Computational Visualistics, Media Informatics, and Virtual Communities [Paperback]

In April, 2003 representatives of a group of mostly German research universities offering degree programs in the areas of Computational Visualistics and Media Informatics met for the first time in Magdeburg, Germany. This volume collects information on their views of their own degree and research programs as a starting point for discussions.In recent years there has been a rising awareness within the international scientific commu? nity that there is a need to study the various aspects of the integration of images and new me? dia both from the point of view of computer science as well as from other areas which deal with users' interface to information sources, in particular design, psychology, education, po? litical science, sociology, and philosophy. To a certain extent the view of the topic from any single one of these disciplines leads to a one-sided analysis. Indeed, interdisciplinary approaches involving two or more of them ap? plied to selected research problems have emerged. Examples of scientific conferences which embody such approaches are CHI and the German Mensch und Computer Conferences, where in particular the collaboration between disciplines is furthered. Truly interdisciplinary research involving pairs of disciplines, or even triplets or quadruples of these areas, are still few and far between.Mit Beitr?gen von:Frieder Nake, Rainer Groh, Heinrich Hussmann, Elisabeth Andr?, Wolfgang Prinz, Klaus Sachs-Hombach, J?rg R.J. Schirra, Jochen Schneider, Thomas Strothotte, Winfried Marotzki, Jana Dittmann, Frank Lesske, Nick Halper, Mara Mellin, Christoph Herrmann, Volker Linneweber, Roland Jesse, Gunter Saake, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Klaus-D. T?nnies, Klemens B?hm, Ingo Schmitt, Ren? Rosenbaum, Heidrun Schumann, Rainer Kohlschmidt, Ian J. Pitt, Gerhard Weber, Michael WeberDr. Jochen Schneider und Prof. Dr. Thomas Strothotte lehren am Institut f?r Simulation und Graphik der Universit?t Magdeburg.
Prof. Dr. Winfried Marotzki lehrt am Institut f?r Erziehungl£)