Creativity and Technology (Kreativität und Technik)
Gitta Domik, Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn
email: domik[at]uni-paderborn.de
homepage of author:
http://www.cs.uni-paderborn.de/index.php?id=209&L=1
homepage of courses (in German):
http://www.cs.uni-paderborn.de/de/fachgebiete/ag-domik/lehre/projektgruppen/projektgruppe-kreativitaet-und-technik.html,
http://www.cs.uni-paderborn.de/de/fachgebiete/ag-domik/lehre/vorlesungen/ss03-kreativitaet-und-technik.html
paper: Creat-Comp.pdf
- Title of course: "Creativity and Technology" (Kreativität und Technik)
- Aimed at what category of students: Computer Science students (Graduate level) and Media Study students (all levels)
- Educators: CS department
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Who is teaching: Gitta Domik
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Goal of course(s):
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The goal was to have students of different disciplines work on the same project.
In order to be able to communicate with each other, though coming from a different knowledge background, the students needed a common “language”. This was accomplished by using the same multimedia tool (SIMBA) to teach both kinds of students, but teaching them at different levels of depth.
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Prerequisites: Computer Graphics courses for CS students; no prerequisites for Media Study students
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Topics for lectures:
- definitions of computer-generated visualization
- history of computer-generated visualization
- data and data models
- user and tasks
- mapping techniques from data to pictures
- complex presentation techniques
- creativity and computing
- color models (only for Media study students)
- Maya (by Alias) (only Media study students)
- Flash and Shockwave (both by Macromedia) (only for Media study students)
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Topics for seminar (only for CS students):
- multitude of topics on 3D Web Technology
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Topic for project (CS students and Media students together):
- build a client-server based tool for remote visualization based solely on open source technology
- test with data set modeling a terrain, including simulated data of wind direction, pressure, humidity, and temperature for each defined volume position in space over the terrain and over time
- build graphical elements to aid interpretation of CS project data
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Teaching software:
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The author built and used SIMBA, an educational tool based on multimedia concepts to teach and learn key concepts of Computer Science. A subset of SIMBA (“SIMBA - computer pictures” / ”SIMBA - Computerbilder”) focuses on computer-generated visualization and computer-generated color and was used with different depth levels (go into deeper levels for CS students, stay at the upper levels with non-CS students) to teach lectures for both categories of students.
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- Special Applications: The project evolved around Environmental Sciences
- Language: Mostly in German