Sehr geehrte VRCA-Mitglieder,
die medizinische Fakultät stößt derzeit eine Fundraising-Initiative für die Etablierung eines Zentrums "Simulation in der Medizin" an. Dieses Zentrum soll primär exzellente Forschung auf diesem Gebiet durchführen. Es soll aber auch eine personelle und maschinelle Infrastruktur zu Ausbildungszwecken sowie zur ärztlichen Weiterbildung geschaffen werden.
Die Initiative wird vom Dekan der medizinischen Fakultät, Herrn Prof. Rudolf Lütticken, und von Herrn Prof. Rolf Rossaint, Leiter der Anästhesiologie sowie Prorektor der RWTH, vorangetrieben und befindet sich in einer ersten Phase der Grobkonzeptionierung.
Die weltweiten Aktivitäten im Bereich der Simulation in der Medizin zeigen auf, dass die Virtuelle Realität hierfür eine wichtige Basistechnologie darstellt. Auch Projekte an der RWTH zur virtuellen Chirurgie und Neuropsychologie konnten dies bereits untermauern. Aus diesem Grund möchte ich Sie fragen - auch im Namen der Herren Lütticken, Rossaint sowie Herr Bernd Grohs, der in seiner Eigenschaft als Fundraising-Beauftragter des Rektors die Initiative koordiniert - ob Sie an der Konzeptionierung des Zentrums partizipieren möchten.
Mit freundlichem Gruß
Torsten Kuhlen
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Dr. Torsten Kuhlen (Dipl.-Inform.)
Head VR Group, RWTH Aachen University
CEO Virtual Reality Center Aachen
Center for Computing & Communication, Room 2.08
Seffenter Weg 23, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Phone +49 241 80-24783, Mobile +49 175 2609784
Email kuhlen(a)rz.rwth-aachen.de, Fax +49 241 80-22134
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/vr
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Sehr geehrte VRCA-Mitglieder,
untenstehende an das VRCA gerichtete Partnersuche der Universität Wien für
ein EU-Projekt habe ich gestern erhalten. Ich möchte Sie bitten mich kurz zu
informieren, falls Sie sich für eine Mitarbeit in diesem Projekt
interessieren.
Besten Gruß
Torsten Kuhlen
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Dr. Torsten Kuhlen (Dipl.-Inform.)
Head VR Group, RWTH Aachen University
CEO Virtual Reality Center Aachen
Center for Computing & Communication, Room 2.08
Seffenter Weg 23, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Phone +49 241 80-24783, Mobile +49 175 2609784
Email kuhlen(a)rz.rwth-aachen.de, Fax +49 241 80-22134
http://www.rz.rwth-aachen.de/vr
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Subject: EU Project "European Collaboration World (ECW)": Invitation to
participate as Partner
Dear Sirs,
the University of Vienna, Austria, is currently proposing a STREP project
within the 4th IST Call of the 6th framework of the European Union (2.5.9:
Collaborative Working Environments; Focus 2: Research on tools for
collaborative work in rich virtualized environments). In our search for
European partner organizations we came across your institution and would
like to invite you to participate in this proposal. As non-European
organization you could participate via European acencies.
The project ECW (European Collaboration World) aims at the development,
implementation and validation of the worldwide first integrative fully
immersive 3D collaboration world application which can be used by any user
to collaborate in a total immersion 3D live online collaboration environment
steering his own person´s live representation with latest developed gaming
technology as e.g. cyberspace glasses and gloves. ECW realises modern
collaborative work concepts integrating already existing most innovative
technology from different innovative collaboration and elearning areas.
The objective is to support companies with an easy-to-use, natural 3D
interface that allowes autonomous and individualized synchronous and
asynchronous collaboration at work basing on animation technology of modern
computer games. Please see project details and partner profiles in the
appended document "ECW-Project-Description-Partners.doc".
If you feel your organization fits one or more of the profile descriptions
please contact us and let us know in what way and which part of the proposed
project you would like to participate.
The submission deadline for this call is September 21st 2005. Alternatively
to the STREP we think about starting the project in an already existing big
integrated environment (Media@Work IP project, info:
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/atwork/work_paradigms/am
i_family/index_en.htm) or, in 2007, in a different EU program. It is also
worth discussing about the development of a full immersive elearning
environment within another EU program in 2007 (in 2006 no technology
programs will be offered). The participation in the Integrated Project will
primarily depend on if we will be able to have a sound technical concept for
full immersive collaboration in the next 6 weeks. Thinkable is also to
develop only the basic full immersion technology now within the already
existing IP project and the whole collaboration environment as described in
the project description in a further project. You are free to expand the ECW
concept with your ideas and to put yourself into responsible and creative
positions in the project. As mixed reality and/or games specialist you are
very welcome to take over technical leadership building up the whole
technical team as Technical Coordinator (see project description). If you
are a company: we are eager to tailor our project to your specific needs. Be
invited to share in future collaboration technology!
If we apply as STREP, we will focus on open source (PHP, Java; see project
description). As part of an IP we most likely won´t have open source and
cannot decide about technology ourselves. Therefore please contact us
independently from technology, whenever the basic concept appeals to you.
We would love to collaborate with or to be integrated into already existing
STREP or IP projects as partners, also apart from "European Collaboration
World". As Institute for Media Pedagogy we are especially interested and
experienced in collaboration and elearning concepts and evaluation.
In the first step please send a short profile including information about
(1) your organisation, (2) your aims, (3) your role in the project and (4)
your experience with international projects.
If you have any further questions regarding the project, please do not
hesitate to contact us immediately (contact person: Ilona Hündgen).
If you are not responsible for our EU project, please forward this mail to
the appropriate department(s) of your organization. Feel free to contact
external partners if they could fit to the team. Thank you very much!
Looking forward to hearing from you.
With kind regards
Ilona Hündgen
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Dr. Ilona Hündgen
e-Learning Consultant
Karlstraße 122
80335 Munich
Mobile: +49-(0)160-92056806
Telephone: +49-(0)89-51514963
Email: ilona.huendgen(a)web.de
Web: http://www.ilona-huendgen.com
Skype: ihuendgen
University of Vienna
Department of Educational Sciences
Institute of Media Pedagogy
Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr. Ch. Swertz
Garnisongasse 3/13
A-1090 Vienna
Web: http://www.univie.ac.at/Erziehungswissenschaft