Events
Natural Media | Date: 12.07.2012
Natural Media: Guest talk by Bodo Winter
On Thursday, July 12, 2012, Bodo Winter from University of California, Merced will give a talk on "Recent Experimental Approaches to Conceptual Metaphor Theory", presenting work done in collaboration with his academic advisor Prof. Teenie Matlock.
The talk will start at 4pm and take place at HumTec, Theaterplatz 14, Room 303.
Abstract
Conceptual ...
Natural Media | Date: 23.05.2012
Natural Media: Guest talk by Prof. Leonard Talmy
The Natural Media team is delighted to announce that Prof. Leonard Talmy will soon be visiting the Natural Media group and give a talk on “Gestures as cues to a target”.
The talk will take place on May 23, 14:00h, at HumTec (Theaterplatz 14), Room 303.
If you would like to attend the talk, please e-mail Julius Hassemer.
Abstract
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Natural Media | Date: 04.05.2012
Natural Media: Workshop "Gestures@Work"
Natural and technology mediated gesture communication in the workplace
RWTH Aachen Impulse Workshop, Friday May 4, 2012, 9:00h, Human Technology Centre, Theaterplatz 14, R.303
The Natural Media & Engineering Group is hosting a workshop about research on the communicating body in interaction. The goal of this workshop is to bring together ...
Natural Media | Date: 26.04.2012
Natural Media: Guest talk by visiting scientist Dr. Pamela Perniss
Dr. Pamela Perniss from MPI Nijmegen and University College London will give a talk on 26 April 2012 at 16.15h as a part of the "Kolloquium zu Störungen der Kommunikation und Kognition". The title of her talk will be "The role of the visual modality in shaping language structure: Insights from sign language and gesture".
The ...
City 2020+ | From 18.04.2012 to 20.04.2012
City2020+: Engineering Life Quality for the Future
International Conference on'Demographic and Climate Challenges in the City'
Aachen, Germany, 18-20 April 2012
'Demographic and Climate Challenges in the City' provides an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in urban research. We invite scholars, researchers, planners and students to share results of ongoing or currently ...
Natural Media | From 24.01.2012 to 28.01.2012
Natural Media: Talk of Prof. Mittelberg at Aarhus Universität
On January 27th, Irene Mittelberg will hold a talk at the Winter Symposium of the Center for Semiotik at University of Aarhus. As the Symposium explores the question "What Are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them?", Prof. Mittelberg will talk about "Body Balance: Felt Qualities of Meaning in Gesture and Abstract Art": ...
eHealth | From 22.12.2011 to 24.12.2011
eHealth: first interdisciplinary doctorate successful
Dr. Lars Klack received his doctoral degree with great success. The doctorate is a result of a cooperation between the medical fakulty RWTH Aachen University (chair of Applied Medical Engineering, Prof. Dr. Schmitz-Rode) and the fakulty of philosophy RWTH Aachen (chair Communication Science, Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle). The chairman of the ...
Natural Media | Date: 19.12.2011
Dr. Nick Enfield: Distributed Agency
Max Planck Institute (Nijmegen)
This talk will focus on the nature of human agency in social interaction. The argument is that agency is fundamentally distributed, and is therefore an intrinsically interactional aspect of being human. I present a semiotic model that is needed for describing meaning, relevant both to language and gesture, and show how it ...
Natural Media | Date: 29.11.2011
"Jakobsonian perspectives on gesture"
Professor Irene Mittelberg will give an Invited talk with the Departamento de Letras Modernas, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. This video conference builds on an existing collaboration between the Natural Media group and the Departamento de Letras Modernas, where researchers also share interests in semiotics, gestures and sign languages.
Nov. ...
Natural Media | Date: 21.11.2011
Anna Kuhlen: Beyond the individual mind
Today, the Natural Media Visitor Anna Kuhlen PhD will be giving a talk in the domain of Experimental Cognitive Psychology. The talk "Beyond the individual mind: Interactive perspectives on speaking and gesturing" will take place right after Katja Eßers PhD Proposal presentation in room 303 at HumTec.
Abstract
Social interactions are joint ...
Natural Media | Date: 17.10.2011
Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium
The Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium focuses on gesture, motion, and movement behaviour in cognition and communication research. It is open to anyone who is interested. The venue of the colloquium will alternate between HumTec in Aachen and the German Sport University in Cologne.
Next session on October 17, 2011, 14h00-15h30
at Institut für Sprach- und ...
