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IT i Civilingeniørspeciale i Byggeledelse/IT in Building Management. 2001

IT Tools - Multimedia & Knowledge Management


Goal: The goal of the 'IT in the Building Process - IT-tools' course is to mediate understanding of methods and technologies for computer supported collaborative work, team work, graphical decicion support and multimedia human machine interface design, as well as mediation of knowledge about how the future services, systems, and infrastructures for information transfer (knowledge management) can be built and integrated.
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Placement: 		This 2 modules course is one of 2 with emphasis on IT during the semester 8Master of IT in Building Management education (calender).
Content: Explaining Knowledge Management.
Principles for meta structuring in web based structures, development of communication support services, knowledge access, case based reasoning and common work on digital models.

Graphic editing. Interactive film tools.

Multimedia, MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)

Principles and technologies for computer supported collaboration and competence cooperation.
Properties of IT-tools for collaboration.

Standards and protocols to support HCI and collaboration.
Design of Multimedia and HCI, Human Computer Interaction, tools. Principles, guide-lines, Contextual design, authoring tools, use of metaphores, story telling, decision support, incremental prototyping,...)

Virtual Reality systems. Virtual reality markup language - VRML, collaboraion in Virtual Reality environments, Web-database integration.

Usability testing of HCI tools.

Methods and tools for undertaking change process analyses and implementations.
Formulation of IT-strategies.

Mini-project

During the course a miniproject, COMKIT, will be carried through in the student groups. A WWW-based prototype system COMKIT, that will support system collaboration and knowledge management within a company with distributed offices will be designed and built. (Collaboration and Knowledge Management Support with ICT, COMKIT).

The system shall

  • provide an interactive map over system tools/ artefacts (properties, context where they can be used)
  • support personal communication and use of shared workspaces

The following domains will be covered during the miniproject

  • contextual design methodology
  • human computer interaction, HCI, and user interface design
  • usability testing
  • knowledge management fundamentals
  • distributed collaborative work spaces

The system shall be available from the WWW and The following ICT, Information and Communication Tools, shall be covered during prototype design and development

  • 3DStudio Viz to produce an interactive WWW-accessible VRML model
  • 3DStudio Max and 3dCult to produce an interactive 3dCult model
  • Macromedia Director 8
  • QuckTime VR interactive image software
  • Adobe Premier to produce web accessible streaming video
  • Adobe Photoshop for image editing
  • Adobe Acrobat Distiller and Exchange to produce interactive PDF documents
  • Netmeeting to establish shared workspaces


References. Further reading under each lecture.

Examination: Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.
Examination will take place at Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, Media Lab, Monday June 11 , 2001, at 0830 a.m. group 2.124 and 10.30 group 2.126. Censors are Per Christiansson and Kjelds Svidt.

Group project web sites;

Participants: The students come from semester 6 of the civil engineering program. Here you get access to their exercises/mini-project from this semester 8 2001.
(See alo the students mini project from semester 7 Virtual Building)

Teacher
- Prof Per Christiansson, lecturer, project tutorand and course responsible







1. EXPLAINING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Friday February 2, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.

Explaining Knowledge Management.
Principles for meta structuring in web based structures, development of communication support services, knowledge access, case based reasoning and common work on digital models.










2. COLLABORATION TOOLS

friday February 9, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Principles and technologies for computer supported collaboration and competence cooperation.
Properties of IT-tools for collaboration.








3. MULTIMEDIA DESIGN AND HISTORY. USER MODELS

Friday February 16, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Design of Multimedia and HCI, Human Computer Interaction, applications.

Principles, incremental prototyping, demonstrator development, collaborative multimedia design, use of metaphores, story telling.

Multimedia authoring tools.

Multimedia, MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)








Click on the image for a high [4.9 Mb] resolution interactive harbour image or here for low [1.7 Mb] resolution.

4. GRAPHIC TOOLS

Friday February 23, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University. http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

This lecture and exersice focus on fundamentals for capture, storage, editing and presentation of graphics and images. Focus is on

  • image and graphic formats
  • image compression
  • bitmaped versus vector graphics
  • color palettes and graphic quality
  • graphic editing tools





5. WEB-3D. Building Virtual Worlds

Friday March 2, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Virtual Reality systems. Virtual reality markup language - VRML, collaboraion in
Virtual Reality environments, Web-database integration.
VR-Center Nord.

6. CONT!

Friday March 16, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Simple VRML editor. Shapes, textures.
3D VRML models from photos.
Concerting from different formats to VRML format.


Click on the image for interctive access.







7. STORY TELLING AND VIDEO

Friday March 23, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Multimedia, MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)







8. DIGITAL VIDEO EDITING. STREAMING

Friday March 30, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 13.00 - 1500.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

We follow up the video story telling part with methods and techniques for digital video editing and distribution.

Hands-on training on Adobe Premier and Apple Imovie.




9. USABILITY ENGINEERING

Friday April 6, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

We explore the field of Usability Engineering including usability testing of HCI tools and interfaces to application systems. Central issues are system user characteristics, user requirements capture, design and prototyping, and evaluation.

10. CONT!

Wednesday April 18, 2001.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Work on Mini-project and special issues (IT-strategies).





Per Christiansson