Student projects

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Bastian Dänekas, Nima Zargham

Team sports such as soccer, handball, or field hockey have a common requirement: game understanding. In addition to high physical, technical, and mental preparations, they demand players to have a good understanding of space. This includes understanding their position on the field, their teammates, their opponents, and their movements. Moreover, environmental factors such as weather and lighting might impact players' decision-making and the course of the game. Professional teams regularly practice specific game situations to prepare for an actual condition in games. Nevertheless, certain real events are often difficult to simulate in training (e.g., simulating environmental factors).
Mixed reality (XR) could enhance these practices by allowing players to view the playing field from different angles and analyze recorded moves for improvement. The Master project "FieldFusion" will explore how XR and sensing technologies can create simulations that closely resemble actual game situations to prepare players for such events. To participate in this project, students must have successfully completed the "Applied Computer Science in Sports" course. This full-time Master's project (40 hours per week) will last one semester with 30CP. Students are advised not to take any other courses while participating in this project. This project is available for the Master's programs "Digital Media" and "Computer Science (Informatics).

Advisor: Dr. Robert Porzel, Dr. Susanne Putze, Rachel Ringe

The student project MapLab is a virtual workplace where users can distance themselves from everyday disturbances. It is based on a virtual office, which can be accessed from anywhere to implement and plan everyday office activities as well as projects. Functions for creating and editing virtual 3D mind maps and writing and drawing on paper or whiteboards were implemented for this purpose. In addition to that, the user's environment can also be personalized.

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Advisor: Dr.-Ing. Tanja Döring, Dr. Thomas Muender, Michael Bonfert

The student project WindyMill was designed as part of the bachelor thesis Haptic Fidelity in the summer semester 2022. To make virtual reality more haptic, the students developed a prototype to simulate air flows in VR using fans.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka

As part of the AI-SIGS research project, the student project AI-FIT is researching the extent to which the free decision-making of storytelling within an exergame through the execution of different sports exercises has an influence on game fun, effort and motivation.

Advisor: Dr.-Ing. Nina Wenig, Dmitry Alexandrovsky

The aim of the project was to jointly develop a new approach to the topic of university and, for example, to show where university is
with a: game or chatbot.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr.-Ing. Nina Wenig

The bachelor project Elephanture took place in the summer semester 2020 and dealt with integrating new AI algorithms into a text-based game to motivate the user and generate new answers.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr. Susanne Putze, Dr. Dmitry Alexandrovsky

The full-time master project 'Tangible Sandbox Games' of the Digital Media Working Group deals with creative and playful interaction with sand in VR.

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Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr. Robert Porzel, Sebastian Höffner, Dr. Johannes Pfau

In the LOGOS project, the students designed a programme in which natural language instructions are used to equip virtual living rooms with furniture.
To do this, sentences such as 'Put the table next to the shelf' or 'Put the lamp in the middle of the room' must be analysed and implemented meaningfully.

The student project TEAG is part of the research project MAL and investigates how gamification in the form of avatars, story and multimodal interaction can improve the user experience of learning applications.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, Dr. Thomas Muender

In the PreVIZzARt project, the students developed an augmented reality, a game-based and a motion capture application for the pre-visualisation of virtual scenes.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr. Tarek Besold

The bachelor project Computational Creativity took place in the summer semester 2017. The focus was on the procedural generation of creative content for video games. The result was the computer game Mariad, which is based on various methods for procedural content generation.

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S. P. Y is a sci-fi virtual reality exergame (a motion-controlled game with physical exercises) that helps preventing and treating back pain.

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Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gabriel Zachmann, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Herrlich

The IVOR project developed an interactive virtual operating theatre (IVOR) for developing, testing and trialling novel interaction methods such as foot and hand gestures.

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka, Dr. Frank DyllaIm, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marc Herrlich

As part of the student project 'Interaction in the operating room', the participants looked for alternative forms of input and found them in foot interaction. Various prototypes for foot controls emerged from the project, e.g. via a mouse embedded in the shoe or via pressure sensors in special insoles.

The concept of the interactive prototype LIVA follows the traditional teaching principle in which teachers record and visualize their content dynamically with blackboard and chalk. This principle is digitally prototyped and extended with new technologies.

In the Movirwelt project (= mobile virtual worlds), a mobile Android game is being developed in which the player can create a personal avatar.

Sportal is an exergame add-on for the popular first person computer game Portal 2. Players control the avatar with body movements such as running and jumping.

Der Grundgedanke des Projekts Showtime unterliegt der Interaktion analoger Bühnendarstellung und computergestützter, technischer Möglichkeiten der digitalen Darbietungen.

The morph! project transformed lifeless, drab places and buildings into an interactive experience to force engagement with the surroundings and social environment.

The Serious Games Master Project deals with the creation of computer games for people suffering from Parkinson's disease.

The EffAct project was born in the inter-university Digital Media Bachelor's programme in Bremen. For one year, a team of ten students worked on blurring the boundaries between acting and technology to develop a new intermediate medium.

The central concept of the "embodiment" of interaction with computers is to make use of the specific meaning of human interaction in the respective context in order to enable intuitive operation.

BlendaX was created as a student idea. Based on the open source software Blender, it is intended to deal with graphics and interaction. Possible ideas are mixed reality forms of interaction for easier input of...

Keywords such as mobile, interactive and location-based already describe the finished product "Bremen Inside" in a nutshell. The goal of Bremen Inside is to develop a mobile city portal for Bremen. The university campus can also serve as the first test environment.

In a year-long project, students explored diverse approaches to enriching the performances of musicians, dancers and actors using the latest technology.

Field Fusion (WiSe 2023/2024)

X-Alltag (SuSe 2023)

Haptic Fidelity in Virtual Reality: WindyMill (SuSe 2022)

AI-FIT (WiSe 2021/2022)

50 Years University Bremen (SuSe 2021)

Elephanture: Text-based AI-Game (SuSe 2020)

Tangible Sandbox Games (WiSe 2019/2020)

LOGOS (SuSe 2019)

TEAG: Tangible and Embodied Algebra Games (WiSe 2018/2019)

PreVIZzART (SuSe 2018)

Computational Creativity (Mariad) (SuSe 2017)

Adaptive Exergames (S.P.Y.) (WiSe 2016/2017)

IVOR - Interactive Virtual Operating Room (SuSe 2016)

InterOP: Interaktion im Operationssaal (SuSe 2015)

LIVA: Live Interactive Versatlie Animation

MovirWelt

Sportal

Showtime

morph!

Entertainment Computing: Serious Games

EffAct

Embodied Interaction

BlendaX

Bremen inside

Perform!