EET | From 20.09.2011 to 22.09.2011
Workshop on Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) within the 7th "Ökobilanzwerkstatt"
This year's "Ökobilanzwerkstatt", organzied by eet together with the IFHT (Institut für Hochspannungstechnik), will take place from the 20th - 22nd September. On the 20th we will hold a special workshop on the topic of social life cycle assessment at the SuperC (Fordsaal) (language ...
EET | Date: 16.08.2011
Special Workshop on uncertainties and law - collaboration between eet and Law & Technology
In Zusammenarbeit von Frau Prof. Rafaela Hillerbrand (ethics for energy technology) und Frau Magdalena Zietek (Law & Technology) findet ein Workshop "Epistemische Unsicherheiten und das Recht" am 16.8.2011, im Rahmen des 25. Weltkongress der Internationalen Vereinigung für ...
EET | Date: 21.07.2011
Tandem-Vortrag von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Turek zum Thema "Erdsystemmodelle aus Sicht des Reaktionstechnikers" und Prof. Dr.-Ing. Georg Schaub zum Thema "Orientierung der zukünftigen Entwicklung am globalen Kohlenstoffkreislauf"
Wir laden Sie ganz herzlich zum interdisziplinären EET-Kolloquium ein.
Am Donnerstag, den 21. Juli 2011, haben Sie die Gelegenheit, zwei ...
EET | From 11.07.2011 to 13.07.2011
Conference on Medicine and Technology together with Florian Steger and the workgroup Ethics in Practice of the JA
Die Arbeitsgruppe „Ethik in der Praxis“der Jungen Akademie an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina lädt zur TagungMedizin und Technik. Risikobewusstsein und ethischeVerantwortung infolge ...
Natural Media | Date: 11.07.2011
Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium
The Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium focuses on gesture, motion, and movement behaviour in cognition and communication research. It is open to anyone who is interested. The venue of the colloquium will alternate between HumTec in Aachen and the German Sport University in Cologne.
Next session on July 11, 2011, 15:00-16:30 h.
Rudolf Hellmuth (German Sport ...
EET | Date: 08.07.2011
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Daniel Barben on "Future Challenges"
The EET group is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture within our EET-Lecture Series.Prof. Dr. Daniel Barben (Inst. f. political sciences - future studies, RWTH Aachen) will give a talk on "Future Challenges" (in German).
Friday 8th July 2011, 16:00-18:00 pm,Human Technology Center, Theaterplatz 14, Raum 303
We look ...
Natural Media | Date: 20.06.2011
Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium
The Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium focuses on gesture, motion, and movement behaviour in cognition and communication research. It is open to anyone who is interested. The venue of the colloquium will alternate between HumTec in Aachen and the German Sport University in Cologne.
Next session on June 20, 2011, 15:00-16:30 h.
Stefan Kopp ...
eHealth | From 23.05.2011 to 02.06.2011
Internationale Workshop on Pervasive Health in Dublin
On May 23, 2011, the International Workshop "User-Centred Design of Pervasive Healthcare Applications" UCDPHA 2011 will take place in Dublin. Because of it's big success in 2010 the Workshop will be hold a second time. The Workshop "User-Centered Design of Pervasive Healthcare Applications" is initiated by Dr. Dr. Carsten ...
EET | Date: 19.05.2011
Guest lecture by PD Dr.-Ing. M.A. Guiseppe Strina on "Cybernetic Systems"
We regret to announce that this talk has been cancelled!
Natural Media | Date: 16.05.2011
Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium
The Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium focuses on gesture, motion, and movement behaviour in cognition and communication research. It is open to anyone who is interested. The venue of the colloquium will alternate between HumTec in Aachen and the German Sport University in Cologne.
Next session on May 16, 2011, 15:00-16:30 h.
Oliver Schreer (Fraunhofer ...
EET | Date: 18.04.2011
Prof. Hillerbrand will give a talk within an academic discussion on "Desertec: Energy for the Future?".
This event takes place at Kármán Auditorium, Fo4, on Monday 18th of April at 19.00 p.m. Further information is available here.
EET | Date: 14.04.2011
Guest lecture by Sven Diekmann on "Ethics of Modelling"
The EET group is pleaded to invite you to a guest lecture within our EET-Lecture series.
Sven Diekmann will give a talk on "Ethics of Modelling" (in German).
Thursday 14th April 2011, 16:00-18:00 pm,Human Technology Center, Theaterplatz 14, Raum 303We look forward to seeing you!
