Cross-Media Information Systems - Quo Vadis?
Event details
| Date | 02.11.2012 |
| Hour | 10:15 › 11:15 |
| Speaker | Beat Signer is Professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Web and Information Systems Engineering laboratory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. He studied Computer Science in his home country of Switzerland and received his MSc and PhD from ETH Zurich. His main area of research are cross-media information spaces and architectures to bride the physical-digital divide, interactive paper solutions as well as multimodal and multi-touch interaction frameworks. His research interests further include human-computer interaction, personal information management, document engineering as well as ubiquitous and tangible computing. Over the last decade, Beat Signer has been involved in several research projects, such as the European Paper++ and PaperWorks projects, and investigated the integration of paper and digital information spaces. As part of his PhD thesis on 'Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces', he developed the Resource-Selector-Link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel. More recently, his research group applies the RSL metamodel to investigate new forms of innovative fluid document formats and multimodal interfaces, associative file systems as well as personal cross-media information systems. Furthermore, together with his research team he questions existing slideware tools and develops MindXpres, an extensible content-driven cross-media presentation tool enabling completely new forms of dynamic and non-linear presentations. For further information about Beat Signer's research activities, please have a look at his research website (www.beatsigner.com). |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Over the last decade, we have seen a significant increase in the number of types of digital media that we deal with as part of our daily life. While the World Wide Web was originally designed for organising HTML documents with some embedded media such as images or sounds, the underlying hypermedia model shows some shortcomings when trying to integrate rich media types and bridge the gap between physical and digital information as envisioned by the Internet of Things. In the past, we have developed the general Resource-Selector-Link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel and successfully applied it in the context of a number of interactive paper projects and applications in order to enable a seamless transition between paper and digital information spaces.
In this talk, I will introduce the RSL metamodel for cross-media linking and outline how some of its core features including bidirectional links, layering or user management have been applied in the context of paper-digital information integration. I will outline our current research on applying the RSL metamodel to other domains and illustrate these activities by presenting a number of ongoing projects. This includes an associative file system, innovative fluid cross-media documents formats, personal cross-media information management as well as MindXpres, an extensible content-driven cross-media presentation tool enabling completely new forms of dynamic and non-linear presentations. After discussing some limitations of existing digital document formats and environments - often resulting from the digital simulation of the physical workspace instead of aiming for a symbiosis between the affordances of physical and digital artefacts - future directions for extensible and scalable open cross-media information spaces will be outlined.
In this talk, I will introduce the RSL metamodel for cross-media linking and outline how some of its core features including bidirectional links, layering or user management have been applied in the context of paper-digital information integration. I will outline our current research on applying the RSL metamodel to other domains and illustrate these activities by presenting a number of ongoing projects. This includes an associative file system, innovative fluid cross-media documents formats, personal cross-media information management as well as MindXpres, an extensible content-driven cross-media presentation tool enabling completely new forms of dynamic and non-linear presentations. After discussing some limitations of existing digital document formats and environments - often resulting from the digital simulation of the physical workspace instead of aiming for a symbiosis between the affordances of physical and digital artefacts - future directions for extensible and scalable open cross-media information spaces will be outlined.
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