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SUMMARY:Cross-Media Information Systems - Quo Vadis?
DTSTART:20121102T101500
DTEND:20121102T111500
DTSTAMP:20260510T235022Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Beat Signer is Professor of Computer Science and co-director o
 f the Web and Information Systems Engineering laboratory at the Vrije Univ
 ersiteit Brussel in Belgium. He studied Computer Science in his home count
 ry of Switzerland and received his MSc and PhD from ETH Zurich. His main a
 rea of research are cross-media information spaces and architectures to br
 ide the physical-digital divide\, interactive paper solutions as well as m
 ultimodal and multi-touch interaction frameworks. His research interests f
 urther include human-computer interaction\, personal information managemen
 t\, document engineering as well as ubiquitous and tangible computing. Ove
 r the last decade\, Beat Signer has been involved in several research proj
 ects\, such as the European Paper++ and PaperWorks projects\, and investig
 ated the integration of paper and digital information spaces. As part of h
 is PhD thesis on 'Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Med
 ia Information Spaces'\, he developed the Resource-Selector-Link (RSL) hyp
 ermedia metamodel. More recently\, his research group applies the RSL meta
 model to investigate new forms of innovative fluid document formats and mu
 ltimodal interfaces\, associative file systems as well as personal cross-m
 edia 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 form
 s of dynamic and non-linear presentations. For further information about B
 eat Signer's research activities\, please have a look at his research webs
 ite (www.beatsigner.com).\nOver the last decade\, we have seen a significa
 nt increase in the number of types of digital media that we deal with as p
 art of our daily life. While the World Wide Web was originally designed fo
 r organising HTML documents with some embedded media such as images or sou
 nds\, the underlying hypermedia model shows some shortcomings when trying 
 to integrate rich media types and bridge the gap between physical and digi
 tal information as envisioned by the Internet of Things. In the past\, we 
 have developed the general Resource-Selector-Link (RSL) hypermedia metamod
 el and successfully applied it in the context of a number of interactive p
 aper projects and applications in order to enable a seamless transition be
 tween paper and digital information spaces.\n\nIn this talk\, I will intro
 duce 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 oth
 er domains and illustrate these activities by presenting a number of ongoi
 ng projects. This includes an associative file system\, innovative fluid c
 ross-media documents formats\, personal cross-media information management
  as well as MindXpres\, an extensible content-driven cross-media presentat
 ion tool enabling completely new forms of dynamic and non-linear presentat
 ions. After discussing some limitations of existing digital document forma
 ts and environments - often resulting from the digital simulation of the p
 hysical workspace instead of aiming for a symbiosis between the affordance
 s of physical and digital artefacts - future directions for extensible and
  scalable open cross-media information spaces will be outlined.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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