EET | Date: 14.04.2011
Workshop for schoolgirls on "Ethics, Energy and Technology" within the national Girls´Day
Thursday 14th April 2011, 13:30-16:00 pm, Human Technology Center, Theaterplatz 14, Raum 303
EET beteiligt sich am Girls´Day 2011. Im Rahmen dieser bundesweiten Veranstaltung bieten wir einen Workshop für Schülerinnen der Klassen 5 bis 8 zum Thema "Ethik, Energie ...
Natural Media | From 08.04.2011 to 09.04.2011
The EXBODIED MIND Workshop:Motion in Communication and Cognition Research
Pre-registration deadline was Mar. 18th (pre-registration now closed)
Natural Media | Brain/Concept/Writing | From 11.02.2011 to 12.02.2011
Interdisciplinary Workshop
WERKZEUG –
DENKZEUG...
... zur Transmedialität kreativer Prozesse
February, 11 & 12, 2011Reiff Museum, Raum 215-217
RWTH Aachen University
Organizer:
Lehrstuhl für Bildnerische GestaltungUniv.-Prof. Dipl.Ing.Thomas H.Schmitz (Initiator)
in collaboration with
...
EET | Date: 13.01.2011
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Emanuel Richter on "Impacts of Political Systems"
The EET group is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture within our EET-Lecture Series.This semester five speakers from different fields of research are going to give talks on challenges in future energy supply.Prof. Dr. Emanuel Richter, Institut für politische Wissenschaft, RWTH Aachen, will give a talk on ...
EET | Date: 18.12.2010
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Walter Kaiser on "Störfälle und Katastrophen in der Energieversorgung"
The EET group is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture within our EET-Lecture Series.This semester five speakers from different fields of research are going to give talks on challenges in future energy supply.Prof. Dr. Walter Kaiser, Lehrstuhl für technische Geschichte, RWTH ...
EET | From 09.12.2010 to 10.12.2010
Zweiter Workshop "Ethik in der Praxis" der Jungen Akademie am 9. und 10. Dezember 2010
an der Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Dr. Hillerbrand
weitere Infos im Programm
eHealth | From 19.11.2010 to 24.11.2010
International Workshop on Smart Health
At the OZCHI10: 22nd Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), University of Brisbane, Australia, the eHealth-Group, with colleagues from Singapore (Nanyang Technological University), Australia (Commonwealth Scientific and ...
EET | Date: 18.11.2010
Guest lecture by Dipl.-Ing. Christian Dieckhoff on "Empirische Untersuchung der Praxis der Energiemodellierung"
The EET group is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture within our EET-Lecture Series.
This semester five speakers from different fields of research are going to give talks on challenges in future energy supply.Dipl.-Ing. Christian Dieckhoff will give a talk on "Empirische ...
EET | Date: 10.11.2010
Vortrag von Prof. Hillerbrand zum Thema "Ethische Aspekte des Klimawandels"
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand hält im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Faszination Technik" einen Vortrag zum Thema "Ethische Aspekte des Klimawandels".
Alle relevanten Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden Sie auf der Seite des LBZ RWTH Aachen.
City 2020+ | Date: 04.11.2010
Talk: "Gebäude+Technik: Zertifizierung von Gebäuden nach DGNB-Vorgaben für Planung und Ausführung"
As a part of the series of lectures "Gebäude+Technik", Mr. Herr Thomas Kleist, DGNB, TU Dortmund, will give a talk on "Zertifizierung von Gebäuden nach DGNB - Vorgaben für Planung und Ausführung". November 04, Room BS II, Baugebäude ...
EET | Date: 30.10.2010
Prof. Hillerbrand - „Junge Akademie macht Schule". Dialog über Forschung und Wissenschaft
Am Sonntag, den 30.10.2010, diskutieren Schüler in Schloss Döllnsee mit Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand ihr Buch "Technik, Ökologie und Ethik" im Rahmen des Workshops „Junge Akademie macht Schule". Dialog über Forschung und Wissenschaft.
EET | Date: 20.10.2010
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand "Wissenschaftliche Modellierung und epistemische Unsicherheiten"
Kolloquium: "Wissenschaftliche Modellierung und epistemische Unsicherheiten"
Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010, 17.15 Uhr Pausenhalle des Philosophischen Instituts, Eilfschornsteinstr. 16, 52062 Aachen
Natural Media | Date: 12.08.2010
The Natural Media group invites to an afternoon with two guest lectures on multimodal interaction
On Thursday, August 12, HumTec, Room 303
16.00 h Mischa Park-Doob, University of California, Berkeley: Gesture holds in relation to speech: Comprehension and context maintenance during disfluencies, interruptions, and turn transitionsClick here to access an abstract of this talk.
