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03.05.2013
Prof. Mittelberg is Keynote speaker at "Multimodal Communication: Language, Performance and Digital Media" Lisbon
Prof. Irene Mittelberg was invited to give a keynote talk at the "Multimodal Communication" conference at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas at University of Lisbon (May 2nd and 3rd 2013). Alongside Charles Forceville and other distinguished ...
Natural Media | 25.04.2013
Natural Media: Dr. Grandhi presents work on User Perceptions of Gestural Interaction at CHI 2013, Paris
Dr. Sukeshini Grandhi, who has been working with the Natural Media & Engineering group until September last year, will be presenting her latest work with the group on "How We Gesture Towards Machines: An Exploratory Study of User Perceptions of Gestural Interaction" at the ACM Conference ...
18.04.2013
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Prof. Mittelberg talks at Faculty for Design, FH Aachen
Prof. Irene Mittelberg was invited to talk at "Design Horizont No 21", a lecture series at the faculty of Design, FH Aachen. Her talk "Begriffsstudien. Manuelle Gesten als natürliches Artikulationsmedium für Konzepte, Objekte und Interaktionen" will cover manual gestures as genuin means of design for the ...
26.03.2013
LEONARDO modul "Natural Media of Human Communication" in summer term 2013
We are pleased to announce this semester's LEONARDO modul as a joint initiative of the HumTec project Natural Media/NeuroPeirce and the newly established RWTH Aachen Center for Sign Language and Gesture (SignGes). "Natural Media of Human Communication" explores connections among the human mind, language, and other ...
24.01.2013
NeuroPeirce: Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquiums hosts second talk tomorrow (January 25th)
Prof. Dr. med. Ferdinand Binkofski: "Apraxia: A misunderstood disturbance of higher neural functions"
Friday, January 25th 2013, 3 pm, R303, HumTec
Prof. Binkofski is head of the section Klinische Kognitionsforschung (department of neurology) at University Hospital Aachen. His research focuses on ...
08.01.2013
NeuroPeirce: Prof. Mittelberg at the Linguistics Department of UC Berkeley
Prof. Mittelberg was invited to talk at the workshop 'The Pragmatics of Gesture' held at University of California at Berkeley(January 11 - 13). Her talk, entitled "Crossmodal pragmatic inferencing and 3D-insights into the functional structure of gesture spaces", will cover recent research activities at NeuroPeirce.
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07.12.2012
NeuroPeirce: Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium starts on December 10th
"Framing Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors"
This semester´s Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium will start with a talk by Christian von Sikorski (Institute of Media and Communication Research, German Sport University Cologne). In his talk "Framing Effects on Attitudes and Behaviors" he will address the effects of news ...
U-Turn | 03.12.2012
U-Turn: IDEA League Doctoral School on Ageing and Sustainability in Tokyo
Vom 11.-17. November 2012 fand in Tokyo (Japan) das zweite Modul der interdisziplinären Doctoral School on Ageing and Sustainability statt. Shirley Beul, Philipp Brauner, Anne Kathrin Schaar und U-Turn Mitarbeiter Kai Kasugai reisten nach Tokyo und setzten sich in dem Doktoratkolleg eine Woche ...
Natural Media | 08.11.2012
NeuroPeirce: Prof. Mittelberg talks at SFB 673 in Bielefeld
On Monday, November 12th, Prof. Irene Mittelberg will attend the Monday Colloquium of Sonderforschungsbereichs 673 at Bielefeld University and talk about "Embodied image schemata and metonymy as structuring principles in gesture". Invited by Prof. Ipke Wachsmuth, she will present in her talk an approach to gesture that centers on how ...
U-Turn | 29.10.2012
U-Turn: Project Introduction at URBANTEC 2012 in Cologne
With a talk and a poster Dr. Katrin Arning and Isabell Maras, M.Sc. presented the concept and research objectives at URBANTEC 2012. The vast interest exhibited by the international expert audience confirmed the relevance of the interdisciplinary research project on future urban quarters which is funded by the excellence ...
Natural Media | 19.09.2012
Kick-off of European Research Framework "CLARIN" Work Group with Natural Media Contribution
On September 21st, University Bielefeld will host the first general assembly of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) working group "Speech and other Modalities" - coordinated by Prof. Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld). The meeting marks the start of a ...
Natural Media | 29.07.2012
Prof. Eve Sweetser visits Natural Media
We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Eve Sweetser of UC Berkeley, California, will be spending a week in Aachen visiting Natural Media & Engineering.
Prof. Sweetser is an expert in the field of Gesture Studies and her primary research interests include historical linguistics, semantics and meaning changes, the semantics of grammatical ...
Natural Media | 19.07.2012
Natural Media: Participation at ISGS5 2012
The entire Natural Media group will present at the 5th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), to be held at the University of Lund, Sweden (July 23th-27th)
The papers to be presented by the team members cover diverse fields such as cognitive semiotics, HCI, cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology:
...EET | 02.07.2012
eet: Research programme presented by CEF.NRW
Der Cluster EnergieForschung.NRW präsentiert in der Reihe "CEF.NRW stellt vor" beispielhafte Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen. Aktuell wird eet auf der Webseite des CEF.NRW vorgestellt.
Einen Link finden Sie hier.
Natural Media | 13.06.2012
Natural Media welcomes UROP student
The Natural Media & Engineering Group is very pleased to welcome Brandon Montell as this summer´s UROP student. Brandon studies Computer Science and Neuroscience at Brown University and will be exploring how much space people use to gesture with their hands, and how that changes depending on the context of the gesture during his stay in Aachen. ...
