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Tallinn Universityinstitute of informatics

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Tallinn University

• Established in 2005– or 1919…

• 9500 students• 540 faculty• 66 bachelor, 80 master and 15 doctoral curricula• 11 international study programs• 20 institutes, 5 colleges• The fastest growing university in Estonia

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Tallinn University• Educational sciences• Humanities and Languages• Fine arts, dance, cultural studies• Law, business, political sciences• Natural sciences• Film and media• Social sciences• Sports, health and recreation• IT, library and information sciences


Institute of Informatics

• Department from 2001• Institute from 2008– Teaching staff– Centre for Educational Technology• Established in 1996 in the Faculty of Education• An R&D unit within the Institute of Informatics since

2005

– Interaction Design Lab• Established in 2009



• 1 Bachelor curriculum– Computer Science

• 4 Master curricula– Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments– Educational Technology– Management of Information Technology– Teacher of Computer Sciences and ICT Manager

• 1 Doctoral curriculum– Information Society Technologies


Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments

• IMKE• This is a two-year international new media

Masters program• It was designed for students with a strong

interest in interactive media and a background, in or related to:– Information and communication technologies– Communication studies – Communication design


IMKE

• It offers a unique opportunity to develop both theoretical and practical skills together with special insights into the nature of:– New media– Interaction design– Pervasive, ubiquitous, multi-modal, physical digital

environments– Digital ecosystems enabling individual and shared

knowledge construction in a variety of contexts


IMKE

• Graduates understand the range of interactive media systems, products and applications and are confident about coping with the constant change that characterizes working in the field of new media


IMKE• Introduction and Theoretical Foundations

of New Media• History and Visions of Interactive Media• Interface and Interaction Design• Experimental Input and Output• Accessibility, Usability, and User Centred

Design• Interactive Information Visualization• New Interactive Environments• Digital Interactive Audio• Research Methods• Media Project• Project Management• 21st Century Concepts of Information and

Meaning• Information Management• Digital Culture• E-Government

• Mobile Interactions • Game Interactions • Locative Technologies • Security and Privacy Matters• Ethics and Law in New Media • Interactive Television • Open Source Management• Basic Computer and Programming Skills

Up-date• Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce• Generative Content Creation • Ecology of Narratives • Designs for Learning • Philosophy of Cognition• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning• Virtual and Augmented Reality

Applications• Digital Knowledge Ecosystems


IMKE• Mobile Interactions • Game Interactions • Locative Technologies • Security and Privacy Matters• Ethics and Law in New Media • Interactive Television • Open Source Management• Basic Computer and Programming Skills

Up-date• Entrepreneurship and e-Commerce• Generative Content Creation • Ecology of Narratives • Designs for Learning • Philosophy of Cognition• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning• Virtual and Augmented Reality

Applications• Digital Knowledge Ecosystems

• Introduction and Theoretical Foundations of New Media

• History and Visions of Interactive Media• Interface and Interaction Design• Experimental Input and Output • Accessibility, Usability, and User Centred

Design• Interactive Information Visualization• New Interactive Environments• Digital Interactive Audio• Research Methods• Media Project• Project Management• 21st Century Concepts of Information and

Meaning• Information Management• Digital Culture• E-Government


Interface and Interaction Design

• Compulsory course for IMKE– 4 ECTS

• Run as 3 × 2 day workshop– students work on group projects– 30 hours workshop– 34 hours independent work

• Independent reading and book summary– 40 hours

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• Day 1 & 2– Creating personas, writing scenarios, evaluating

scenarios in a design session with stakeholders, writing user stories

• Day 3 & 4– Interaction design patterns, creating and testing paper

prototypes

• Day 5 & 6– Developing UI prototypes, writing a video scenario,

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Information Society Technologies

• This is a four years doctoral program, which aims to provide conditions for preparing specialists with the highest scientific qualification in the competence area of the institute:– Social media ecosystems in the context of e-learning, e-

governance, e-participation and network enterprise

– Interaction design

– Language technology


Information Society Technologies

• Admission – defense of a thoroughly elaborated doctoral project

• Students are– introduced to the international research community– involved in international R&D projects– (supposed to be) fully devoted to the studies


General challenges

• Both in our master and doctoral programs, we seek industry related:– Problems to be addressed – Co-supervising of master and doctoral projects– Funding for students

• And in general, we seek industry related:– Research and development partners from industry– Opportunities to develop shared courses


A Sample of R&D and Student Projects

• MATURE Widgets• IMKE Monster• Audioguide• mTLU


MATURE Widgets

• Social Semantic Technologies for Knowledge Sharing and Learning

• Widget Framework– Tagging, Collections, Search,

Discussion, Rating

• Social Semantic Backend– Semantic Network– Intelligent Recommendation

and User Modeling Services

• http://mature-ip.eu


IMKE Monster

• Informal aggregation page for IMKE• http://imke.waher.net


Audioguide

• A mobile tour guide


mTLU

• Scheduling information through a mobile device in two flavors– Web application– iPhone application


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