Keynote & Capstone




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Keynote & Capstone


Keynote: Visual-Interactive Data Analysis – Obtaining Insight into Complex Data
Using Interaction, Visualization, and Data Mining
Tobias Schreck, TU Graz, Austria

Abstract                                                        Biographie
Advances in data acquisition and storage technology             Tobias Schreck holds a Professor position with the
lead to the creation of increasingly large, complex data        Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Vi-
sets across application domains as diverse as science,          sualization at Graz University of Technology, Austria.
engineering, business, social media, or team sports             Between 2011 and 2015, he was an Assistant Profes-
analysis. Important user tasks for leveraging large,            sor with the Data Analysis and Visualization Group
complex data sets include finding relevant informa-             at University of Konstanz, Germany. Between 2007
tion, exploring for patterns and insights, and re-using         and 2011 he was a Postdoc researcher and head of
of data for authoring purposes. Novel methods in                a junior research group on Visual Search and Analy-
visual-interactive data analysis allow to tightly inte-         sis with Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
grate knowledge of domain analysts with automatic               Tobias Schreck obtained a PhD in Computer Science
data analysis methods, o↵ering solutions for complex            in 2006, and a Master of Science degree in Information
analysis problems. We discuss visual-interactive data           Engineering in 2002, both from the University of Kon-
analysis techniques from our work that support search           stanz. He works in the areas of Visual Analytics, 3D
and analysis in a variety of di↵erent data types and            Object Retrieval, and Digital Libraries. His research
novel application scenarios. These include approaches           interests include visual search and analysis in time-
for example- and sketch-based search in multidimen-             oriented, high-dimensional and 3D object data, with
sional data sets, exploration of patterns in social me-         applications in data analysis, multimedia retrieval
dia data, and visual analysis of soccer match data. We          and cultural heritage. He has served as co-chair for
also touch on novel methods to support the analysis             Posters, Workshops and Panels for IEEE VIS, as well
and restoration tasks in virtual archaeology. We con-           as a co-organizer for the EG Workshop on 3D Object
clude the talk by discussing research challenges in the         Retrieval in the past.
area.


Capstone: How to bring people to new worlds?
Andreas Jakl, Tieto, Austria

Abstract                                                        Biographie
Each tool modifies, extends or improves a tiny aspect           Andreas Jakl is working with mobile apps since 2004.
of our daily life. That’s the goal of every mobile app          As Mobility Expert at Tieto, he brings the business
– Augmented Reality and Wearables are just the most             partner’s vision of mobile strategies to life. Together
recent hypes. However: what are the possibilities to            with the mobility.builders Community, he is organizing
inject actually useful information into the world of the        the Mobile Developer After-Work events, where expert
user? The planning of remarkable apps that achieve              developers share their knowledge. As Microsoft MVP
exactly that does already start with the user experi-           (Most Valuable Professional) for Windows Develop-
ence and combines it in a novel way with other im-              ment, he publishes open source libraries for immersive
mersive technologies like location based services. We           technologies like Bluetooth Beacons and NFC.
will take a look at the recipes for success and inspiring
apps that managed to build this bridge!




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