Natural Media | 10.06.2012
Natural Media: Prof. Mittelberg at workshop "Remembering in Context" at ZiF Bielefeld
Prof. Irene Mittelberg was invited to speak about "At Human Scale: Gestural Memories of Architectural Space" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) of Bielefeld University. Her talk is embedded into the workshop "Remembering in Context", whose aim is to integrate our understanding of the ...
eHealth | 22.05.2012
eHealth: new addition to the eHealth team
On May 2nd Vincent Vito Wilkowski was born and the whole eHealth team is happy for the young parents.
"We are proud parents of a 53cm tall and weighing in at 3170g boy" says the mother Wiktoria Wilkowska. EHealth wishes the little family a lot of joy and not too many sleepless nights!
Natural Media | 17.05.2012
Natural Media at CSDL Vancouver
Natural Media & Engineering took part in the "Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference" that this year held a focus on "Language and the Creative Mind": Prof. Irene Mittelberg presented "Balancing Acts: Felt qualities of meaning in descriptive gestures and artworks by Paul Klee" and explored the role of embodied conceptual structures as driving ...
EET | 11.05.2012
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand invited to "Leopoldina-Symposium"
Vom 15. bis zum 16. Juni wird in Bonn das Leopoldina-Symposium zu dem Thema "Risiko: Erkundigungen an den Grenzen des Wissens" stattfinden. Prof. Hillerbrand ist eingeladen, dort einen Vortrag zu halten. Einen Link finden Sie hier.
EET | 10.05.2012
eet: Contribution to latest publication of "Reichersberger Pfingstgespräche"
Im Band "Reichersberger Pfingstgespräche 2007 - 2011. Auf den Menschen kommt es an", der im Trauner Verlag erscheinen wird, ist ein Beitrag von Prof. Hillerbrand enthalten. Einen Link zur Verlags-Seite finden Sie hier.
Natural Media | 18.04.2012
Natural Media: Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
From April 24th to 27th one of three of this year´s network meetings of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will take place at RWTH Aachen University. The meeting aims at informing about German university institutions and the university system, and wants to offer an opportunity to meet colleagues and ...
EET | 18.04.2012
Prof. Hillerbrand invited to Forschungszentrum Jülich
Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012, um 10:00 Uhr hält Prof. Hillerbrand auf Einladung des Fachbereichs Nukleare Entsorgung einen Vortrag am Forschungszentrum Jülich. Der Titel lautet: Risiken & Unsicherheiten in der Energieversorgung. Eine Herausforderung für Ethik & Politik. Einen Link finden sie hier.
Natural Media | 13.04.2012
Leonardo Modul "Natural Media of Human Communication" geht in die dritte Runde
Natural Media is pleased to announce this semester´s third round of the Leonardo Module "Natural Media of Human Communication" that is held by Prof. Irene Mittelberg and Dr. Lynn Huestegge. The topics covered this time will range from semiotics, linguistics, psychology to human-computer-interaction and ...
Natural Media | 12.04.2012
Natural Media: Prof. Leonard Talmy visiting
The renowned Cognitive Linguist and pioneer of Cognitive Semantics, Leonard Talmy visits Natural Media. The Professor Emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University at Buffalo in New York will give a talk on “Gestures as cues to a target” on May 23rd. Details follow shortly.
Natural Media | 05.04.2012
Symposium Mimicry as Communication
On April 19, Prof. Mittelberg will give the first talk at the the Symposium Mimicry as Communication about "Mimicry and Gesture: Cognitive-Semiotic Perspectives on Multimodal Communication". The Symposium, held as a co-organization of the University of Bonn and the Forum Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung frames mimicry as a ...
EET | 04.04.2012
Prof. Hillerbrand interviewed by Academia.Net
Auf der Webseite von Academia.Net ist ein aktuelles Interview mit Prof. Hillerbrand veröffentlicht. Academia.Net ist ein von der Robert Bosch Stiftung und Spektrum der Wissenschaft ins Leben gerufenes Portal für exzellente Wissenschaftlerinnen. Einen Link finden Sie hier.
Natural Media | 02.04.2012
Natural Media: Visiting scientist Dr. Pamela Perniss
The Natural Media & Engineering Group is very pleased to welcome Dr. Pamela Perniss from MPI Nijmegen and University College London as visiting scientist until April 30. She is staying in Aachen following an invitation by Prof. Klaus Willmes, Prof. Ludwig Jäger, Prof. Iring Koch and Prof. Irene Mittelberg.
Her research focuses on the ...
EET | 19.03.2012
Prof. Hillerbrand invited by the Rotary Club Düren in occasion of the German energy transition
Am 21.03. hält Prof. Hillerbrand im Forschungszentrum Jülich einen öffentlichen Vortrag zu "Risiken und Unsicherheiten in der Energieversorgung. Eine Herausforderung für Ethik und Politik". Die Veranstaltung ist organisiert vom Rotary Club Düren.Forschungszentrum ...
Natural Media | 12.03.2012
Prof. Irene Mittelberg was invited to give a seminar with the topic "Peirce, Jakobson, and the Cognitive Semiotics of Multimodal Communication" at the University of São Paulo. She will spend 10 days at the Departamento de Letras Modernas where she will work together with Prof. Leland McCleary, who had been a guest researcher at Natural Media & Engineering group during the winter term ...
eHealth | 08.03.2012
eHealth: "Einfach UmWeltspitze!" - Regionalsieger des diesjährigen Schülerwettbewerbs in Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik der Siemens Stiftung stehen fest
Auch dieses Jahr fand an der RWTH Aachen der regionale Vorentscheid des Schülerwettbewerbs der Siemens Stiftung statt. Knapp 400 SchülerInnen haben sich beworben, 15 Teams haben sich für die Vorentscheide ...
