Course Catalog

Study Program WiSe 2019/2020

Digitale Medien, M.Sc.

1st academic year

Veranstaltungen von MG ( Media Design) und MT ( Media Theory) finden primär in der HfK statt.
Das Seminar Introduction to Digital Media wird von der HfK angeboten.

M-MI (Media Informatics)

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
03-06-B-500.11Advanced Techniques for Creative Coding in Processing (in English)

Blockveranstaltung (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Additional dates:
Wed. 15.01.20 18:00 - 19:00 CART Rotunde - 0.67
Mon. 10.02.20 - Fri. 14.02.20 (Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.) 09:00 - 17:00 MZH 1470
Mon. 02.03.20 - Fri. 06.03.20 (Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri.) 09:00 - 17:00 MZH 1470
Fri. 06.03.20 14:00 - 18:00 CART Rotunde - 0.67

This course is for students who have already attended a programming course (such as "Informatik für Gestalter") and are familiar with basic programming concepts such as variables, conditionals, loops, and objects. In this course, we will extend and consolidate these programming skills. We will also briefly repeat some of the main basic programming concepts (but quite quickly and thus too fast for beginners). If you are interested in this course and do not have any programming skills yet or if you want to combine this course to a 9 ECTS module, please have a look at the bottom of this text, which describes some options.

Most examples and programming tasks in this course will be about "things that move" (on the screen). We will create many interactive graphical programs by using the Processing programming environment. The main literature will be "The Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman (the book is available online for free).

The course consists of two major blocks, each taking one week.
The first block is about objects that move, accelerate, collide, and bounce. We will explore the basic formulas that allow us to let dynamics things happen on our screens. Furthermore, the basic concepts and the usage of a physics engine will be explained. The second block is about autonomous agents, e.g. programs that are "intelligent" (not really...) and make own "decisions", such as non-player characters in computer games. Some basic concepts regarding decision-making, path planning, and swarm behaviors will be introduced. Furthermore, we might have a short look at evolutionary algorithms, which enable our programs to adapt over to time.

However, these aforementioned applications, which are fun to play with and which leave a lot of space for your creativity, are also a means to an end. Along with them, we will refresh and consolidate the knowledge about programming techniques for handling data structures, iterations, algorithms, and multiple aspects of object-oriented programming.

We will have a short kickoff meeting a few weeks before this course starts. During this meeting, some more details will be presented and questions regarding the organization of the course will be answered.

If you do not have any programming skills yet or need more ECTS points in total, there are different options: Students of "Digital Media and Society" can combine this course with "Self-Study: Introduction to Programming". Students of Master Digital Media at HfK can take "First steps into Creative Coding with Processing". Furthermore it is possible to take the (German) course "Informatik für Gestalter und General Studies", which has a 3 ECTS option. However, Digital Media master students can not get any credit points at the latter option.

This course is not available for computer science students but it is open to Digital Media students from the university.

Dr. Tim Laue
03-06-B-500.12Self-Study: Introduction to Programming (in English)
Nur für Studierende des FB9 'Digital Media and Society'

Kurs (Teaching)
ECTS: 3

Additional dates:
Mon. 21.10.19 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 0.01
Mon. 11.11.19 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 1.41
Mon. 02.12.19 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 1.41
Mon. 16.12.19 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 1.41
Mon. 06.01.20 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 1.41
Mon. 20.01.20 16:00 - 18:00 Cartesium 1.41

This course can only be taken in combination with "Advanced Techniques for Creative Coding in Processing" for completing the 9 ECTS media informatics module of Digital Media and Society.

All participants independently work through the first chapters of the book "Learning Processing" by Daniel Shiffmann (copies of the book can be borrowed from the lecturer). In these chapters, the most important computer programming basics, such as variables and conditionals, are introduced and demonstrated with interactive graphic examples.

This is a self-study course. Thus, no regular lectures and tutorials will be held. However, there will be one initial meeting for discussing organizational details as well as a number of open meetings for questions and consultations.
The course requires a set of programming homeworks to be solved during the semester. The course ends with a short oral exam.

Dr. Tim Laue
03-06-M-306Usable Security (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 4

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 5300 Seminar

Profil: DM

Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka
03-MB-711.02Cognitive Modeling (in English)

Kurs (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 08:00 - 12:00 CART 0.01 (Besprechungsraum) Kurs

Profil: KIKR, MC

Holger Schultheis
03-ME-708.03Virtual Reality and Physically-Based Simulation (in English)
Virtuelle Realität und physikalisch-basierte Simulation

Lecture (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 16:00 - 18:00 MZH 1090 Vorlesung
weekly (starts in week: 1) Wed. 12:00 - 14:00 MZH 1090 Übung

Profil: KIKR, DMI. English or German.
Over the past two decades, VR has established itself as an important tool in several industries, such as manufacturing (e.g., automotive, airspace, ship building), architecture, and pharmaceutical industries. During the past few years, we have been witnessing the second "wave" of VR, this time in the consumer, in particular, in the entertainment markets.