17.00 ...
Natural Media | From 22.07.2010 to 24.07.2010
Natural Media: 1st Summer School of the ISGS
Irene Mittelberg (HumTec) and Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina) will run a workshop on gesture analysis at the first summer school of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS):
The 1st Summer School of the ISGS
Handling Gesture: Theory and Method in Gesture Studies
European University Viadrina Frankfurt an ...
eHealth | From 22.07.2010 to 23.07.2010
ehealth: Workshop "What makes a word a word?", organized by the BMBF-Projectgroup "Anthropological Universals - Cultural Differences"
(July, 22-23, RWTH Aachen, Super C)
The international and interdisciplinary conference, organized by the team around Prof. Dr. C. Stetter, Prof. Dr. M. Ziefle, Prof. Dr. W. Huber, addresses the question “What makes a word a word?” from a ...
Natural Media | Date: 16.07.2010
Natural Media and Engineering invites to a guest lecture on
Grammar, discourse and the body in Brazilian Sign Language
by Leland McCleary, University of São Paulo, on Friday, 16 July, 2010 17:00 Uhr, Human Technology Centre (HumTec), Theaterplatz 14, Room 303
Leland McCleary is professor of Modern Languages at the University of São Paulo, Brazil with research ...
eHealth | From 14.07.2010 to 16.07.2010
ehealth: Special thematic session "HCI4Aging" on 12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP)
July 14-16, 2010, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
ICCHP focuses on all aspects related to Assistive Technologies (AT) and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for people with disabilities. According changes in awareness and understanding of ...
EET | Date: 09.07.2010
Ethics for Energy Technology:
Talk on Open Innovation by Prof. Frank Piller
The EET group is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture this Friday: Prof. Dr. Frank Thomas Piller, RWTH Aachen: OpenInnovation - Ansätze in Industrie und Wissenschaft
Friday, 9 July 2010, 16:00-18:00 pm, HumTec, Theaterplatz 14, Raum 303 We look forward to seeing you on Friday!
Natural Media | From 30.06.2010 to 03.07.2010
Natural Media & Engineering: Prof. Irene Mittelberg will hold a workshop on metaphor and metonymy in painting at the upcoming
8th International Conference on Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8) at VU University Amsterdam
(30 June - 3 July, 2010)
The aim of this workshop is to explore cognitive-semiotic principles in prints and paintings stemming from different eras and art ...
City 2020+ | Date: 28.06.2010
Vortrag von Timo Sachsen zum Thema: "Gesamtstädtische Klimagutachten Aachen"
Am Montag, den 28. Juni um 14.00 Uhr
HumTec-Gebäude, Theaterplatz 14, Raum 303
eHealth | From 25.05.2010 to 07.06.2010
International Workshop at Keio University Tokyo, Japan
The project "Anthropological Universals - Cultural Differences" (Applicants: Prof. Dr. C. Stetter, Prof. Dr. M. Ziefle, Prof. Dr. W. Huber - BMBF reference no. 01UA0807), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, conducts an international Workshop at Keio University Tokyo in may 2010. The Workshop's ...
EET | Date: 29.04.2010
International EET Seminar on Practical Philosophy
Ethics for Energy Technology (EET) veranstaltet am 29.4.2010 um 17:00 Uhr ein zweistündiges internationales Seminar zu aktuellen Themen aus der praktischen Philosophie. Die beiden Sprecher sind Steve Clarke, University of Oxford zum Thema „Do Philosophers have expert intuitions?" und Nicholas Shackel, Cardiff University zum Thema ...
eHealth | Date: 22.04.2010
Workshop im Boostfundproject: Gender-related Acceptance, Usability and Ethics in New (Medical) Technologies (AC-TEC)
On April 22nd, 2010, an interdisziplinary Workshop in the AC-TEC-Project: Gender-related Acceptance, Usability and Ethics in New (Medical) Technologies proceeded.
The project's ambition is to expand a predominant product-oriented technology ...
Natural Media | Date: 21.04.2010
***Due to the current flight restrictions, our guest's flight was cancelled! New time and date will be announced soon.***
Prof. Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University, Be'er-Sheva, Israel) will visit HumTec to give a talk about the semiotic analysis of gesture in developmental and clinical phonology, prosody and sign language.He will present his work on Phonology as Human Behaviour (PHB) and the ...
eHealth | Date: 22.03.2010
International Workshop at Pervasive Health in Munich
On March 22nd, 2010, the international Workshop "User-Centered Design of Pervasive Healthcare Applications" takes place.
Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dr. Dr. Carsten Röcker,RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
...Law & Tech | From 15.03.2010 to 17.03.2010
International Book Symposium on Michael S. Moore's "Causation and Responsibility. An Essay in Law, Ethics and Metaphysics"
15 - 17 March 2010 at SuperC, RWTH Aachen University
For this international conference of the type "author meets critics" one of the most distinguished legal scholars and philosophers, Professor Michael S. Moore, comes to Aachen to discuss his latest book "Causation ...
Natural Media | From 05.03.2010 to 06.03.2010
Natural Media: ERS Impulse Workshop - Communication, Technology and Brains
5th-6th March 2010, SuperC RWTH Aachen
For two days, the initiative ERS (Exploratory Research Space) provides scientists and students with a platform for interdisciplinary exchange in the fields health science, medical engineering, psychology, philosophy, biology, and computer sciences. The workshop is facilitated by ...
EET | Date: 25.01.2010
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 ...
City 2020+ | Date: 25.01.2010
Vortrag von Katja Eßer zum Teilprojekt Umweltgeschichte
14:00 Uhr
Raum 407, HumTec Gebäude, Theaterplatz 14
Natural Media | Date: 21.01.2010
nm: Guest speaker Elisabeth Wehling (UC Berkeley) talks on Discourse Structuring Gestures in Argument
"Political Debate is Gesture War: Function, Form and Prosody of Discourse Structuring Gestures in Argument"
January 21, 2010, 5pm, HumTec, Room 303, in English
In her talk, Elisabeth Wehling will account for what she calls "discourse structuring gestures" for the special case of argumentative ...
Natural Media | From 16.01.2010 to 24.01.2012
Natural Media: Talk of Dr. Judith Holler about "Gesture use in social context"
We are pleased to announce the fourth lecture of this semester´s Cologne-Aachen Gesture Colloquium: on Monday January 23rd, 3.30pm, Dr. Judith Holler of Max Planck Institute Nijmegen will talk about "Gesture use in social context: the influence of common ground on co-speech gesture production in dyadic ...
Natural Media | Date: 25.11.2009
Talk „Semiotische Prinzipien in redebegleitenden Gesten“
Prof. Irene Mittelberg (HumTec-Programm "Natural Media and Engineering") give a talk on „Semiotische Prinzipien in redebegleitenden Gesten“ at Liguistischer Arbeitskreis des Instituts für Sparche- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (ISK), November 25, 2009 17h.
EET | Date: 22.11.2009
Salon Kunst & Wissenschaft 22.11.2009 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 ...
EET | Date: 17.11.2009
Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand: Lecture at research colloquium HHU Düsseldorf:
"How to make sense of Nagel's intertheoretic reduction? The case of thermodynamics"
November 17th 2009 18:00 p.m.Heinrich-Heine-Universität DüsseldorfGeb. 23.21 / U1.83
About the lecture:This paper argues that two issues, though crucial in intertheoretic reduction within the science, are ...
Natural Media | Date: 12.10.2009
Guest talk by Dr. Simon Harrison
Simon Harrison (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle—Paris 3) talks about "Manufacturing Communication: Analysis, development, and implementation of gestural codes in industrial settings".When: 12. October 2009; 11:00 Where: HumTec Centre; Room 303
EET | From 11.05.2009 to 15.05.2009
May 11th-15th 2009: Poster Presentation of EET at ACHEMA
Poster Presentation of EET at ACHEMA 2009: Global balances as a basis for ethical statements
EET | From 11.05.2009 to 15.05.2009
Vortrag von Christine Roll zum Thema "Neuere Forschung zur Umweltgeschichte"
14.00 Uhr
Raum 407, HumTec Gebäude, Theaterplatz 14
EET | Date: 11.05.2009
May 11th 2009: Genug LebensEnergie für alle?
Presentations held by Prof. Hillerbrand and Prof. Pfennig concerning theory of science and future development of energy policy - see Links: slideshows, RWTH Aachen University announcement (German), General Report (German), Leaflet (pdf, German).
Grenzen & Möglichkeiten - Die technischen Aspekte Referent: Prof. Andreas ...EET | Date: 23.04.2009
April 23rd 2009: Girls Day
At the Girls Day on April 23rd 2009 school students got the possibility to have a view into career possibilites for women in university research at the RWTH Aachen University and the HumTec Technology Centre. Dipl.-Ing. Martin Scheufen introduced them into programming with his programming language "Blopp" which is optimised for learning.