EET | 05.03.2012
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand invited to the annual meeting of IÖW and VÖW
Prof. Hillerbrand ist eingeladen, auf der Tagung "Was bewegt? – Von sozial-ökologischen Experimenten in den Alltag" einen öffentlichen Vortrag zu halten und an einer Podiumsdiskussion teilzunehmen. Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert durch das Institut und die Vereinigung für ökologische ...
eHealth | 13.01.2012
eHealth: Newspaper presents eHealth
The newspaper Aachener Nachrichten published an article entitled "HumTec: Nachdenken über Technik und Mensch" where HumTec and its projects are presented. The eHealth project is subject as well moreover Martina Ziefle, Kai Kasugai, Christian Möllering and the Future Care Lab posed for the picture in the article.
For more information and pictures ...
EET | 12.01.2012
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand gives a talk at ESG
Am 25. Januar hält Prof. Hillerbrand einen Vortrag mit dem Titel"Risiken & Unsicherheiten in der Energieversorgung. Eine Herausforderung für Ethik & Politik" bei der Evangelischen Studierendengemeinde in Aachen. Einen Link zur Webseite der ESG finden Sie hier.
Natural Media | 04.01.2012
Film about Natural Media
The press office of RWTH Aachen University released a film about the research programme Natural Media & Engineering.
The film can also be found on the homepage of the press office as well as in the official RWTH Aachen University Youtube channel.
Natural Media | 04.01.2012
Natural Media at EPS Workshop London
On January 7th and 8th Prof. Leland McCleary and Dr. Simon Harrison will take part in the EPS Workshop at University College London. It addresses the bias of the understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language learning and processing that is highly influenced by the fact that empirical research and theoretical development has ...
EET | 02.01.2012
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand at the 42th IWASA
Prof. Hillerbrand hält am 12.01. einen Vortrag beim 42. Internationalen Wasserbau-Symposium Aachen. Die Veranstaltung findet vom 12. bis 13. Januar im Technologiezentrum Aachen statt. Einen Link finden Sie hier.
EET | 02.01.2012
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand will give a talk at the University of Paderborn
Im Rahmen des Kolloquiums zur Philosophie spricht Prof. Hillerbrand am 19.01. an der Universität Paderborn zu Risiken und Unsicherheiten in der Energieversorgung. Einen Link zur Veranstaltung finden Sie hier.
Natural Media | 22.12.2011
Natural Media: Artist-in-Residence Anette Rose
The Natural Media & Engineering Group is very pleased to welcome Anette Rose as artist-in-residence for 2 months.Her stay in Aachen is realized as a co-operation between Natural Media & Engineering and Lehrstuhl für Bildnerische Gestaltung (BIG, Faculty of Architecture) funded by the cluster of excellence "Integrative Production ...
Natural Media | 15.12.2011
Natural Media at the BASF International R&D Community Day 2011
Dr. Simon Harrison was invited to animate a World Café event at the BASF International R & D Community Day 2011 in Mannheim on Nov 18th 2011. His performance entitled 'Innovative communication in industry' served to highlight the difficult communication conditions that characterise industrial environments and invite ...
Natural Media | 14.12.2011
Natural Media at Lund Humanities Lab
Prof. Irene Mittelberg, Dr. Simon Harrison and Marlon Meuters were invited to attend the workshop "Seeing and Hearing Language - Mocap data in gesture and sign language research" at Lund Humanities Lab on the 25th - 26th of November 2011. Issues discussed there included the embedding of Motion-Capture Data into theoretical frameworks as ...
Natural Media | 14.12.2011
Natural Media now part of CLARIN network
The Natural Media & Engineering group is now a part of the German section of the CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology) network that aims to provide linguistic data, tools and services in an integrated, interoperable and scalable infrastructure for the social sciences and humanitiesThe working group "Speech and other Modalities" - ...
Natural Media | 13.12.2011
NM: Dr. Harrisons wins second Aachen Science Slam
Dr. Simon Harrison participated in the second Aachen Science Slam organised by LUUPS (Wednesday December 13 2011). His performance entitled 'Establishing the RWTH Gesture Code' was voted first place by the audience attending the event, taking place at the Jakobshoff nightclub.
eHealth | 12.12.2011
eHealth: Best Presentation Award at USAB 2011
Shirley Beul, M.A. was awarded with the Best Presentation Award at the 7th conference of the Austrian Computer Society Workgroup: Human-Computer Interaction organized by the Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation Medical University of Graz.
The title of her presentation was 'Remote Medical Encounter. ...
eHealth | 12.12.2011
eHealth: Best Paper Award at USAB 2011
Firat Alagöz, Martina Ziefle, Wiktoria Wilkowska and André Calero Valdez were awarded with the Best Paper Award 2011 for their interdisciplinary paper: 'Openness to Accept Medical Technology - A Cultural View'.
The 7th conference of the Austrian Computer Society Workgroup: Human-Computer Interaction, organized by the Institute for Medical ...
eHealth | 12.12.2011
eHealth: USAB 2011 in Graz
On the 25th-26th November 2011 the 7th Conference of the Austrian Computer Society Workgroup: Human Computer Interaction took place at the Medical University of Graz. The eHealth team was successfully represented by Martina Ziefle, Shirley Beul, Anne Kathrin Schaar, Firat Alagöz, Simon Himmel and Oliver Sack.
Anne Kathrin Schaar presented her ...
EET | 01.12.2011
eet: Contribution to publication of Federal Agency for Civic Education
In der aktuellsten Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ), "Ende des Atomzeitalters?", der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung ist ein Beitrag der Forschungsgruppe eet zu Risikoabschätzungen und dem guten Leben. Einen Link zur Zeitschrift finden Sie hier.
eHealth | 22.11.2011
eHealth: New Image movie gives an insight into the Future Care Lab
The eHealth Team produced a new Image movie on the occasion of the World Usability Day 2011 and the opening of the new Human Computer Interaction Center. The new movie gives a vivid insight into the work of the Team and the Future Care Lab.
