Computer science students of the Cooperative State University of Loerrach are developing a solution of citizen participation using virtual reality meeting rooms. Therefore they created a set of different rooms as a browser based setup. These rooms can be used by the public administration to communicate information to the citizens as an easy usable solution. The rooms were implemented using the Unity 3D VR engine and the Oculus Rift VR headset. 3 types of rooms:Lobby: Presentation of different type of information (pictures, PDF, videos). Visitors can enter the room without registration anytime, no limit to the number of visitors.Presentation hall: A speaker is holding a presentation at a certain time, voice chat, visitors can enter the room without registration, no limit to the number of visitors.Meeting room/round table: a room…

Digitalisierung im Alltag Die Oberbadische, 16.07.2018 17:27 Uhr Link zum Artikel in der Oberbadischen Zeitung [caption id="attachment_559" align="alignnone" width="510"] Studenten der DHBW Lörrach und der Universität Basel bei der gemeinsamen Projektarbeit. Foto: zVg[/caption] Kreis Lörrach. Im Rahmen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie der Universität Basel und dem Studienzentrum IT-Management & Informatik der Lörracher DHBW entwickelte der Informatik-Kurs „Software Engineering“ von Dozent Marcel Matt eine wissenschaftlich verwendbare technische Infrastruktur zum Betrieb von Bots für Soziale Medien. Ein Bot ist ganz allgemein ein automatischer Account, der sich wie ein Mensch verhalten soll, heißt es in einer Mitteilung. Die Studenten des Masterseminars von Ina Dietzsch, Privatdozentin am Seminar für Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Basel, fungierten im Rahmen des Projekts „Das digitale Leben eines Bots. Ethnographische Erkundungen bei der Entstehung eines…

In cooperation with students of a master class of the University of Basel, computer science students of the Cooperative State University of Loerrach are developing an infrastructure for setup and administration of bots for the social media platform Twitter. This infrastructure will be used for an academic research project at the department for Cultural Anthropology which has the topics: "How do humans interact with bots" and "How to design an algorithm for bots". The program code will be implemented in Python.    For more information, please contact: PD Dr. Ina Dietzsch Seminar for Cultural Studies and European Ethnology University of Basel Rheinsprung 9/11 4051 Basel Switzerland Email: ina.dietzsch@unibas.ch  

Together with the students of the Cooperative State University of Loerrach, we develop a new kind of Beacon with additional functionalities. We call this device a "PiBeacon". A Raspberry Pi emulates a Beacon using his BLE module. The program code will be implemented in Python.

Our first project using the brand new Raspberry Pi 3 will go live next week. It is used to control a shopwindow display showing actual informations to the people outside. The Pi connects to the internet using the now integrated WiFi module and plays a Powerpoint Presentation  automatically after the start. The PPP is stored in the cloud using Microsoft OneDrive. After the start, the Epiphany webbrowser is started. The PPP is loaded by opening the "shared-link". This will open automatically PowerPoint Online. Issue: Powerpoint online will not start automatically a PPP in the presentation mode, that's a missing feature and we really don't understand why Microsoft doesn't implement that to Powerpoint Online. But we have a workaround: Using "xdotool" our script is sending simulated keystrokes to the browser which select…

We finished the development of an Android App Prototype: an distinct launcher for kiosk operation mode. Android 4.4.2, no alternative Android (as e.g. CyanogenMod), not rooted Now we enter into the next step to improve the prototype to bring it to maturity phase.