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Sunday
20
May 2012
New York Polish Film Festival 2012
The New York Polish Film Festival was founded seven years ago by Festival Director Hanna Kosińska Hartowicz, in association with FILMART Productions. The Festival aims to foster a community that encourages humanitarian and personal themes to be illuminated through the diverse yet unifying medium of artistic expression. Every year the Festival invites Poland's talented directors, actors and young filmmakers to present their work in New York City and to meet and engage in discussions about their respective crafts with the audience. Professor Wierzbicki is one of the people behind the New York Polish Film Festival project.
Monday
26
Mar 2012
EVA Project Management Group at HSMW Established
Three dedicated students of Media Department at the University of Applied Sciences in Germany build-up a new EVA Management Group. Daisy Richter, Florian Pfennig and Elias Hlady (Head of the Group) work on the EVA dissemination strategy and on the EVA branding. The team will organize the upcoming EVA Consortium Meeting in Mittweida end of May and the International Conference in October.
Thursday
8
Mar 2012
Second EVA Project Meeting in Tampere, Finland, 8-9 March 2012
The European Virtual Academy follows the guidelines of building the European Higher Education Area as they are presented in the ECTS Users' Guide.
In autumn 2011 EVA started a series of online courses about visual culture, developed by professors from arts, media and social sciences. The present project is financed by the EU Long Life Learning Programme and will run until end of 2012. The plan is to continue the project in 2013 with more partners.
Thursday
8
Dec 2011
FGIT 2011 - Future Generation Information Technology Conference, Jeju Island, Korea
FgAM presented the paper "Blended Nurture" at the FGIT 2011 conference , within the EL 2011 track.
The Third International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology, FGIT 2011 (ASEA 2011, BSBT 2011, CA 2011, CES3 2011, DRBC 2011, DTA 2011, EL 2011, FGCN 2011, GDC 2011, MulGraB 2011, SecTech 2011, SIP 2011 and UNESST 2011.), was held in Jeju Island, Korea, in December 2011. The focus of the conference was put on the various aspects of advances in information technology.
Korea's subtropical volcanic island Jeju is located 130 kilometres off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula. It is known for its scenic mountains, waterfalls, forests, caves and beaches. In 2002, Unesco declared Jeju a "biosphere reserve", and listed it as a World Natural Heritage Site in 2007. In 2010, it was awarded "geopark" status. 2011 Jeju Island was named one of the World New Seven Wonders of Nature, an initiative led by the Swiss-based non-profit New7wonders Foundation.
Tuesday
18
Oct 2011
ICEL 2012 - 7th International Conference on e-Learning ICEL-2012
The International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL-2012) invites researchers, practitioners and academics to present their research findings, works in progress, case studies and conceptual advances in areas of work where education and technology intersect. The conference brings together varied groups of people with different perspectives, experiences and knowledge in one location. It aims to help practitioners find ways of putting research into practice and researchers to gain an understanding of real-world problems, needs and aspirations.
The 7th edition of this conference is going to be held in one of the world’s most vibrant cosmopolitans. Located in the heart of Asia, Hong Kong is a metropolis with a unique mix of Eastern and Western cultures and has been a prime destination for business and tourism. The favourable location of Hong Kong has increased its desirability of being developed as an education hub of Asia, where quality educational services and diversified learning opportunities are desired by the ever-growing learning community in the present age of globalisation. The conference will bring participants valuable insights in the latest developments of e-Learning which is one of the most efficient learning modes in the fast-changing knowledge world.
Tuesday
4
Oct 2011
EL 2011 - The 2011 Conference on Education and Learning
Prof. Wierzbicki is committee member of the EL2001 Conference in Korea.
The 2011 Conference on Education and Learning will be held on December 8 - 10, 2011 in Jeju Grand Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea.
EL 2011 is one be the most comprehensive Conferences focused on the various aspects of advances in Education and Learning. The Conference provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Education and Learning.
The goal of EL2011 is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Education and Learning.
All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings: LNCS/CCIS series (indexed by EI and others) published by Springer Verlag. Some papers selected will be included in special journals.
Thursday
1
Sep 2011
The eLearning Experiment
According to work conducted at Stanford University the cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once. Clifford Nass, co-author of the study, claims "the study has a disturbing implication in an age when more and more people are simultaneously working on a computer, listening to music, surfing the Web, texting, or talking on the phone.
