(MMI) Research at the IT- University of Copenhagen Troels Degn Johansson Assistant Professor, Head of Studies The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) Dept of Digital Aesthetics and Communications (DiAC)

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

Teaching at the ITU A graduate school, - i.e., students must have a bachelor degree App 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

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)

Teaching at the ITU -a strong emphasis on project work w/t P r o j e c t M a s t e r T h e s i s coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse coursecourse

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

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)

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

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”

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

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

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

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