Directed by: Kai Kasugai, Felix Heidrich
Music & narration: André Calero ...
EET | 16.11.2011
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand at "Forum des Fortschritts - CleanTech NRW"
Das Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen lädt zum Forum des Fortschritts - CleanTech NRW am 12. Dezember 2011 in die Zinkfabrik Altenberg in Oberhausen ein. Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung wird Frau Prof. Hillerbrand einen Vortrag zum Thema "Ganzheitliche ...
eHealth | 15.11.2011
eHealth: Human-Computer-Interaction Center opening on World Usability Day 2011
Last thursday, November 10th 2011, the opening of the Human-Computer-Interaction Center (HCIC) took place at RWTH Aachen University. The occasion was this year's World Usability Day hosted by Prof. Jan Borchers' chair of Media Computing at RWTH Aachen in cooperation with P3 Communications GmbH.
The ...
Natural Media | 05.11.2011
Natural Media participates in RWTH Wissenschaftsnacht 2011
Friday, Nov. 11, 22:00. Kármán-Auditorium, Eilfschornsteinstraße, Hörsaal Fo 4.Prof. Mittelberg will give a talk at this year's RWTH Wissenschaftsnacht: "Der Sprache oft ein Stück voraus: Formen und Funktionen von Gesten." See German Version of this page for more details.
Natural Media | 27.10.2011
Prof. Mittelberg elected advisory board member of the German Association of Semiotics
On the 14th of October, Prof. Irene Mittelberg was elected advisory board member of the German Association of Semiotics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik, DGS). She will be directing the section “Body Semiotics” (“Körpersemiotik”).For more information about the activities of ...
Natural Media | 20.10.2011
Dr. Vito Evola received stipend as FIIRD Fellow by the Levant Foundation, Geneva
The Scientific Committee of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (FIIRD) announced Vito Evola as one of four academic fellows for the upcoming year. This prestigious position will focus on deepening the understanding among persons of different religions and fostering leadership to respond to ...
EET | 18.10.2011
eet at RWTH-Wissenschaftsnacht
Am 11.11. hält Professor Hillerbrand (HumTec, eet) zusammen mit Professor Schneider (Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Physische Geographie und Klimatologie) im Rahmen der RWTH-Wissenschaftsnacht einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Perspektivenwechsel: Die Global Challenges Klimawandel und Energiewende aus integraler Sicht". Die Veranstaltung findet im Hörsaal Fo4 (im ...
eHealth | 13.10.2011
eHealth: Excellent Paper Award to Dr. Carsten Carsten Röcker
Dr. Dr. Carsten Röcker was awarded on the International Conference on Information and Digital Engineering (ICIDE 2011), September 2011 in Singapore, with one of three Excellent Paper Awards, based on his high quality speech and his outstnanding paper with the title:
Designing Ambient Assisted Living Applications: An Overview ...
EET | 06.10.2011
Contributions from eet at "Nacht der offenen Kirchen"
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober findet in Aachen in der Annakirche - im Rahmen der Nacht der offenen Kirchen - eine Veranstaltung zu Fragen von Technik und Ethik statt. Das Motto des Abends lautet "Vom Turmbau und anderen Katastrophen...". Verschiedene Wissenschaftler (u.a. von FH und RWTH Aachen) werden dort Vorträge halten.Ein Programm finden ...
Natural Media | 20.09.2011
Prof. Mittelberg as senior fellow at TOPOI in Berlin
Prof. Irene Mittelberg is invited as senior fellow at TOPOI Excellence Cluster: "The Conception of spaces in language" , Humboldt University of Berlin from September 20 - October 16, 2011.
Natural Media | 08.09.2011
Natural Media welcomes visiting professor from Brazil
The Natural Media team is pleased to welcome Prof. Leland McCleary who will be joining HumTec for the fall semester. Prof. McCleary is orginally from the U.S. and comes to us from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. He is a distinguished scholar who has done extensive research in the areas of cognitive and ...
Natural Media | 02.09.2011
Natural Media at GESPIN Conference Gesture and Speech in Interaction
The Natural Media Team will present research at the GESPIN Conference 'Gesture and Speech in Interaction' at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld.
5.-7. Sept. 2011http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/
Program:http://gespin.uni-bielefeld.de/?q=node/12
This multidisciplinary ...
EET | 27.08.2011
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand at meeting on "Energy supply for 2050"
Am 27. Oktober spricht Frau Prof. Hillerbrand zu Risiken und Unsicherheiten in der Energieversorgung in der Paulus-Akademie in Zürich.
Hier finden Sie einen Flyer.
EET | 27.08.2011
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand at pupils´ symposium on "Energy, Climate, Responsibility"
Vom 13. bis 15. Oktober findet im Science College Overbach, in Jülich, ein Symposium für SchülerInnen der Jahrgangsstufen 10 bis 13 statt. Titel der Veranstaltung ist "Energie, Klima, Verantwortung". Frau Prof. Hillerbrand spricht in diesem Rahmen am 13.10. zu Risiken und Unsicherheiten in der ...
Natural Media | 18.08.2011
Leonardo Science Slam Winner
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 1st LEONARDO - Natural Media SCIENCE SLAM.
1st place: Christian Dickel & Frank Scholtka "The Costs of Babylon"
2nd place: Wei Li & Nikhil Vittal Shetty "The Power of Gestures"
Congratulations on a great performance!!
Please find more about Leonardo and the modul NATURAL MEDIA OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION.
...
