DMT Exhibits @ FH JOANNEUM

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  • discover IT

    discover IT

    Exhibition Medienkunstlabor, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria [2007|05] Students of the Institute of Information Management realized creative and interactive multimedia projects for the exhibition “discover IT”. The exhibits from the special field DMT were exposed from 24th till 27th May 2007 at the Kunsthaus Graz. From a visual drum session with sound cubes, a laser harp without strings…

  • Over the Edge of a Plate – Cooking Game

    Over the Edge of a Plate – Cooking Game

    Permanent exhibit & exhibit for travelling exhibitionLocation traveling exhibition: “Hotel Global” [website]Location permanent exhibit: Zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur GmbH [website] An interactive exhibit with the subject „Healthy Diet” was developed in cooperation with the Graz Children’s museum „FRida & freD“ for “Zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur”. The “eatable zoo” is located on the manufacture’s area, it is a creative organic…

  • Love of Reading

    Love of Reading

    Love of reading – the travelling exhibition for reading and hearing with six exciting story for four different age groups. From first readers to adults, everybody is able to experience interactive stories and to solve quizzes by using the Ravensburger tiptoi pen. Partner: Province of Styria, Graz Children’s Museum FRrida und freD, Mit Loidl oder…

  • NXP Smart City

    NXP Smart City

    NXP is one of the leading producers of RFID and NFC technology. The various capabilities of NXP products are shown in this project by using a city metaphor. The Smart City is presented at different exposition, for example the Cartes in Paris. Smart City consists of three areas: transportation, city center and suburban area. RFID/NFC…

  • NXP Train

    NXP Train

    The Styria company NXP is specialist in the sector of RFID technology. Various possibilities of NXP products in the field of transportation are shown via the NXP Train. It is a contactless controllable demo with two Märklin model railroads. This train demo for the purpose of showing the performance of NXP ticket solutions is used…

  • Carriage Simulator

    Carriage Simulator

    Permanent exhibit: Spanish Riding School Lipizzaner Stud Piber, Köflach [website] While sitting on a carriage, made of iron and wood, you are able to steer horses with reins through the landscape. For the exhibit a real carriage and real reins are used as interfaces. The implementation emphasized on realistic horse’s reactions. The landscape resembles the Weststyrian…

  • Coin Magnifier

    Coin Magnifier

    Permanent exhibit: Eggenberg Palace Coin Cabinet, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz [website] The treasures of the Eggenberg Palace Coin Cabinet are multimedia-based tangible while looking through the interactive magnifiers. The Coin Cabinet of the Universalmuseum Joanneum in the Eggenberg Palace stores more than 70.000 coins and ducats. In almost 500 years old rooms, unique treasures are restaged with…

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

    Permanent exhibit: Styrian regional exhibition “Ways to Health”, Bruck an der MurExhibit for the travelling exhibition “Experience Networks”, ScienceCenter Netzwerk, Vienna [website] The exhibit „Social Networks“ illustrates the value of connections between each other and allows to strain own networks and was developed in cooperation with the Graz Children’s Museum FRida & freD for the Styrian regional exhibition in…

  • Fax Station

    Fax Station

    The fax station illustrates digital data transmission for children and teenagers. This exhibit was developed in cooperation with the company HolliNetz consulting for the initiative KET – Kinder erleben Technik (Children experience technology), to visualize binary communication. Two touchscreens, which are built into Plexiglas boxes, act as sender and receiver of a message. When a…

  • Speaking Torso

    Speaking Torso

    Permanent exhibit: House of Science, Graz [Website] The speaking torso allows teenagers with the Ravensburger tiptoi technology to learn more about their body. Instead of studying books about the human organs, the Ravensburger tiptoi pen allows to directly interact with the organs. The speaking torso supports discovery learning. Besides spoken explanations it offers a playful…

  • Intervertebral Disk

    Intervertebral Disk

    Travelling exhibition: MS Science The exhibit to the topic intervertebral disk deals with the widespread disease dorsal pain. An innovative, multimedia information system shows the reasons for problems with intervertebral disks and how they can be identified and treated. The MS Science visits with an exhibition, which also includes two exhibits developed by FH JOANNEUM, Institute…

  • Hazards in Blood

    Hazards in Blood

    Travelling exhibition: MS Science An innovative, multimedia information system with the title „How thrombocyte influence our blood?” shows with video clips and animations which roles are played by thrombocytes during injuries and thromboses. The MS Science visits with an exhibition, which also includes two exhibits developed by FH JOANNEUM, Institute of Information Management in cooperation with…

  • Magellan’s Journey

    Magellan’s Journey

    Exhibition „Globetrotter“, Frida & freD – Graz Children’s Museum, Graz [website] Be a sailor and discoverer once in a lifetime! With the exhibit “Magellan’s journey” this childhood dream can come true. Children go on a tenderly animated journey with the discoverer Magellan. The ship has to be steered with the wheel to hold the right course.…

