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Date: 30th September 2009
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: BMU, Level 3, FCSIT Building, UNIMAS
Distinguished Professor: Dr Thomas Ottmann
Affiliation: Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Freiburg, Germany
Abstract: Over the last decade the Computer Science Department of the University of Freiburg has gained a lot of experience with the production and use of Electures produced from live recordings. We review the origin of the tools used for presentation recording and emphasise the consequences of the object-based approach in contrast to screen grabbing. By extensive user studies and log file analyses we revealed the preferences of users with respect to different formats of Electures, navigational patterns, and ways of utilization. Though there are currently a number of different options for recording live presentations available, there are still a number of core features not solved satisfactorily. Therefore, we finally describe new developments possibly leading to better systems.
About the speaker: Thomas Ottmann is a Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Freiburg, Germany, Currently Head of the Technical Committee (Informatics/Computer Science), Accreditation Agency ASIIN. His research interests are Algorithms and Data Structures, in particular Computational Geometry, Multimedia Systems, in particular eLearning, presentation recording. Author and Co-author of four books, editor of seven books, author and co-author of more than 180 papers in Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings. Work on numerous projects funded by the DFG (German National Science Foundation), The Federal Ministry of Science and Education (BMBF), European Union, and Industry. Prof. Thomas has wide international experience, as a visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, Guest Scientist, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Guest Professor, Dartmouth College, USA, Gledden Senior Scientist, University of Western Australia.
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