Seminars in the Summer Term

The "Seminar Multimedia Kommunikation" (formerly known as "Seminar Communication Systems and Multimedia") is a seminar for students of Electrical Engineering (and related study programs, such as WI-ET) as well as students of both IST and computer science.

It is focussed on acquiring scientific working skills and applying methodologies, and targets to enable students to understand, transfer, and present complex scientific material. Strong emphasis is hereby put on reading scientific papers and articles, writing a scientific seminar paper, as well as presenting the results..

All further information and the topic areas are available at our seminar page.

Seminar Digital Storytelling

The seminar Digital Storytelling covers different scientific aspects in the broad spectrum of Story-based Edutainment applications, Digital Educational Games and Serious Games.

Concrete examples include, but are not limited to Story Models and Storytelling Systems, Authoring Tools and Environments, Personalization and Adaptation, Collaborative Learning, Seamless Learning Integration and Seamless Assessment, Game Mastering in Multiplayer Games, (Digital Educational) Games and Social Networks, Exergames and Games for Health.

Procedure: At tuesday, April 12th, 11:40 - 13:20, room S3/20, 4 (seminar room, ground floor at Rundeturmstr. 10), the topics are presented and assigned to/elected by the participants of the seminar. Each topic is processed by one student and supervised by one scientist of the Serious Gaming group at TUD/KOM. During the semester, the students acquire knowledge about the topic (by reading scientific papers and analysing existing best-practice solutions/applications) and prepare a state-of-the-art analysis (-> document). Additionally, at the end of the semester, the results are presented to all seminar participants (-> presentation, ~15 minutes).

Requirements: Interest in the topic(s). Since it is a very interdisciplinary field, not only Computer Scientists (INF) and WInf, but also students settled at ETIT, WI-xy, Humanities (Pedagogy, Lehramt, Psychology, Sport Science) and any other faculty are welcome.

Further info: Seminar homepage, stefan.goebel(at)kom.tu-darmstadt or serious-gaming(at)kom.tu-darmstadt.de.

Seminar Offers in the Winter Term

Proseminar ETiT

The Promseminar ETiT (TuCaN ID 18-sm-1000-ps) addresses B.Sc. students of Electrical Engineering disciplines and covers various topics from the fields of computer science and electrical engineering.

All further information is available through the Proseminar ETiT homepage.

Seminar Advanced Topics in Future Internet Research

The Seminar Advanced Topics in Future Internet Research (TuCaN ID 18-sm-2090-se, listed as "Seminar Multimedia Kommunikation II") addresses diploma and M.Sc. students of all electrical enginnering and computer science disciplines. It is also open to students of related courses of study, such as WI-ET or Wirtschaftsinformatik.

The seminar covers various topics from the fields of computer science and electrical engineering, wtih a focus on the Internet and Internet-based technolgies. The course specifically investigates current and upcoming trends which are expected to be of utmost importance for the future evolution of the Internet itself and other technologies that rely on it.

All further information is available through the Seminar Advanced Topics in Future Internet Research homepage.

Seminar Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming

The Seminar Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming (TuCaN ID 20-00-0624-se) addresses diploma and M.Sc. students of all electrical enginnering and computer science disciplines. Topics include but are not limited to

•     Foundations of Peer-to-Peer-Systems
•     The peer-to-peer system BitTorrent
•     Video Coding (AVC, SVC)
•     IP-TV vs. Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming
•     Topologies for Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems (Mesh vs. Tree vs. Multi-Tree)
•     Resilience of Chunk Scheduling Strategies
•     Popular Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems
•     Incentive mechanisms for cooperation in Peer-to-Peer Streaming Systems
•     Management of the Playout Buffer
•     Content-centric Networking for Video
•     Video Coding of 3D Streams.

This is a joint seminar with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Effelsberg, Prof. Dr. David Hausheer, and Prof. Dr. Thorsten Strufe.

We will meet in room S 202/C 110 (Piloty building) on October 21, 2011 for the assignment of the topics.

Languages are English and German.

All students are welcome.

All further information is available through the Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Seminar homepage.