Some of the topics to be covered (tentatively):
• Introduction, basic notions of VR, several example applications
• VR technologies: displays, tracking, input devices, scene graphs, game engines
• The human visual system and Stereo rendering
• Techniques for real-time rendering
• Fundamental immersive interaction techniques: fundamentals and principles, 3D navigation, user models, 3D selection, redirected walking, system control
• Complex immersive interaction techniques: world-in-miniature, action-at-a-distance, magic lens, etc.
• Particle systems
• Spring-mass systems
• Haptics and force feedback
• Collision detection
• Acoustic rendering
The assignments will be mostly practical ones, based on the cross-platform game engine Unreal. Participants will start developing with "visual programming", and later use C++ to solve the assignments.
You are encouraged to work on assignments in small teams.
https://cgvr.cs.uni-bremen.de/teaching/

Prof. Dr. Gabriel Zachmann
03-ME-804.99bSonification (in English)

Kurs (Teaching)
ECTS: 4

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 08:00 - 10:00 MZH 6210 Kurs
N. N.
03-ME-804.99cAdvanced Topics in Digital Media: An HCI Perspective on Chatbots (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 10:00 - 14:00 MZH 5300 Seminar

4 SWS, Profil: DMI
Chatbots are computer programs that automatically process and answer text messages. They can be used in many different areas, e.g. to support human costumer service assistants. Recent developments and achievements in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) allow to build more complex and intelligent chatbots than ever before, raising questions relating to human-computer interaction (HCI), e.g.: How can we build chatbots to satisfy the users needs? How different do users behave when they interact with chatbots?

Within this seminar we will address these questions from different perspectives. First, we will have a look at related scientific work from Weizenbaum’s ELIZA to current more sophisticated approaches. Second, together we will try out and test different tools to create chatbots, e.g. Google’s Dialogflow, and discuss pros and cons. Third, we will create and evaluate bots to find out which questions people do really ask different kind of chatbots.

Dr. Nina Wenig

M-MT (Media Theory)

Additional courses can be found at the HfK website (http://www.hfk-bremen.de/t/digitale-medien).
Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
09-71-A.1-1Approaches to Digital Media (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Additional dates:
Mon. 14.10.19 09:00 - 18:00 LINZ4 60070
Thu. 24.10.19 - Fri. 25.10.19 (Thu., Fri.) 09:00 - 18:00 LINZ4 60070


Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
09-71-A.1-2Digital Life (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 LINZ4 60070 UNICOM 3.0210 Seminarraum 2 WiWi1 A1070 (2 Teaching hours per week)

Description:

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann

M-MA-2 (Special Topics in Digital Media)

All M-MI, M-MD, M-MT courses can be taken as M-MA-2
Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
03-ME-804.99bSonification (in English)

Kurs (Teaching)
ECTS: 4

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Mon. 08:00 - 10:00 MZH 6210 Kurs
N. N.
09-60-M7-HConstructive Journalism (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Tue. 08:00 - 10:00 MZH 1460 (2 Teaching hours per week)


Christoph Sodemann ((LB))

M-MA-1 / M-MD (HfK)

Die Anmeldung zu Veranstaltungen dieser Module können nur an der HfK vorgenommen werden. https://portal.hfk-bremen.de/myartist/mycourses/Seiten/registration.aspx
Registration for courses in these modules can only be done at the HfK. https://portal.hfk-bremen.de/myartist/mycourses/Seiten/registration.aspx
Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
03-06-M-510.00Introduction to Digital Media (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)
ECTS: 6

The course is tought by Frieder Nake in cooperation with Peter von Maydell (HfK) and Petra Klusmeyer

Monday 14:00 to 18:00h in HfK Auditorium

Frieder Nake

2nd academic year

Graduate Seminars

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
03-05-H-708.91Graduate Seminar Media, Art, Interaction (in English)
Graduiertenseminar Medien, Kunst, Interaktion

Seminar (Teaching)

Additional dates:
Tue. 05.11.19 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100
Tue. 19.11.19 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100
Tue. 03.12.19 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100
Tue. 17.12.19 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100
Tue. 14.01.20 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100
Tue. 28.01.20 14:00 - 16:00 MZH 1100

Informal Seminar
for those Students whose thesis work I advise: Bachelor & Master levels, Digital Media, Design, Informatik

Frieder Nake
03-IGRAD-CoSy (03-05-H-711.91)Graduiertenseminar Cognitive Systems (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
fortnightly (starts in week: 16) Wed. 14:00 - 17:00 Graduiertenseminar
Thomas Dieter Barkowsky

M-MA-2 Special Topics of Digital Media (alt: M-105)

Course numberTitle of eventLecturer
09-71-A.1-1Approaches to Digital Media (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Additional dates:
Mon. 14.10.19 09:00 - 18:00 LINZ4 60070
Thu. 24.10.19 - Fri. 25.10.19 (Thu., Fri.) 09:00 - 18:00 LINZ4 60070


Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
09-71-A.1-2Digital Life (in English)

Seminar (Teaching)

Dates:
weekly (starts in week: 1) Thu. 10:00 - 12:00 LINZ4 60070 UNICOM 3.0210 Seminarraum 2 WiWi1 A1070 (2 Teaching hours per week)

Description:

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann