Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Students will learn the fundamental concepts of human-computer interaction and user-centered design thinking. Students will work in teams of 2 on an interaction design project that is supported by lec-tures, readings, and discussions. Topics will include User-Centered Design, Human, Attention, Perception, Recognition, Prototyping (low-fidelity, high-fidelity), Human Performance Model (e.g., Hick’s Law, Fitts’ Law, Keystroke-Level Model), Design Evaluation, Heuris-tics, Quantitative & Qualitative Evaluation.

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Foundations of Artificial Intelligence: models and paradigms, representations, search methods, inference and reasoning, planning and learning. Applications, such as Interpretation of written text, speech or images. Intelligence in games for path and action planning, artificial characters, behavior, emotion, swarm intelligence. Rule-based system, software implementation of AI concepts.

Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Modern Software Architectures and Methods of System Design, Modeling- and Design-Patterns, Development Environments, Test-cases, Use-cases, Performance vs. Elegance.

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Tasks, Threads, Thread-Synchronization, Interprocess-Communication, Signals, Pipes, FIFO, Message-Queues, Shared-Memory, OSI-Model, ICMP, TCP, UDP, Sockets, Server-Client Architectures, Multiplexed-IO, Asynchronous-IO, SUN-RPC, SUN-RMI, Object Serialization.

Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Students will learn the fundamental concepts of advanced computer graphics techniques. Topics will include introduction in GPU programming (Cg, GLSL), advanced shading and texturing techniques (e.g. parallax bump-mapping), photo-realistic (e.g. fire, smoke, skin shader) and non-photorealistic rendering (e.g. hatching, painterly renderer) techniques, shadow generation (shadow volumes, shadow mapping). Real-time rendering techniques (e.g. LOD, culling), introduction in XNA.

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Introduction to fundamental techniques in computer vision. Localization and classification of 2D objects, shape descriptions, image matching, color and texture analysis, segmentation, invariant features, curve fitting, dynamic contours, feature detection and tracking, 3D geometry, camera calibration, scene and object reconstruction, self-localization, object recognition. Implementation of standard methods.

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Interaction of humans with complex systems often takes place within the broader context of a collaborative setting. Thus, there is an increasing trend for the design of these systems to incorporate and support group interactions. Emphasis will be on studying collaboration from an interdisciplinary perspective and deriving system design criteria. Topics will include group theories, collaboration requirements (including communication, coordination, team awareness), design and implementation of several prototypes based on interactive multi-touch displays, quantitative and qualitative research methods, including laboratory studies, surveys, ethnographic research methods, and collaboration technologies.

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Analyses, Interpretation and Syntheses of Speech, Interactive Speech Systems, Voice Portal, Speech-XML, Linguistics, Grammar

Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Computer game genres, general software architecture of games and interactive applications, software design patterns, architectural patterns, related algorithms and data structures, representation of entities and states, real-time processing of events, game physics, game specific artificial intelligence, architecture and integration of middle ware components like physics, graphics, sound, logic and artificial intelligence, quality assurance in game development, performance considerations.

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Game production workflow, asset integration, implementation of game-AI and 3D-physics simulation, special considerations for network games, sound and sound-effects in games, integration of mid-dleware APIs, scripting and data driven game development, software project management, software testing.

Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Modern Architectures of Hypermedia Applications, Enterprise Java APIs, Server-Side Frameworks (e.g. Spring-Framework, Hibernate) and Java-based Web Frameworks (e.g. Spring WebMVC, JSF, ...).

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Client-centric (RAD-) web-frameworks/publishing-platforms (eg. Ruby on Rails, OpenLaszlo, GWT, Apache Cocoon, Flex/Air), prin-ciples of web-enabling client/server-communications (AJAX/AHAH), remoting concepts (eg. REST, SOAP) and tools/libraries (eg. Web-Services, DWR), media-integration.

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Informationsarchitekturen, Smart search technologies, Web-APIs (Google, YouTube, eBay, Amazon etc.) und deren Nutzung für Mashups, Datenanalyse und -klassifikation (Data Mining), Anwendungen (z. B. individualisierte Empfehlungssysteme, Dokumentenklassifizierung und Filterung), Web Communities (Applikationsintegration und Schnittstellen), dynamische Navigationskonzepte (Tagging).

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Implementation of interactive media applications using modern real-time APIs for audio and video (Microsoft DirectShow, Microsoft Media Foundation, xine, GStreamer, Apple Quicktime). Media frameworks fundamentals and architecture, filter graphs, filters (data sink, data source, audio and video effects, codecs, demultiplexer, multiplexer), container formats, media formats, synchronization of media, transcoding, streaming, real-time signal processing. Implementation of real-time processing tasks on GPU hardware (CUDA, OpenCL).

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Integrierte Lehrveranstaltung / Wahlpflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

4,5

Prüfungsart:

Mündliche oder Schriftliche Prüfung

Inhalte:

Varying selection of current topics in Interactive Media such as:
• information visualization,
• high-performance online applications (high-load databases systems, partitionable / scalable / manageable server applications).
• digital terrain modelling,
• multiplayer online games,
• etc.

Semester:

1.Semester

Typ:

Projektstudium / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

9

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

Guided project work on topics provided by faculty members or proposed by the student. Working in teams (of size 2–4) is encouraged to foster project management and team collaboration skills. Each project is coached by at least one faculty member.

Semester:

2.Semester

Typ:

Projektstudium / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

9

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

Guided project work on topics provided by faculty members or proposed by the student. Working in teams (of size 2–4) is encouraged to foster project management and team collaboration skills. Each project is coached by at least one faculty member.

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Seminar / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

2

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

Introduction and practice of scientific research. Philosophy, rules and conventions of scientific work in science and engineering. Scientific analysis and argumentation, research, clear presentation of complex phenomena, design of experiments, levels of description, scientific language, use of formal descriptions, mathematical notation, falsification and verification. Forms of publications, use of scientific literature, common rules of publishing. Students are required to conduct and present (both written and orally) a solid literature review on a specific topic summarizing the state of the art in that area. The result should be a publishable report similar to a professional conference paper, both in content and formal quality.

Semester:

3.Semester

Typ:

Projektstudium / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

14,5

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

The project in the 3rd Semester is explicitly dedicated to the practical part of the Master thesis. The coarse aim and scope of the thesis should be clear at the beginning of this semester based on a well worked-out initial proposal. This project should provide sufficient time for orientation and additional research to refine the topic and for implementing the practical part of the thesis. In most cases this project is performed individually (exceptions are possible) and coached by the final thesis advisor.

Semester:

4.Semester

Typ:

Diplomarbeit / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

21

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

Thesis research and Master thesis. Every thesis is coached individually by a faculty member with regular obligatory meetings.

Semester:

4.Semester

Typ:

Projektstudium / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

6

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

Completion of the Thesis Project (practical part of the thesis).

Semester:

4.Semester

Typ:

Seminar / Pflicht

ECTS-Punkte:

3

Prüfungsart:

Immanente Beurteilung

Inhalte:

The purpose of this seminar is to present and discuss thesis-relevant issues in a larger group in regular sessions, exchange ideas, practice active and passive criticism and to prepare for the final thesis defense.