1. Tallinn University
institute of informatics
June 8, 2011

2. 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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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. Institute of Informatics
• 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
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6. Institute of Informatics
• 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
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7. 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
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. 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
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11. 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
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12. 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
• http://imkedesign.wordpress.com
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13. Interface and Interaction Design
• 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
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14. Interface and Interaction Design
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15. 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
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16. 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
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17. 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
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18. A Sample of R&D and Student Projects
• MATURE Widgets
• IMKE Monster
• Audioguide
• mTLU
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19. 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
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20. IMKE Monster
• Informal aggregation page for IMKE
• http://imke.waher.net
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23. Audioguide
• A mobile tour guide
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25. mTLU
• Scheduling information through a mobile
device in two flavors
– Web application
– iPhone application
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