Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 685.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:32:20 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: TUD-Telecooperation Research Group searching for Diploma
students..
TUD - FB20 - Telecooperation Research Group (Ubiquitous Teaching)
For the search of Diploma students!!
[The language of the Diploma thesis would be preferred in German, but
English can also be considered.]
The Digital Lecture Hall is a pilot project of the Telecooperation
Research Group at The University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany. Though,
we have been hearing about Virtual Universities from every side of the
Universe, in the near future Lecture Halls will still be playing the
central role at university education. The Pilot project, Digital Lecture
Hall (DLH) pursues this trend with help of Ubiquitous Computing.
What you can do to help realizing our project? We need your help and
support to realise the main components of our lecture halls. In case, you
are a talented programmer in MS Visual C++ or JAVA, then no one would be
going stop you to understand the following themes of DHL. We need your
expertise!
DLH WebPad and PDA Client
With the help of appliances (WebPad, PDA) attendees to the Lecture Hall
can access the current lecture data and participate "online": in the way
of e-board annotation, memory markers or as to pose queued questions. For
the appliances, we need special client software. The platform is Windows
CE. The appliances communicate via an IP-Based Protocol.
RoboCam Cutter
The follow-up of the Lectures in the hall will be covered up with the help
of four video cameras and many microphones. For automation in controlling
video cameras and video processing, we need software to be developed by
you, during this Diploma thesis. The goal of this diploma thesis would be
to develop special controlling Algorithms, which would be performing the
usual manual work, during the teaching sessions.
DLH Web Portal
The DLH Web Portal (supporting: HTML, WAP and VoiceML) will give
possibility to do Synchronous interaction of the teaching done in the
halls and Asynchronous access to the information related to slides,
annotation, video streaming and FAQ of archived lectures. Also
administration tasks should be implemented through the portal.
DLH Room Control
Enables the lecturer full control over the Room and the used appliances
using an innovative UI. This includes work also includes the
implementation of access control components.
DLH Conference
The DLH should also be applied in distance/remote teaching scenarios. The
important components for the video conference and Voice IP should be
developed in this diploma thesis.
For more information, please contact:
Dip.-Ing. Christoph Trompler
Research Assistant
The University of Technology
Telecooperation Research Group
Department of Computer Science
Alexanderstrasse 6
D-64283, Darmstadt
Germany
E-mail: <trompler@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Dip-Inform. M.S. Arun Kumar Tripathi
Research Assistant
The University of Technology
Telecooperation Research Group
Department of Computer Science
Alexanderstrasse 6
D-64283, Darmstadt
Germany
E-mail: <tripathi@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
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