Research
Current Research Projects
The following projects are main topics of research of the Media Informatics Group:
Research Group Fluidum
The Fluidum project investigates interaction techniques and metaphors for ubiquitous computing.
Funding: DFG project
Website: http://www.fluidum.org/
Development of Multimedia Applications
Our goal is to develop adequate concepts and tools for multimedia application development. Considering software engineering principles and best practices of common application development, we aim at solutions customized for the specific needs of the multimedia domain.
Funding: Internal project
Website: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/forschung/mma/
Convergence
The project Convergence aims at enhancing the internet with a content-centric, publish-subscribe service model, based on a common container for any kind of data, including representations of people and Real World Objects.
Funding: EU project
Website: http://www.ict-convergence.eu/
Contact: Alina Hang
Former Research Projects
Development support for software systems with integrated interactive 3D scenes
Development support for software systems with integrated interactive 3D scenes, e. g. product configurators, virtual galleries, (distributed ) VR-applications, etc. Future research: AR-applications.
Funding: Internal project
Website: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/forschung/ssiml/
Contact: Arndt Vitzthum
EnterCom
EnterCom searches those technical, organizational and social developments which determine the organization communication in the future. With a horizon of 10 years the project establishes on the one hand a substantiated prediction and introduces, on the other hand, also strategies to face the remaining insecurity in an economical way.
Funding: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH &Co.KG
Website: http://www.zim.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/entercom/index.html
Träger: Zentrum für Internetforschung und Medienintegration (ZIM)
Discreet
The project aims to define technical solutions to support the introduction of new mobile/ubiquitous services by addressing the related privacy issues.
Funding: EU project
Website: http://www.ist-discreet.org/
SMS - Simple Mobile Services
The goal of the SMS (Simple Mobile Services) project is to create innovative tools enabling a new class of services, addressing the specific needs of mobile users and enabling individuals and small businesses to become service providers. We call these services Simple Mobile Services (SMS).
Website: http://www.ist-sms.org/, http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/forschung/sms/
Contact: Gregor Broll
MediaNet
MediaNet identifies and examines new approaches of distributing professional and user-generated content.
Funding: Deutsche Telekom AG Laboratories (T-Labs)
Website: http://www.zim.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/medianet/
Intermedia
Intermedia is a joint research project dedicated to examining the impact of the Internet on information intermediaries in media-related businesses.
Funding: BMBF project
Website: http://www.intermedia.lmu.de/
Träger: Zentrum für Internetforschung und Medienintegration (ZIM)
Perci (PERvasive ServiCe Interaction)
The goal of the projecte is to investigate and develop new methods for mobile interactions with the Internet of Things.
Funding: NTT DoCoMo Euro-Labs
Website: http://www.hcilab.org/projects/perci/
Research Group Embedded Interaction
The main interest of the research group "Embedded Interaction" is the development of concepts, methods and toolkits to advance embedded human-computer interaction.
Funding: DFG project
Website: http://www.hcilab.org/
