Steffi Beckhaus
- Email:
- steffi.beckhaus (at) uni-hamburg.de
- Phone:
- +49 40 42883 2427
- Room:
- D-231
- Consultation-hour:
- by arrangement
Professional career
- since 2004
- Professor at University of Hamburg (W1, Juniorprofessor), head of im/ve group
- 2002-2004
- research assistant, Fraunhofer IMK
- 1997-2001
- research assistant, GMD IMK
- 1994-1997
- IT consultant and engineer, Ing. Buero Messing, Essen
- 1991-1993
- physics engineer, S. A. S. Systems, Essen
- 1989-1991
- research assistant, S. A. S. Systems, Essen
Research interests
- see im/ve website and below
CV and current work
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steffi Beckhaus is Juniorprofessor at University of Hamburg since february 2004. The focus of her group interactive media / virtual environments is on innovative Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Environments, Computer Graphics, Media Art and Storytelling.
Until March 2004 she worked as a research scientist at the Competence Center Virtual Environments at Fraunhofer IMK. Areas of research at IMK were Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interface Design, Storytelling, and Virtual Showcases. She was project leader at IMK for the BMBF project alVRed, and was involved in the projects VRIB and the EU project "Virtual Showcase". Work experience in the Industry include 3 years part-time work at a research company for sound analysis and design. Following, she spent five years at an information technology consulting company, working in the fields of IT consulting, planning, and programming, with an emphasis on database applications
She holds a B.S. in Physical Engineering from the University of Essen (1991), and a Masters Degree in Computer Science (1993) from the University of Newcastle in Tyne, England. In 1997 she joined Ph.D Program at GMD.IMK, and 1999 startet working in the Virtual Environments (VE) Group. Her work, "Dynamic Potential Fields for Guided Exploration in Virtual Environments" was supervised by Prof. Thomas Strothotte at ISG, University of Magdeburg and by Prof. Heinrich Müller, University of Dortmund (2nd supervisor). In September 2002 she was awarded her Ph.D. in Magdeburg. For her thesis, she received the "Fakultätspreis 2002" of the faculty of computer science of Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg and the "KTW Software Award 2003", a PH.D award for women in IT.
Among other things, she is currently reviewer for the EU, for journals like Virtual Reality, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and conferences like IEEE Virtual Reality (PC), ACM CHI, TEI, Virtual Storytelling, ISMAR, Intetain, Computer Science and Magic, and Edutainment. She co-organized conferences (GCDC, CSAM), workshops (Mensch&Computer - Kooperative Spiele, Innovative Computerbasierte Musikschnittstellen, GI - Workshop Methoden und Werkzeuge zukünftiger Computerspiele), and the exhibition "Entgrenzung: Digitale Kunst zwischen Algorithmik und Interaktion" in Linz. She is co-editor of the Virtual Reality Journal special issue "CVEs for Creative People" and a special issue on "playful computing" of the journal i-com . Besides paper presentations on conferences she was invited to give talks at TU Graz, DAIMI Aarhus, Lomonosov Moscow State University, IMIS Lübeck, and Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, and a keynote talk at Mensch&Computer 2005. In 2004, she together with Ernst Kruijff gave a course on "Unconventional Human Computer Interaction" at Siggraph, Los Angeles. Her own art work and jointly conducted art & science projects with students were exhibited at Siggraph Art Gallery, Ars Electronica Festival, and in Kunsthalle Bremen. The latest project Granulatsynthese received the Eurographics John Lansdown award for interactive digital art and was exhibited at the TEI 2008 conference in Bonn. Currently, 8 diploma students and 2 phd students work with her, together forming the im/ve group.
Teaching
Lectures
Projects
Projects
Virtual Reality
- im/ve lab
- Interaction with Dynamic Objects
- Interactive Atmospheric Effects
- Advanced Computer Graphics
- ACTIF - interACTor centric Interaction Framework
Human Computer Interaction
- ChairIO
- Interaction with Dynamic Objects
- Olfactory Display: Using smell in VEs
- Sonification for Real-Time Analysis of Infrasound
- GranulatSynthese
- The Card Box at Hand
- Media Art Overview
- IR LED
- ACTIF - interACTor centric Interaction Framework
Student class projects
- Joining Real and Virtual - Interactive media 2005/2006 Mixed Reality projects
- Joining Real and Virtual - Interactive media 2006/2007 Mixed Reality projects
- Advanced Computer Graphics
- Interactive 3D Systems: Project results 2004
- Virtual Reality Projects: Navigation Toolkit with new techniques (2005/2006), interactive Worlds and Interaction Toolkit (2006/2007)
- ACTIF - interACTor centric Interaction Framework
Interactive Experiences
Publications
You'll find a complete listing on the publications-page