LISTEN will provide users with intuitive access to personalised and situated audio information spaces while they naturally explore everyday environments. A new form of multi-sensory content is proposed to enhance the sensual, emotional and pedagogical impact of a broad spectrum of applications ranging from art shows to marketing or entertainment events. This is achieved by augmenting the physical environment through a dynamic soundscape, which users experience over motion-tracked wireless headphones. Immersive audio-augmented environments are created by combining high-definition spatial audio rendering technology with advanced user modelling methods. These allow for adapting the content to the users’ individual spatial behaviour. The project will produce several prototypes and a VR-based authoring tool. Technological innovations will be validated under laboratory conditions whilst the prototypes will be evaluated in public exhibitions.

RAFT stands for Remote Accessible Field Trips and aims at facilitating field trips for schools. RAFT will be developed by an international consortium of universities, schools, software and hardware developers. The project started in July 02 and ended in 2006. i was the main coordinator of RAFT and some more infroamtion can be found on the websites.

:// National RAFT websites

For specific information about RAFT in Canada, Slovakia, Scotland and Germany click on the following links:

http://www.raft-project.org/

Im AILB-Projekt wird eine internetbasierte Lernsoftware für Gehörlose entwickelt, mit deren Hilfe Grundfertigkeiten in “Deutsch lesen” und “Mathematik-Arithmetik” erlernt und verbessert werden können. Letztere bilden die Voraussetzung für berufliche Weiterbildung, so dass die Lernsoftware von jungen in der beruflichen Ausbildung befindlichen Gehörlosen als Lernhilfe genutzt werden kann. Die AILB zeichnet sich durch die folgenden Besonderheiten aus:

Together with Moritz Stefaner (www.der-mo.net) we developed in the WINDS project a visualization for heterogenous neetworks. (see der-mo for a demo). This radial browser was designed to display complex concept network structures in a snappy and intuitive manner.

Click the center node for detail information or click adjacent nodes to put them in the center. The arrows on the top left can be used to navigate your click history. Use the dropdown in the upper right to directly access nodes by name. The varying distance to the center node for nodes with many neighbors was only introduced to enhance legibility and does not have a special semantics.

Out of the RAFT project a classroom partnership between Cologne and Turino was developed. Find a small overview here: ClassTurin.swf .

With the Mobile collector application you can collect and annotate digital media with a mobile Tablet PC and directly insert contents into a standard compliant LCMS. We demonstrated the application at the LearnTEC 2005.

Some slides can be seen here: Mobile Collector.swf

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology I developed the Intelligent Advertisement Board in a Project with Andreas Zimmermann, and Andreas Lorenz.

The AI Board is a intelligent SmartBoard Application that recognizes context Parameters as noice, movement, time, and numbers of people in front of it and adapts the presentation according to rules to the situation.
see a flash movie here AI-Board.swf

PROLEARN is a ‘Network of Excellence’ financed by the IST (Information Society Technology – Contract number 507310) programme of the European commission dealing with technology enhanced professional learning. Our mission is to bring together the most important research groups in the area of professional learning and training, as well as other key organisations and industrial partners, thus bridging the currently existing gap between research and education at universities and similar organisations and training and continuous education that is provided for and within companies.
see the project website.

WINDS was an EC-funded project in the 5th Framework, Information Society Technologies programme, Flexible University key action. WINDS is divided into two actions:

* The research technology action is going to implement a learning environment integrating an intelligent tutoring system, a computer instruction management system and a set of co-operative supporting tools.

* The development action is going to build a large knowledge base supporting Architecture and Civil Engineering Design Courses and to experiment a comprehensive Virtual School of Architecture and Engineering Design. During the third year of the project, more than 400 students all over Europe will attend the Virtual School. During the next three years the WINDS project will span a total effort of about 150 man-years from 28 partners of 10 European countries.

An overview can be seen here: WINDS.swf