Advanced Seminar Media Informatics

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Mayer
In charge: Kathrin Schnizer
Hours per week: 2
ECTS credits: 6
Language: English
Capacity: max. 32
Module: P 2, WP 2, WP 8 (MA MI PStO 2022); P 4, WP 2, WP 2 (MA MCI PStO 2022); P3, WP 8, WP 11, WP 14 (MA INF PStO 2022)
Note: that as a student of Media Informatics / Human-Computer Interaction you may of course also attend advanced seminars at other chairs.

• Syllabus
• Location
• Schedule
• Material
• Topics
• Grading
• Registration

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Syllabus

During the course, students will study and present current human-computer interaction topics (and adjunct topics, like computer graphics, visualization, interactive machine learning, and design) in the form of a literature review paper. Topics will be presented in the first appointment of the semester. After the first appointment, each student will get their own unique topic. Each topic corresponds to a member of our team. Over the semester, the students and team members will have to meet on a regular basis to discuss the process and next steps in one-on-one settings.

During the semester, students will review each other's literature review papers to provide feedback and, thus, understand the academic review process better. Based on the reviews, students will improve their work for the final submission. Moreover, to get an understanding of literature reviews, students will read, summarize, and present one literature review at the beginning of the semester. This will greatly help them write their own literature review.

Finally, at the end of the semester, all students will have to present their work in an oral, in-person presentation.

The course is suitable for:

• Media Informatics (Master)
• Human-Computer Interaction (Master)
• Computer Science (Master)

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Location

Thalkirchner Straße 36, Room 151
Access via Frauenlobstr. 7a

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Schedule

All dates are mandatory to attend in-person.

Date	Time	Event
07.05.2025	16:15 - 20:00	Kick-off and assignment of topics
21.05.2025	16:15 - 20:00	Literature review paper presentations
28.05.2025	16:15 - 20:00	90-second pitches
22.07.2025	16:15 - 20:00	Final presentations Part 1
23.07.2025	16:15 - 20:00	Final presentations part 2

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Material

All materials will be made available on Moodle: Go to Moodle Course.

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Topics

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Grading

The grade is based on a presentation and a written paper.

• The presentation must be 10 minutes.
• The paper must contain 20,000 - 30,000 characters using the LaTex template

More details on the grading:

• Presence at all mandatory dates
• Frequent meetings with supervisor
• The summary presentation of a literature review must be 5 minutes
• The pich presentation must be 3 minutes and 2 minutes Q&A.
• The witten assignment must be in English (20,000 - 30,000 characters, two-column format, references and appendix do not count towards the characters count)
• Review of at least two papers written by fellow students
• Presentation (15 minutes; 10 min presentation + 5 min questions) at the end of the semester

Registration

Interested students can apply for this practical course via the central registration process. Details on this will be published via institute's communication channels. Signing up for this course directly is not possible.