Andreas Butz received his PhD from the University of Saarbrücken in
1997. After 14 months as a PostDoc at Columbia University, New York,
he continued research in Saarbrücken, where he founded a spin-off
company in 2000 and served as its CEO for 2 years. In 2003, Andreas
Butz returned to academia with an Emmy Noether grant from the German
Research Council DFG. In 2004, he was appointed as a tenured professor
at the University of Munich, where he recieved the Alcatel Lucent
research award in 2007 for his research in the field of this talk.

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English

60 Minutes

Saarbrücken

As computers are becoming cheaper, faster and smaller, they start to
appear in a wide variety of form factors in our everyday
environments. The "Personal Computer" is slowly replaced by a
multitude of computationally enhanced objects and devices, and
computing becomes ubiquitous. One facette of this trend is the current
digitization of personal media, such as photos or music.

A well established interaction concept, such as the desktop metaphor
for the PC, is currently not in sight for this novel form of
computing, and our ways of interacting with digital media collections
have in some respects become poorer than the interaction with their
analog predecessors.

The Fluidum project (http://www.fluidum.org/) investigates interaction
concepts for ubiquitous computing in our everyday environments, and
the management of media collections provides many usage scenarios.
The talk will discuss, how this open and interdiscipinary field of research
can be explored, and it will present some of the project's results.

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