(MMI) Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen Troels Degn Johansson

1. (MMI) Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen Troels Degn Johansson Assistant Professor, Head of Studies tdj@it-c.dk The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) Dept of Digital Aesthetics and Communications (DiAC)

2. The IT-University of Copenhagen • Established in 1999 as an independent faculty of the CBS, soon to be Denmark’s 12th university • Goals (state commision): - ”To produce more and different IT-candidates at a masters level” - ”To conduct research in IT at a high international level” - ”To participate in the general public debate on the use and potentials of IT” • Staff (app., by the end of 2002): - 27 faculty members - app. 25 PhD student - app. 50 external lecturers

3. Teaching at the ITU • A graduate school, • - i.e., students must have a bachelor degree • App. 1500 students enrolled (by Fall, 2002) - More than 1200 candidate & master students - Diploma students - Flexible education students • Radically interdisciplinary: More than 150 different bachelor degrees represented

4. Teaching at the ITU • Four study tracks offered by ITU: - Design, Communication and Media (DKM) - Internet technology (InT) • - Multimedia technology (MMT) - Software development (SWU) • Two outsourced study tracks: • - e-Business (Copenhagen Business School) • - Cross-disciplinary IT (Roskilde University)

5. Teaching at the ITU • a strong emphasis on project work course course course course course course course course course 1 12 16 w/t 1 2 3 4 M a s t e r T h e s i s P r o j e c t P r o j e c t P r o j e c t

6. Research • Departments: • Theoretical computer science (”theory”) • Innovation (DoI/”innovation”) • Design and Use of IT (DUIT) • Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DiAC) • - PhD study programme • - Collaboration with industry (co-funded) • - Spin-off activities

7. Research on Multi-Modal-Interaction at the ITU Department:Relevant activities: ”theory”: - ”innovation”: Eye-Talk (Paulin Hansen) DUIT: Applied HCI, CSCW DiAC: HCI: workload (Helms Jørgensen)

8. Dept. of Design and Use of IT • Mission: • to contribute to a better understanding the relationship between IT, its users, and their work practice, and to understand and improve the involved design and development processes. • Staff (by the beginning of 2002): • • Six senior people • • Two Ph.D. students

9. Dept. of Design and Use of IT • Research in: • • Information Systems • • CSCW • • Applied HCI • • Software development • • Requirement specification • Current projects: • ”Design and use of Interactive Web Applications”, • ”IT support for self-governing working groups”, • ”Quality Software Design at Internet Speed”

10. Gaze Talk • Head- and eye-tracking by standard digital cameras • Hands-free communication • Type-to-talk • Browser • E-mail • Adaptive word prediction • Freeware and Open Source • Danish, English and Japanese versions by 2003 • (Team organised by John Paulin Hansen)

11. Gaze Talk – User Needs • Fast • Robust • Daily expressions • Mobile • Changes with progress of diseases • Affordable

12. TDJ – Personal Profile • Assistant Professor (DiAC) • Head of studies (DKM) • Member of the ITU game studies centre • Background: Film- & media studies, semiotics • Ph.D.: Pictorial representation in the Visualization of Landscape/Urban space in web-based CMC • Research in aesthetic and communicative aspects of pictorial computer-media and virtual/real spaces • Research interest in multimodal interaction in computer games

13. Further Information • IT University of Copenhagen • URL: http://www.it-c.dk/ • Troels Degn Johansson: • URL: http://www.it-c.dk/people/tdj • E-mail: tdj@it-c.dk

14. Further Information • IT University of Copenhagen • URL: http://www.it-c.dk/ • Troels Degn Johansson: • URL: http://www.it-c.dk/people/tdj • E-mail: tdj@it-c.dk