Access to more information tools is not necessarily making people more efficient in their intellectual chores .... people who chronically multitask believe they're good at it."
Christoph Finke and Patrick Schubert from COCREE | Media Group, the students of Multimedia Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany, who currently write their theses under my supervision, developed an experiment which aims to determine how we learn and how we process information when we multitask.
Please take part in the experiment.
Wednesday
17
Aug 2011
Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2011
The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is a category of the 2011 MindTrek competition. The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU)/Tampere University of Technology, the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Nokia, and the Ambient Media Association (AMEA). The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.
An international jury has already selected the finalists of this year's competition. The nominees have just been announced. Please find the details in the official press release.
Tuesday
31
May 2011
Martin Lorber in Conversation with Robert J. Wierzbicki
The EA Blog for Digital Game Culture is a platform by Electronic Arts established to present the world of computers and video games to the readers. The blog discusses different facets of the digital culture, predominantly the backgrounds, developments and future trends of video gaming. Martin Lorber is the host of the EA Blog.
Tuesday
17
May 2011
Freie Presse Reports on a Brand New Study Course in "Media Information Technology and Interactive Entertainment" at HSMW
ICEL 2011, The International Conference on e-Learning
The International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL) is of interest to academics and workers in the growing field. ICEL follows on from the well established ECEL but is convened outside of Europe. Like ECEL it invites researchers to present current research findings and business experiences from the wide community which is now involved in knowledge management and intellectual capital and organisational learning. It offers an opportunity for discussion and deliberation and networking.
Prof. Wierzbicki is Conference Commitee Member for ICEL 2011.
Friday
25
Mar 2011
Innovation Stuntmen Reports on Gamecast
Rendering by Erkan Kosar , Gamecast Team.
Innovation Stuntmen is an online platform showcasing innovative projects from around the world. Robert J. Wierzbicki gave an interview to Innovation Stuntmen on the Gamecast project and on the future of convergent approches to virtual entertainment. Read the Interview at http://www.innovationstuntmen.com/?p=2126
Monday
21
Feb 2011
"Adaptive Media Worlds"
A New Research Project by FgAM
Despite all the progress being made in the field of media and IT, even in interactive media such as video games the user experience is still often a static one. The media format does not recognise the recipient and cannot therefore be adapted to him. In simple terms a video game doesn’t know whether the son in the family wants to play his favourite game taking particularly high risks, or whether it’s his little sister who is sitting in front of the computer screen, despairing because the game is too difficult for her.
The research project "Adaptive Media Worlds" (AdaM), running until the end of 2011 and sponsored by the Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts, aims to create a demo of a system which enables media to individually adapt to the needs, mood and social profile of the different users whilst they are using it. By integrating emotion recognition in which the emotions and behaviour of the recipient are recognised and evaluated and the media elements varied, the receptive experience should be enhanced. Elements which can be automatically adapted include amongst others: topic focuses, plots in films and serials, offers in online shops, advertising, and game situations and difficulty levels in video games. Players who like to solve puzzles will then actually get more puzzles to solve in the game. The research project shall illustrate how adaptive systems in video games, online platforms and other internet-based media applications can be integrated and thereby pave the way for a future in which it is no longer the user that has to adapt to the medium, but instead the medium which will adapt itself to the needs of the user.
The project is a follow-up of the project GAMECAST which was finalized in December 2010. The heads of the projects are Prof. Robert J. Wierzbicki (Faculty of Media) and Prof. Wilfried Schubert (Faculty of Informatics). The chief producer of the AdaM system is Thomas Schmieder, BA (Faculty of Media).
Monday
14
Feb 2011
Teaching in Milano, Italy
Prof. Wierzbicki was a visiting professor at the University of Bicocca in Milano. He was lecturing on "Cross-Media for Tourism" in the master track "Comunicazione per il turismo" of Prof. Cesare Massarenti. The teaching was part of the ERASMUS programme.
An agreement between the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida and the the University of Bicocca in Milano was signed in February which includes student exchange: 2 undergraduated and 2 graduated students from each side for one semester per academic year.
Proc. FGIT 2011 - Future Generation Information Technology Conference, Jeju Island, Korea
New Course of Study: "Media Information Technology and Interactive Entertainment"
