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Milestones 1975-2005
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- 1975: During secondary
school, my first interest
developed in technological basics of communication and information technology
(radio and television, electronics, first contact with primitive computers and great interest for
"Multimedia"). My whole pocket money was spent on components :-)
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- 1978: Choice of obvious profession available at this time,
was as a radio and television Technician, as it was the nearest to practical "Multimedia
Technology" at this time. Great interest in digital electronics. 1980, first contact with the
Sinclair ZX 80 (Z80A CPU, 4Kbyte ROM with BASIC-Interpreter, 1Kbyte RAM,...).
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- 1982: The Commodore C 64
(Processor 6502, resolution 320x200
pixel,16 colours and 64Kbyte RAM (!)), enables me to write my first "programmes for
learning purposes" in BASIC. The opportunity to learn by using computers fascinated
me and I could not get it out of my mind for the future. A further highlight at this time
is the SID (Sound Synthesizer Chip) Multimedia with the computer !
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- 1983: The first contacts to IBM-PCs
(XT, 8088, 640K RAM, two
360K 5 ˝" floppies, Bernstein-Monitor :-( and 1984 with Apple-Computers (Apple
lle,
MOStek 65C02 Processor, 1MHz, 128Kbyte "enhanced"), 32Kbyte ROM, 8
Slots,
560x192 Pixel (bw), 140x192 Pixel in 16 colours, 40, 80 characters/line in enhanced mode).
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- 1985: The C64 was
removed, as the IBM AT (80286) with
harddisk and 1,2 MB floppy was available permanently to me.
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- 1987: It was my conviction that user
interfaces, such as the
Windows surface (Windows 2.0), would intersperse themselves. During the study of
electrical engineering at the University of Technology, I had my first contact with
FORTRAN, PASCAL and Modula-2. Enthusiasm of the hypertext idea. However, the
necessity of combining technology and human aspects emerged that
time.
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- 1993: Enthusiastic of the possibilities of the expanding
Internet and the increasing performance of the hardware and software in general (Windows
3.1 with sound), created further interest to use the computer as a teaching
medium.
Increasing interest followed from it in the fields of psychology and
media-pedagogics. I
also recognized the Cognitive Science as interdisciplinary cooperation of computer
science, neuroscience and psychology in an ideal work field, in order to do
interdisciplinary research in the field of the information systems.
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- 1996: The tremendous success of the Internet, increasing
hardware (Pentium Processor) and software performances (Windows NT) and the increased
importance in teaching and learning was proven to be correct.
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- 1998: Concentration on the subject information systems with
research topics on human-computer interaction (HCI), Multimedia and Internet in which the latter
two has to be divided into technology, learning and design (refer to Research Interests).
Depending on the available hardware (beginning in
1980!) in each case I came from BASIC to PASCAL and to MODULA-2 and furthermore up to
C++ . My favourite programming
language now is JAVA, which
attracts me even more and more (But even annoys me sometimes ;-) It is also very
exciting programming in Mathematica.
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- 1999: Extension of the consolidated research interests of
the application for medicine. Austrian expert (National expert) in the
e-Europe - e-Learning Initiative (Comm. Viviane Reding), Task Group:
Educational Multimedia (Head: Maruja Gutierrez-Diaz); Expert and
Reviewer for national and international Institutions including
Industry.
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- 2000: Lisbon Delegate. Elected as external expert to the steering group of
the initiative „New Media in Teaching at Universities and
Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria (NML)“ Official
nomination by the federal Minister on 1st July 2000. Mission
statement: Research and Consulting to realize easier, simpler and
faster usable Information Systems. Strongly committed to
Human-Centered Design. Problemsolver in Content-, e-Learning and
Information Management.
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- 2003: Conferment of the venia docendi (Associate
Professor) for the subject „Applied Information Processing“ ,
Faculty of Informatics at Graz University of Technology.
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- 2005: Elected Chair of the Workgroup Human-Computer
Interaction and Usability Engineering (HCI&UE) of the Austrian
Computer Society (OCG). Founder of the Special Interest Groups
HCI4MED and HCI4EDU. Founder of the annual USAB Conference Series.
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