
Organization / Workplace
Vrije Universiteit BrusselLocation
Brussels Area, Belgium BelgiumOccupation
Professor at Vrije Universiteit BrusselIndustry
Education
Website
beatsigner.comAbout
Beat Signer is Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium, where he is co-director of the Web and Information System Engineering (WISE) laboratory. With his team he is investigating cross-media information spaces and architectures (CISA) and their use in information science, interactive paper, dynamic data physicalisation and tangible holograms, mixed reality as well as multimodal and multi-touch interaction frameworks. Thereby, they are developing innovative ways of representing and linking pieces of information across digital and physical information spaces based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel.