Junior Alpbach – Science and Technology for Young People
3D Projection Mapping aka. Spatial Augmented Reality is a technique to give new meaning to real structures and transform them into a carrier medium by using video projections. In this one-day workshop the participants will have the opportunity to experience conceptual and manufacturing aspects of this technique in an applied process.The result of the workshop will be the presentation of a jointly designed anamorphous media installation in the style of a diorama.By playing with perspectives the motto of this year’s European Forum can be visually experienced.
Participants: Only children of participants of the Technology Symposium aged 13 to 17 years or children that have special invitations from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Women’s Affairs.
Please note: limited number of participants, registration necessary!
Information and registration: Karin Kohlfürst, T +43 (664) 340 20 71, E karin@highent.org
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Kathryn LIST
Member of the Council, European Forum Alpbach, Graz
Mag. MA Barbara WEITGRUBER
Director General, Scientific Research and International Relations, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Vienna
Barbara Weitgruber was founding staff member and Director of the Office for International Relations and lecturer at Karl-Franzens Universität Graz and then Director of the Office for European Educational Co-operation of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service in Vienna. In December 1994 she joined the Austrian Ministry in charge of higher education and research as Director and later became Deputy Director General for Higher Education and Director General for Scientific Research and International Relations. Weitgruber holds a Master degree in English/American and Interdisciplinary Studies, a Certificate in Mass Media and a Translator´s Diploma in English from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and an M.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois in Chicago where she started her professional career as a Fulbright Scholarship Holder and Teaching Assistant. She is - among others - member of the Task Force for Research, Technology and Innovation of the Austrian Federal Government, the Austrian Fulbright Commission, the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, the European "Research Policy Group" and chair of the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria. |
Dr. Konstantin MITGUTSCH
Affiliate Researcher, MIT Game Lab, MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Founder and Managing Director, Playful Solutions, Vienna
2004-2009 | Scientific Assistant, Lecturer: Department of General Education & Media Education, University of Vienna |
2009 | Max Kade Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Education Arcade, Cambridge, MA |
2010-2013 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT GAME LAB and Singapore-MIT GAMBIT, Cambridge, MA |
2011 | Visiting Professor, Department of Education, University of Vienna |
since 2014 | Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna |
Founder and Managing Director, Playful Solutions, Vienna |
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Martin MURER
Research Fellow, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg
2006-2007 | Research Associate, Viennese Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology |
2008-2015 | Research Fellow, HCI Unit, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg |
2013 | Visiting Researcher, MOBILE LIFE, Stockholm University |
since 2015 | Senior Scientist, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg |