Thomas Seifried

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Thomas Josef Seifried, MSc
Date of Birth: December 8th 1981, Ried i.I., Austria
Tel: +43 650 77 65 392
e-Mail: thomas.seifried[at]fh-hagenberg.at

EDUCATION

10/2007 - current
PhD candidate, Institute for Telecooperation
Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

10/2005 - 09/2007
Master of Science in Engineering, Digital Media
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
Graduation passed with high distinction

10/2002 - 09/2005
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Media Technology and Design
Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
Graduation passed with distinction

09/1996 - 06/2001
HTL for EDP and Organisation (HTL = Secondary Technical Collage)
(www.htl-leonding.at), Leonding, Austria
Graduation passed with distinction

WORK EXPERIENCE

10/2007 – current
Research Associate
Media Interaction Lab, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
(mi-lab.org)

02/2005 - 07/2005
Student Intern
Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Christchurch, New Zealand
(www.hitlabnz.org)

10/2001 - 09/2002
Alternative military service
Youth Center STUWE, Linz, Austria
(www.stuwe.at)

2000 - 2003
System and Network Assistant
AREV, Linz, Austria (part-time)
(www.arev.at)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses: (Media Technology and Design, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg)

10/2007 – current
Computer Graphics (OpenGL, C++)

Courses: (Digital Media, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg)

02/2008 – current
Advanced Computer Graphics (XNA, C#)

Tutor: (Media Technology and Design & Digital Media, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg)

10/2004 – 02/2007
Computer Graphics (CGR), Applied Software Development (ASD), Introduction to Databases (DAB), Advanced Computer Graphics (ACGR)

SKILLS

General

  • User Interface Design
  • Computer Graphic Development
  • Web Development
  • Video Editing and Encoding

Programming

  • Work experience with:
    C++, C#, C, PHP, Javascript, Typoscript, Perl, SQL (MySQL), OpenGL, XNA, WPF, HTML, CSS
  • Familiar with:
    Java, Actionscript, QT, Tablet PC API, OOXML

Software

  • Multimedia and 3D: Adobe Photoshop, Gimp, Inkscape, Autodesk Maya, Macromedia Studio
  • Development Environments: MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, vi
  • Video: Adobe Premiere Pro, AV Encoding (MPEG4 ASP and AVC)
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Language

German, English

AWARDS

  • RTT Emerging Technology Contest 2008
    Winner (FLUX)
  • Europrix Top Talent Award 2006:
    Nominee “Content Tools & Interface Design” (Shared Design Space)
  • Europrix Top Talent Award 2005:
    Winner “Content Tools & Interface Design” (Coeno)
  • Media Gala 2006:
    Winner “Media Technology” (Shared Design Space)
  • Austrian State Prize for Multimedia & e-Business 2005:
    “Jury Award” (Coeno)
  • Europrix Top Talent Award 2005:
    Winner “Content Tools & Interface Design” (Coneo)
  • Media Gala 2004:
    Winner “Media Technology” (Future Office)

PUBLICATIONS

Reviewed and Invited Publications

Seifried, T., Jervis, M., Haller, M., Masood M., Villar, N., 2008.
Integration of virtual and real document organization. In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, pp. 81-88, February 2008.

Haller, M., Brandl, P., Leithinger D., Leitner J., Seifried T., 2007.
Large interactive surfaces based on digital pens. In Proceedings of the 10th Interantional Conference on Humans and Computers, HC-2007, Düsseldorf, Germay, pp. 172-177, 2007 [INVITED PAPER]

Haller, M., Brandl, P., Leithinger D., Leitner J., Seifried T., Billinghurst, M. 2006.
Shared Design Space: Sketching ideas using digital pens and a large augmented tabletop setup, in ICAT 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4282, Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 948-959, 2006.

Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P., Zauner, J., Billinghurst, M. 2006.
The Shared Design Space, in ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, August, 2006, Boston, USA.

Haller, M., Billinghurst, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., 2005.
Coeno, Enhancing face-to-face collaboration, in 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2005, Dec. 5-8, 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand.

Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., 2005.
Coeno-Storyboard: An Augmented Surface for Storyboard Presentations, in Mensch & Computer 2005, September 4-7, 2005, Linz, Austria.

Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried ,T. 2005.
An augmented surface environment for storyboard presentations, in ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Poster Session, August, 2005, Los Angeles, USA.

RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Reviews

  • Conference on E-Learning and Game - Edutainment 2008
  • 7th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR 2008