  • Further Emphases

    Further Emphases

    In addition to interfaces and exhibits or whole exhibitions for museums, the special field DMT engage in the following fields of research and development:

  • Showroom

    Showroom

    Do you want to experience and interact with the exhibits of the special field digital media technologies?No problem! Visit us in our showroom at the FH JOANNEUM. To get an impression of our showroom in advance, we invite you to a virtual tour:Virtual tour through the showroom

  • Information Material

    Information Material

    You can find video clips of DMT projects on our YouTube Channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/fhJoanneumDMT Current events are presented on our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/DigitalMediaTechnologies Further information can be found on this website or in our folders:Folder “Interactive Multimedia_Exhibitions and Showrooms”  [PDF]Folder “Exhibits & Exhibit Management” [PDF]Folder “Digital media Technologies” [PDF]

  • Team

    Team

    FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Alexander NischelwitzerHead of the special field Digital Media Technologies DI (FH) Sandra SchadenbauerLecturer Gerhard Sprung, MScSenior Lecturer DI (FH) Robert StrohmaierLecturer

  • Mission Statement

    Mission Statement

    The special field Digital Media Technologies (DMT) of the Institute of Business Informatics and Data Science at the University of Applied Sciences FH JOANNEUM Graz develops multimedia implementations for different fields of application. The DMT team is active in numerous projects with multimedia interactive installations and stations for museums and exhibitions. Visit our showroom at…

  • Usability

    Usability

    Macines are getting more and more complex – whether it is about TVs, computers, mobile phones, cars or microwave ovens. The interface between human and machine should allow us a problem free interaction with the devices. The serviceability of a human-device-interface is called usability. We investigate with different methods the usability of hardware and software,…

  • Watchdog

    Watchdog

    Our Watchdog controls and monitors a single exhibit of an exhibition. It reports the xCocos Server and accepts commands from the server. All programs, which are necessary for the exhibit, are started up by Watchdog, at the same time it opens a connection, so that the xCocos server is able to request the station’s state.…

  • xCocos Server

    xCocos Server

    The xCocos (eXhibition Control and Configuration System) server is used for controlling, maintaining and data saving for cross-linked exhibitions with distributed interactive exhibits. xCocos shows how many and which exhibits are active in the exhibition. All exhibits can be remote controlled with TeamViewer. For example, the server starts up and shuts down the stations. All…

  • Visitor Experience

    Visitor Experience

    The members of the DMT team perceive visitor experience as multidimensional. Our know-how shows that an exhibition with outstanding hands-on and minds-on exhibits is a great base for visitor experience. But a well-engineered high-tech exhibits isn’t useful, if usability hasn’t been integrated from the beginning of the development process. It is necessary to identify target…

  • 3D Visualization

    The special field Digital Media Technologies of the Institute of Information Management offers a wide range of services in the area of 3D. Besides simple 3D models and visualizations, we plan, design and produce interactive, virtual scenes and worlds, games and simulations. Furthermore, we use the newest technologies and approaches for human-computer interaction. We provide…

  • Audio Production

    We record audio with the highest quality in our recording studio. Voice recordings can be done with ideal sound and without noise interferences.

  • Video Production

    We produce video clips for interactive exhibits, for web presences as well as infomercials in our own facility. WE have a fully equipped green box and use state-of-the-art video equipment, for example to record in real 3D.

  • Multimedia Developement

    Whether the development of a single exhibit or the implementation of a hole exhibition – the special field digital media technologies is your professional partner in the area of multimedia development. With our long-lasting expertise in teaching, research and development we can offer the total package including state-of-the-art user interaction design, usability, user experience, accessibility,…

  • Kinect for Windows

    With the Kinect for Windows, it is possible to control interactive exhibits with the human body. We created a socket to communicate with the Kinect, which provided the data in an XML-format. For example, the Kinect is used in the projects NXP SmartCity (interactive flight through a city with RFID demos), WISP (multimedia information with…

  • GameTrak

    GameTrak is a 3D input device to capture 3D positions and movements. It is an attractive input device due to its little costs and the great power spectrum for applications in 3D and 2D. For example, GameTrak is used in projects in the field of game based therapy. It is the ideal input device to…

  • Augmented Reality

    Real and virtual rooms are merging in augmented reality (AR) applications. A good example for an AR application in the context of exhibitions is the Magic Book (exhibitions “The Human” and “discoverIT”). The information – which is printed in a real book – is used to enhance the book with 3D visualizations.

  • Arduino

    Customized exhibits for exhibitions and museums often need customized input devices. The Arduino microcontroller offers an open source hard and software platform, and allow the development of input devices for nearly every purpose. The ideal input device is -especially in the context of exhibits for exhibitions and museums with the demand for hands-on experiences – one major…