EET | 13.07.2011
EET: Prof. Hillerbrand gives a talk at Kolloquium Informatik
On Wednesday 13th July, Prof. Hillerbrand will give a talk within the lecture series of the department of computer science at RWTH University (Kolloquium Informatik). The topic is "Simulierte Wissenschaft oder Erkenntniswerkzeug? Ein philosophischer Blick auf Computersimulationen".
Link.
EET | 26.06.2011
EET: Prof. Hillerbrand gives a talk at KIT
Prof. Hillerbrand gives a talk at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) on "Epistemische Unsicherheiten in der Klimamodellierung. Grenzen desVorsorgeprinzips", June 28th, 7 p.m.
Natural Media | 20.06.2011
Prof. Mittelberg elected to the RaAM Executive Committee
Prof. Irene Mittelberg was elected to the Executive Committee of the Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) International Association, which advances the interdisciplinary study of figurative language especially in real-world contexts.
Natural Media | 14.06.2011
Prof. Irene Mittelberg and Dr. Simon Harrison at the third conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC III)
Prof. Irene Mittelberg and Dr. Simon Harrison will chair a theme session on gesture space at this year's international conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (http://salc3.ku.dk/).
Taking place on Tuesday June ...
EET | 12.06.2011
EET: Prof. Hillerbrand at Reichersberger Pfingstgespräche
Prof. Hillerbrand will give a talk at Reichersberger Pfingsgespräche. The topic of this meeting is "Towards a new age of energy production". It takes place in Reichersberg, Austria, on June 13/14. There are other prominent speakers like Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer (former environment minister).
Info.
Natural Media | 19.05.2011
Prof. Mittelberg on Metaphorik Worshop.
Prof. Mittelberg was invited to give a guest presentation entitled "Metonymic moments: Cognitive-semiotic prerequisites for the interpretation of metaphoric gestures"
at the workshop Taking Stock of figurative language and thought: On the past, present and future of applied research on metaphor , which took place at Mulheim an der Ruhr on May ...
eHealth | 19.05.2011
André Calero Valdez (eHealth) winner at Science Slam Aachen 2011
On May 11th eHealth member Dipl.-Inform. André Calero Valdez won the first Aachener Science Slam at Jakobshof. In a ten minute talk he presented some results of his doctoral thesis he is writing within the eHealth programme. The perfect mixture of science and entertainment convinced the audience consisting of ...
EET | 18.05.2011
eet: Hillerbrand at ENRC meeting in Brussels
Prof. Hillerbrand gives an invited presentation at the 16th ENRC meeting in Brussels on Wednesday 18th of May. The special topic of the meeting is „Giving a voice to (young) researchers“.
The European Network on Research Careers (ENRC) was established in 2003 on the initiative of the DFG. Its aims were to provide a platform for ...
EET | 16.05.2011
eet: Ave Mets winner of the Regulatory Cosmopolitan masterclass prize
Ave Mets of EET has been selected as the winner of the Regulatory Cosmopolitan masterclass prize sponsored by the University of Tilburg. The jury consisted of the editors-in-chief of the international journal Law, Innovation and Technology (LIT). The prize entails a cash award and the offer of publication ...
EET | 11.05.2011
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand at the University of Aberdeen
Prof. Hillerbrand gives a talk on the 11th of May at the University of Aberdeen on "Ethcis & Energy. The Greenhouse Effect as an Interdisciplinary Problem". Furthermore, on the 13th of May she teaches a seminar on "Epistemic Uncertainties in Climate" at the same place.
EET | 28.04.2011
eet: Bericht im WDR Fernsehen
Am 28.04. sendet der WDR in der Lokalzeit Aachen einen Bericht über Ethics for Energy Technology. Es handelt sich um ein Porträt des Forschungsprojekts inkl. eines Interviews mit Prof. Hillerbrand.
Link.
EET | 28.04.2011
eet: Prof. Hillerbrand invited by the ethics commission for safe energy supply
Phoenix TV station will broadcast live.
The ethics commission for safe energy supply invited Prof. Dr. Dr. Hillerbrand as an expert to talk about "scientific und technical aspects of safe energy supply".On Thursday 28th April in between 12:15 and 14:30 p.m. Prof. Hillerbrand will have the opportunity to give ...
Natural Media | 18.04.2011
Natural Media & Engineering on television
Prof. Irene Mittelberg, Sukeshini Grandhi, Ph.D., Dr. Simon Harrison und Julius Hassemer, M.A. were invited to center.tv to talk about the research programme Natural Media & Engineering.
The recording of the tv appearance from March 16th is now available on our homepage. (German only)
Natural Media | 08.02.2011
Film about Student Research Project
UROP-Duo for Natural Media & Engineering
In summer 2010, two undergraduate students worked on a student research project entitled "Modeling gestures: Towards the analysis of fine-grained hand movements with MoCap systems" in the Natural Media Lab. The UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) International Project...
Natural Media | 28.01.2011
NM: Dr. Sukeshini Grandhi gives presentation at FIT in Sankt Augustin
Dr. Sukeshini Grandhi gave a presentation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Sankt Augustin,Sankt Augustin. The topic was "Understanding Naturalness and Intuitiveness in Gesture Production: Insights for Touchless Gestural Interfaces".
Natural Media | 24.01.2011
The Winner's Dinner: Dr. Simon Harrison wins the RWTH Science Slam and Dines with Rector and Chancellor
Following his win at the RWTH Aachen Science Slam, Dr. Simon Harrison from Natural Media & Engineering dines with Rector Ernst Schmachtenberg and Chancellor Manfred Nettekoven.
