Seminar in Summer Term 2008

User Interface Engineering

Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimund Dachselt, Dipl. Medien-Inf. Mathias Frisch

Tuesday, 9:00 - 11:00
Room

Seminar room G29-K058
Credits

2 SWS, ECTS-Credits: 4
Sprache

Communication Language: English

Tabletop and Visualization Frameworks

Goals

Participants of the seminar will learn how to work scientifically and how to publish their own scientific paper on a recent research topic. The goal is to write an overview paper using several publications, to peer-review it using an online conference system and to finally present and discuss the work at a simulated conference. The result will be printed and online proceedings similar to a real conference. With this seminar, students shall be made acquainted with and better prepared for their own scientific working.

Research Topics

In recent years a multitude of novel concepts of visualization and interaction has been developed. Besides the improvement of classic graphical user interfaces, there is a focus of research on interaction techniques for tabletop and multitouch displays. These environments provide a more intuitive way of interaction, but require novel software frameworks due to parallel and continuous inputs of multiple users. A field of application little considered for tabletop environments, is the visualization of and the interaction with huge diagrams e.g, for software development. However in this field of information visualization frameworks and APIs were developed which can serve as a basis for future applications.
The research seminar shall analyze frameworks, toolkits and APIs and improve our understanding in the development of novel user interfaces, for instance on the following topics:

Tabletop- / Multitouch-Displays
Visualization of Graphs and Hierarchies
with a focus on Software Visualization.

Prerequisites

You can attend this seminar as a diploma or master student of several courses. See the UnivIS system for further details. All students are welcome, who are enthusiastic about this topic and eager to learn how to work and publish in science. English is a must, since most of the publications are written in this language. Part of your work will be to look for scientific papers, read them and write about it. However, creativity and your own ideas are most welcomed for our seminar work. Since the resulting papers are published online and printed, make sure you adhere to copyright regulations (details to follow). Expected number of participants: 20. Depending on the final number, 1-2 students are expected to work on a topic. Depending on the participants, this seminar will be taught in English or German.

Please register for this seminar with your name, course, year and e-mail address using the institute's office (or via e-mail).

Procedure

Start with an introduction to the topics and an overview of the field.
Inroduction to scientific work, writing papers, reviewing them etc.
Students work together in groups of two, look for relevant papers and write their own summary paper.
An intermediary presentation (5 minutes talk plus 5 minutes discussion) of each group introduces the summarized topics.
Written papers are peer-reviewed using an online conference system.
Last three sessions simulate a conference, where each group gives a 20 minutes presentation with additional 10 minutes of discussion.

Schedule

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Slides
01.04.2008	Introduction to the seminar, allocation of topics.	Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch	PDF
08.04.2008	No seminar, individual work.
15.04.2008	In-depth introduction to scientific work and publishing.	Raimund Dachselt	PDF
22.04.2008	Preparation of the short presentations.
29.04.2008	Short presentations of all topics/groups.	all participants
06.05.2008	Consultation and preparation of paper submission.
20.05.2008	Consultation, preparation of paper submission.
27.05.2008	No seminar, preparation of paper submission.
03.06.2008	Electronic paper submission until Monday, June 2 at 4 pm. Start of the peer reviewing process.	Raimund Dachselt	PDF
10.06.2008	No seminar, review work and preparation of final presentations.
17.06.2008	Reviews due. Discussion of suggested changes. Consultation for the final presentations/talks.
24.06.2008	UIE-Session 1 Comparison of Toolkits for Graph Visualization and Interaction An Overview of Software Visualization in 3D	Low, Kotzyba, Matthes Zhu	PDF PDF
01.07.2008	UIE-Session 2 Submission of the camera-ready papers Tabletop-Frameworks: A General Overview Multitouch Frameworks Tangible Widgets Toolkits	Langner, Witt, Schmidt Abou Khalil, Schemmer, Siemer Blume, Breunung, Brücher	PDF PDF PDF
08.07.2008	UIE-Session 3 Comparing Marker-Tracking-Frameworks for Tabletops and AR Applications Study on Augmented and Mixed Reality Frameworks	Behrens, Heidelbach, Schnaars, Stober Stellmach, Lüloff, Koppsieker	PDF PDF