Information – Infotainment – Autonomous Machines
High Tech Board Game – The first completely networked Scrabble gameFraunhofer IZM
Application Center Smart System IntegrationStand 03
A playstation or other game consoles without micro technology is no longer an option, but a lot of common board games still have to make do without any electronics at all. That might be the very reason why some people like to play them but imagine a Scrabble game with your potential high score on a screen according to the letters on your rack. While it sounds remarkable, it is rather complicated to manufacture, as all letters have to be located either on the board or on the rack and every player’s rack and the board have to be connected. Thanks to micro system technology all necessary components are packed both into the board and the rack. A proof of concept developed by the Application Center “Smart System Integration” is an electronically enhanced game of Scrabble with a visualization of every individual high score.
Contact:
Dipl.-Ing. Harald Pötter, harald.poetter@apz.izm.fraunhofer.de
COOPERS – Co-operative Systems for Intelligent Road Safety
Fraunhofer FIRST, BerlinStand 04
The EU-funded research project COOPERS aims at providing car drivers with up-to-date security-relevant information about the traffic situation and infrastructure. To do this, the road as well as the vehicles are being equipped with sensors and receivers and direct communication between vehicles and information services is being made possible. Some of the provided services are transmitting variable road signs, local traffic jam warnings and travel-time predictions based on short-term traffic situation forecasts. The project partners present future COOPERS application scenarios by means of a virtual test drive.
Contact:
Matthias Schmidt, matthias.schmidt@first.fraunhofer.de
IPTV Live Recommender
Technical University of Applied Science BerlinStand 08
During the consumption of live TV or video on demand media one can use parallel context based and user profile related recommendations of additional content, web services based content as well advertising for products and transaction services.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Robert Strzebkowski, robertst@tfh-berlin.de
Autonomous life form – robotosaurus PLEO builds a close and intimate relationship with people
UGOBE Software Innovation/Trademark Consulting GmbHStand 09
Pleo was developed particularly with regard to imitating lifelike, organic movements and behavioural patterns that allow him to establish a deep relationship to humans. With his almost 40 sensors - including infrared and acoustic stereo sensors - Pleo is in no need of a remote control and can interact autonomously with his owner and his environment. Thanks to UGOBE's "Life Form Operating System", Pleo is able to process the signals of several sensors at once. Hence, Pleo is able to convey emotions and to perceive himself and his environment. Together with the pan-European project LIREC that is engaged in robotic research, UGOBE presents software innovations for PLEO and embraces technology enthusiastic visitors.
Contact:
Carsten Bickhoff, bickhoff@trademarkconsulting.eu
Computer scientists as Knowledge gardeners, Sound analysts and HD digital filmmakers – Student´s showcase Knowledge, Networks and Media
Technical University of Berlin, tubIT, + University of Potsdam, Computer SciencesStand 13
SoniVis – Wiki-based Open-Source Software, self-organizing Knowledge
Management in virtual information spaces.
Ad-Hoc Networks/MPEG 7 – Sound classification at home and mobile ad-hoc
networking for multimedia teaching.
Dangerous/Delay – Film authors studying computer science show 2 digital media
productions in High Definition.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Rebensburg, klaus.rebensburg@tu-berlin.de
Award in support of “Women + Media Technology”
Stand 24ARD, ZDF, DeutschlandRadio and Deutsche Welle are launching an award that supports female graduates who are completing their final exams in technical studies and engineering courses. The award recognises outstanding final papers which examine the technical issues of audiovisual media production and media distribution. Altogether the awards are worth 12,000 euros.
Contact:
ARD/ZDF Förderpreis Frauen + Medientechnologie,
foerderpreis@wdr.de