Dr. Simon Harrison from the Natural Media & Engineering group won the first ever RWTH Aachen ...
eHealth | 06.01.2011
eHealth: Three Books on eHealth and Smart-Healthcare-Applications published
In January 2011, three books on ehealth, smart healthcare and assistive technologies in the medical sector have been published at IGI Clobal, a well- renowed international publisher of Information Science, Medical Information Science, Business Science and Engineering Science reference sources. Martina Ziefle and Carsten Röcker ...Natural Media | 13.12.2010
Simon Harrison takes University of Paris Nanterre doctoral school From Performance to Excellence.
From Performance to Excellence is a workshop in graduate school success. During two days with the 10 Paris Nanterre doctoral students (December 9th and 10th), Dr. Harrison taught essential skills in academic speaking and writing, while explaining the habits of highly effective ...
Natural Media | 09.12.2010
Manufacturing Communication
News release of RWTH Aachen University about Dr. Simon Harrison's gesture research project (in German).
Natural Media | 26.11.2010
Dr. Harisson und Dr. Evola on workshop in Paris
Dr. Simon Harrison and Dr. Vito Evola from the Natural Media & Engineering group were invited as guest speakers to give a presentation entitled "Methods and strategies for a multimodal corpus analysis. Using ELAN for sound scientific research"at the workshop "Tools and Research based on Language Acquisition Corpora", which took place at the ...
Natural Media | 17.11.2010
Natural Media: Special journal issue on "Language and Gesture"
Prof. Mittelberg has edited a special issue of the journal Language and Literature (Wilhelm Fink Verlag). The issue on the topic 'Language and Gesture' contains contributions on the structure and semantics of coverbal gestures and signed languages by Gisela Fehrmann, Ellen Fricke, Ludwig Jäger, Silva H. Ladewig, Cornelia ...
eHealth | 11.11.2010
myGreenSpace on television
Kai Kasugai and Felix Heidrich were invited to center.TV to give an interview about their project "myGreenSpace" which recently won the 1st prize of the Nokia Ubimedia Award.
EET | 11.11.2010
Prof. Hillerbrand meets Federal Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand meets Federal Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan in Berlin today, to talk with her and PD Dr. Florian Steger (LMU Munich) about the Junge Akademie and the promotion of young scientists and scholars in Germany.
EET | 10.11.2010
Prof. Hillerbrand welcomed into online portal "AcademiaNet - Exzellente Wissenschaftlerinnen im Blick"
On recommendation of the Leopoldina, Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand has been welcomed into the online portal "AcademiaNet - Exzellente Wissenschaftlerinnen im Blick", which was presented and launched by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel last week.
EET | 25.10.2010
Publish or Perish – Probleme und Perspektiven des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens
Workshop und Podiumsdiskussion am 26. Oktober 2010 im KörberForum in Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand wird als Sprecherin der Jungen Akademie der Wissenschaften beim Workshop zum Thema "Papierstau im Exzellenzkampf: Hochschulen als Druckmaschinen oder Torwächter?" referieren und ...
eHealth | 14.10.2010
eHealth: "myGreenSpace" by Kai Kasugai and Felix Heidrich wins 1st Price at the Nokia Ubimedia Award
Kai Kasugai and Felix Heidrich were awarded the 1st prize at the Nokia Ubimedia Award with the project "myGreenSpace". The competition was part of the 14th Mindtrek Conference in Tampere, Finland, and was open to all kinds of artists, practitioners, and industries. As one of three finalists, they ...
HUMIC | 27.09.2010
Dr. Katrin Arning led working group at DGP 2010 with the topic "Acceptance of Technology in times of rapidly changing Technology"
On September 09th 2010 Dr. Katrin Arning led a working group at the 47th congress of the German Society of Psychology in Bremen. The working title was „Acceptance of Technology in times of rapidly changing Technology - new challenges for the psychological ...
Natural Media | 24.09.2010
Natural Media: Berkeley Gesture Group meeting
Prof. Irene Mittelberg & Dr. Vito Evola give a talk on
"From Cognitive Semiotics to Motion Capture Technology: Work in Progress in the Natural Media Lab"
at Berkeley Gesture Group, directed by Prof. Eve Sweetser, September 24, University of California, Berkeley.
Natural Media | 15.09.2010
Natural Media: Talk on "Image schemas in captured motion: First insights from a 3-D analysis" at CSDL Conference
Prof. Mittelberg and Dr. Evola give a talk on "Image schemas in captured motion: First insights from a 3-D analysis" at CSDL Conference (Cognitive Structures, Discourse, and Language). September 16 - 19, University of California, San Diego.
More information about the CSDL conference
...eHealth | 13.09.2010
Das eHealth Team gehört zu einem von drei Gewinnerteams der diesjährigen Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards
Kai Kasugai und Felix Heidrich sind mit ihrer Arbeit myGreenspace von einer mehrköpfigen Jury für die Gewinnerrunde des Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards 2010 nominiert worden.
Auszug aus dem Jury-Urteil:
Calling myGreenspace mere virtual wallpaper does not ...
Natural Media | 08.09.2010
Natural Media: Stipend from the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the James McDonnel Foundation (UK)
Dr. Gina Joue received a stipend from the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the James McDonnell Foundation (UK) to attend the summer school "The Visceral Mind: A Hands-on Course in the Neuroanatomy of Cognition", September 6-10, at Bangor University, Wales.
eHealth | 03.09.2010
Das ehealth Projekt vernetzt sich deutschlandweit
Das vom Bundesministerium geförderte Projekt E-Health@Home hat eine interaktive deutschlandweite Landkarte erstellt. Sie erlaubt einen systematischen und kassifizierenden Überblick über Modellprojekte aus dem Bereich Telemedizin und Ambient Assisted Living (AAL).
City 2020+ | 16.08.2010
"Driving Thermometers": City 2020+ in Media
The current temperature measurement campaign of City 2020+ subprojects "Cold Air Drainage Flows" and "Thermal Stress in Urban Areas" found high media attention. The local press as well as radio and TV reported on the as "driving thermometers" transformed buses of the ASEAG.
The following link leads you to an article published in Aachener ...
Natural Media | 14.07.2010
Natural Media: Participation at ISGS 2010
The entire Natural Media group will present at the 3rd Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), to be held at the European University Viadrina at Frankfurt/Oder (July 25th-30th)
The papers to be presented by the team members cover diverse fields such as cognitive semiotics, HCI, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and ...
EET | 08.07.2010
Prof. Hillerbrand im neu gewählten Vorstand der Jungen Akademie
Prof. Dr. phil. Dr. rer. nat. Rafaela Hillerbrand wurde zur Sprecherin des Vorstandes der Jungen Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina gewählt. Mit der Plenarsitzung am 28. Juni 2010 hat der neue Vorstand der Jungen Akademie seine ...
eHealth | 27.05.2010
Smart Floor in eHealth Future Care Lab successfully wired
The Cabling of the Intelligent Floor in the eHealth Future Care Lab is successfully completed. Below every base plate are installed 4 piezo-sensors. Regarding to the specific pressure they send a signal to the operational amplifier. The micro-controllers send evaluable information to the central computer. In total 250 piezo-sensors ...
eHealth | 06.05.2010
Closing Keynote at the VDI-Convention "Kunststoffe in der Medizintechnik" in Friedrichshafen
On April 29th, 2010, Dipl.-Ing. Lars Klack gave the Closing Keynote at the VDI-Convention "Kunststoffe in der Medizintechnik" about intelligent environments for medical assistance.
eHealth | 27.04.2010
eHealth wins renowned fellowship grant of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
In the selection process of the renowned "JSPS Fellowship Program", the eHealth team successfully establishes itself against national and international competitors and wins one of the highly coveted JSPS Fellowship grants. Within the scope of the fellowship program, Carsten Röcker will conduct ...
eHealth | 07.04.2010
In the eHealth Program the first patent was applied for: The Intelligent Baseboard
The corporate research group in the eHealth program is proud to present its first application for a patent. The basic idea of the "intelligent baseboard" (C. Möllering, K. Kasugai, T. Stachelhaus, P. Russell, reference number 10 2010 009 590.7) is a device in baseboard and door frame for object ...
eHealth | 06.04.2010
Program eHealth in current Newsletter on Interdisciplinary Forums of RWTH Aachen University
The program eHealth of Human Technology Center presents itself in the current Newsletter (01/10) on Interdisciplinary Forum of RWTH Aachen University. Topics are the working schedule and the content focusing.
eHealth | 18.03.2010
eHealth 'Future Care Lab' admitted to European Network of Living Labs
The eHealth Laboratory has been admitted to the European Network of Living Labs in the 4th Wave in the announcement of "Living Labs" (ENoLL). The eHealth Laboratory has now a full membership in the ENoLL Community and is now known as "The Future Care Lab"
On April 13th and 14th, 2010, the Laboratory will participate in ...
eHealth | 18.03.2010
eHealth Group in review board of the research Academy of Finland
Dr. Dr. Carsten Röcker was admitted as reviewer in natural and engineering science for the research Academy of Finland. The Academy of Finland is the prime funding agency for basic research in Finland. Fundings for universities and research institutions in the past year amount to 295 million euros.
eHealth | 04.03.2010
Our regional final winners of the Siemens Stiftung student competition in math, science and technology ”Using resources intelligently – Working today to conserve for tomorrow.“
Each year the siemens foundation announces a student competition in the field of math, science and technology. Students attending classes 11 to 13 make an application with innovative future ...
eHealth | 25.02.2010
Session Keynote at the International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing (COMA `10) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
Martina Ziefle and Eva-Maria Jakobs hold the Session-Keynote at the 4th international Conference on Competitive Manufacturing entitled „New Challenges in Human Computer Interaction – Strategic Directions and Interdisciplinary Tends". ...
HUMIC | 02.02.2010
Our project is now also represented on Facebook!
The HUMIC-team invites all interested parties to visit our profile and to discuss with other users online. This way to Facebook!
eHealth | 28.01.2010
The eHealth group presents research results at the 3rd AAL-convention
At the 3rd Ambient-Assisted-Living Conference in Berlin members of the eHealth-Program presented their results of the latest research to the expert audience. Motto of this years AAl-Conference was "Assistenzsysteme im Dienste des Menschen zuhause und unterwegs"
For further information
Alagöz, F.; Wilkowska, W., ...
EET | 28.01.2010
Wege aus der Klimakrise: Regenerative oder Kernenergie?
Hier gelangen Sie zu Berichterstattung über die Diskussion in den Aachener Nachrichten.
Expertendiskussion am 25. Januar 2010 Beginn: 19:00 Uhr im SuperC RWTH Aachen.
Organisiert wird das Expertengespräch von der HumTec-Forschungsgruppe "Ethics for Energy Technology" (EET). Wir haben es uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, eine ...
eHealth | 28.01.2010
Books dealing with eHealth to be released in 2010
In 2010 two research handbooks about eHealth will be released by IGI-Global.
The Handbook "Human-Centered Design of E-Health Technologies" (published by Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle and Dr. Dr. Carsten Röcker) is dealing with conflicts in user-orientated medicine technique regarded from different scientific point of views.
The second ...
eHealth | 27.01.2010
Siemens Stiftung student competition in math, science and technology 2010 dealing with future Energy-Geniuses
The Siemens Stiftung student competition in math, science and technology 2010 is entitled ”Using resources intelligently – Working today to conserve for tomorrow.“
This years student competition aims for new ideas of efficient energy use.
Each year, the ...
EET | 26.01.2010
Sind erneuerbare Energien nur eine Frage des Willens?
Aachen. Was die Beschlüsse von Politikern anbelangt, ist Rafaela Hillerbrand skeptisch. Die Professorin der Forschungsgruppe Ethics for Energy Technology (Ethik für Energietechnologie, EET) an der RWTH Aachen fragt: «Kann man Ziele im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel so beschließen wie Steuererhöhungen?»
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eHealth | 20.01.2010
eHealth group visits Smart Home in Eindhoven
On January 19th, 2010, the eHealth group visited the EU-Project "Soprano" and their "Smart Home"
eHealth | 14.01.2010
Lecturer Invitation for Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
Martina Ziefle was invited as speaker at the the series of lecrtures „Menschliche Informationsverarbeitung- interdisziplinäre Elementaranalyse und diagnostische Anwendung“ within the scope of the class of natural science at Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
The lecture entitled "Zur ...
eHealth | 14.01.2010
eHealth-Project in EU-Catalog "The Aging Society"
The eHealth-Program and its applicant body are represented in the EU-Catalog "The Aging Society" dealing with excellent large-scale projects in NRW.
Natural Media | 18.12.2009
Simon Harrison receives Humboldt fellowship for postdoctoral research in the Natural Media group
We are pleased to announce that Simon Harrison (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3) has received a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a two-year postdoctoral position in the Natural Media group starting in September. His research topic will be "Manufacturing ...
EET | 15.12.2009
IFHT/EET-Team im Finale der nPower Challenge 2010
Das gemeinsame IFHT/Humtec-Team ist in die finale Runde der nPower Challenge eingezogen. Das Team wird am 15. März 2010 gemeinsam mit einem Team der TU Darmstadt die deutschen Hochschulen im Londoner Wembley-Stadion vertreten! Weitere Informationen zur nPower Challenge.
Natural Media | 12.12.2009
12.-13. Dec. 2009: Visit from the TOPOI group from Berlin
The TOPOI group, in the Excellence Cluster C-1-I, is coming to visit the Natural Media group. Saturday evening is a relaxed get-together, and Sunday is an internal workshop on the topic of "Iconicity in ancient writing systems, sign language and gesture: sign and mind", with discussions of common research interests and possibilities for ...
EET | 03.12.2009
Zeit für den Rohstoffwandel
Unter diesem Titel ist in der aktuellen Ausgabe der RWTH Themen ein Artikel unter Mitarbeit der Ethics for Energy Technologies-Gruppe erschienen. Link
eHealth | 01.12.2009
International Workshop on Smart Health
At the OZCHI09: 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), University of Melbourne, Australia, the eHealth-Group, with colleagues from England and Austria, hosted a Workshop on Smart Health.
EET | 01.12.2009
Call for UROP Project Applications
The HumTec programme Ethics for Energy Technologies (EET) is offering a UROP project. Please find the call for applicants here (in German).
EET | 22.11.2009
Salon Kunst & Wissenschaft in Berlin
Am 22. November 2009 nimmt Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand, Leiterin des HumTec-Projektes "Ethics for Energy Technologies", am Salon Kunst & Wissenschaft zum Thema KlimaKunstForschung teil. Der Salon Kunst & Wissenschaft ist ein gemeinsames Projekt der Akademie der Künste und einer Arbeitsgruppe der Jungen Akademie an der ...
EET | 10.11.2009
Veranstaltung "Luxusgut Forschung" in der Reihe „Forum Technik - Wirtschaft – Ethik“
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand referiert am Dienstag, den 10.11.2009 auf der Veranstaltung "Luxusgut Forschung. Wissenschaft im Spannungsfeld von Freiheit und Wirtschaftlichkeit am Beispiel der Energieforschung". Die Veranstaltung findet unter Moderation von Barbara Baumann im ...
EET | 15.07.2009
HumTec-Professorin in die Junge Akademie aufgenommen
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand vom Institut für Philosophie der RWTH Aachen wurde jetzt in die Junge Akademie der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina aufgenommen. In Berlin erhielt die Juniorprofessorin für Angewandte Technikethik gemeinsam mit neun weiteren ...
eHealth | 26.06.2009
Keynote at Worldcongress
Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle is invited to give a Keynote at "17th Worldcongress on Ergonomics" of the International Ergonomic Association in Beijing, China.
The title of the keynote is "Aging and mobile devices: Challenges and requirements for age-senstive electronic information designs".
eHealth | 21.06.2009
Dr. Katrin Arning and Dr. Kathrin Hippmann receive the Borchersplakette of RWTH for excellent dissertations
On 19.06.2009 Katrin Arning and Kathrin Hippmann received the Borchersplakette for "summa cum laude" graduations.
eHealth | 19.05.2009
International Workshop for Medicine & Healthcare (HCI4MED)
For the international Human Computer Interaction Conference, taken place in September 2009 at Cambridge University, UK, the Workshop „Human–Computer Interaction for Medicine and Health Care (HCI4MED): Evaluation of Information Technology in Health Care“ was accepted by the Reviewers of the Conference Commitee.
The ...
eHealth | 28.02.2009
Dr. Dr. Carsten Röcker receives second doctor's degree
We congratulate Dr. Ing., Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Carsten Röcker on his second Promotion (Dr. phil.), which was succesfully finalized on Februar 9th, 2009, at Dortmund University.
eHealth | 01.12.2008
Kid's Corner in eHealth-Group
In October and November 2008, three of the third-party funds projects in the human and technology area took up employment. Their research results will flank the eHealth-Group of Prof. Martina Ziefle with regards to content and methods. The project's collaborators are "avocational" also mothers, who have to harmonize their research with the care of their children.
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