicate
through computing technology.
I am head of the Cooperative Media Lab
(CML) which I founded in 2003 and where our projects
are focused on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW),
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI, User-Centred Design), Ubiquitous
Computing (UbiComp), and global Internet-based information
systems. For instance, we are currently participating in the
EU-project Adaptive Learning Spaces. We are winners of the
'Innovation Contest Industry Meets Academia'
('Innovationswettbewerb Wirtschaft trifft Wissenschaft'), received
this award on 22 April 2008, and will kick-off the funded project
TransKoop in the next few weeks. I am Invited Speaker at the
IHCI 2008 International Conference on Interfaces and
Human-Computer Interaction 2008.
From March 1999 to July 2003 I was involved in the several
projects while working at Fraunhofer FIT. For
instance, I was coordinating the activities in the EU-project
CYCLADES; I was part of the EU-project TOWER and the project
NESSIE coordinated by Wolfgang Prinz at
the CSCW Department of the Institute of Applied Information
Technology (GMD.FIT) at the German National Research Center for
Information Technology (GMD) (GMD was integrated into Fraunhofer
in the year 2000).
In the years 1993-1999 I was working with Roland
Traunmueller at the Institute of Applied Computer Science (now
called 'Institute of Informatics in Business and Government') at
the Johannes Kepler
University of Linz in Austria.
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