Self-Integration in Mediated-Reality Systems: a Socio-Technical Perspective

in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) (2020, August)

QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx)

Report (2020)

Mixed Reality - Potential and Pitfalls for Representing History

Presentation (2019)

CHARIOT – Towards a Continuous High-level Adaptive Runtime Integration Testbed

in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) (2019)

Scientific Research on Self-Organising Systems - an Overview

Presentation (2018)

6th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems

in ARCS 2018 Workshop Proceedings (2018)

Learning Resource Management through Semantic Annotation Features in Popular Authoring Software

in ICERI 2017 Proceedings (2017, November 16)

The ever-growing set of learning material challenges both students and teachers. While students often need to quickly retrieve resources on a certain topic, teachers have to author high quality documents ... [more ▼]

The ever-growing set of learning material challenges both students and teachers. While students often need to quickly retrieve resources on a certain topic, teachers have to author high quality documents in a limited amount of time, preferably using their favourite tools. In this paper, we propose an open ecosystem of plugins for popular authoring software, enabling teachers to annotate learning resources using domain concepts from ontologies. In addition, a plugin for the Moodle Learning Management System extracts these annotations from the metadata of the provided resources to allow students to get an overview of important concepts and efficiently retrieve corresponding material. [less ▲]

An Extensible and Lightweight Modular Ontology for Programming Education

in Advances in Computing - 12th Colombian Conference, CCC 2017, Cali, Colombia, September 19-22, 2017, Proceedings (2017, August)

Semantic web technologies such as ontologies can foster the reusability of learning material by introducing common sets of concepts for annotation purposes. However, suggesting learning material from an ... [more ▼]

Semantic web technologies such as ontologies can foster the reusability of learning material by introducing common sets of concepts for annotation purposes. However, suggesting learning material from an open, heterogeneous corpus is a nontrivial problem. In this paper, we propose an extensible and lightweight modular ontology for programming education. Its main purpose is to integrate annotated learning material related to programming into an IDE such as Eclipse. Our ontology is based on a modular architecture, which is extensible with respect to different programming languages. Aligning language-specific concepts with user-specific tags allows us to suggest learning resources for code elements in a fine-grained and cross-curricular way. Our concrete implementation establishes relations between learning aspects in Java or C code and annotated resources such as articles on online question-and-answer sites. [less ▲]

High-Precision Gestural Input for Immersive Large-Scale Distributed Virtual Environments

in Proceedings of the 8th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) (2017)

Concurrency-Based and User-Centric Collaboration for Distributed Compound Document Authoring

in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 21st International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) (2017)

The collaborative authoring of complex document structures by geographically distributed users is no longer a special case in today's global economy or people's personal lives. However, integrating single ... [more ▼]

The collaborative authoring of complex document structures by geographically distributed users is no longer a special case in today's global economy or people's personal lives. However, integrating single-user application responsiveness and feature sets with the additional demands and expectations presented towards distributed multi-user environments remains a challenge. Current solutions approaching this challenge almost exclusively rely on traditional, file-based data structures. This often introduces arbitrary workflow restrictions to the user and reduces the potential to benefit from an otherwise inherently concurrent system. Our distributed compound document authoring environment aims at addressing these challenges while providing system-level collaboration support to the user. We attain this through the close integration of a fine-grained data structure with a highly scalable, priority-based concurrency model for command distribution and application. This paper discusses our enhanced data representation and concurrency model together with the evaluation of their prototypical implementation. [less ▲]