Former members
Fan Bai was engaged in the Ontoverse Project and developed a collaborative Ontology Editor, which resulted in the implementation of a SWAT based Java-Applet, allowing collective generation and administration of ontologies such as group awareness and concurrency control. Besides the Ontoverse Project, he also worked on smartTree — a Java component visualizing hierarchical structures.
Zoulfa El Jerroudi's research interest included the development of innovative interactive and visual analysis-techniques, which can be used to facilitate comparing and merging ontologies. Her main focus lay on tracing down the merging-process for the user, as well as the exploration of comparable outcomes on dynamic visualizing components. She received a doctoral degree in 2009, the title of her dissertation was "Eine interaktive Vorgehensweise für den Vergleich und die Integration von Ontologien".
Philipp Heim's main research interests included intelligent visualization techniques. In the research project SoftWiki he was responsible for visualization and exploration of large and complex RDF-datasets. He developed gFacet — a graph-based facetted RDF-browser.
Eike Lang was engaged in the development of ontology-based engineering of context-adaptive web applications and the automated generation of user interfaces based on semantically annotated web services.
In the WISE project, Steffen Lohmann worked on knowledge management components. Later, he was responsible for community-oriented requirements engineering, knowledge management and visualization in the SoftWiki project. Besides that, he conducted research in the area of the social semantic web.
Markus Specker took interest in exploring Human Computer Interaction Patterns. In order to improve the usability and to promote the handling of these patterns, he worked on a taxonomy for HCI patterns.
Taking part in the Ontoverse Project, Peter Hüsken worked on interactive visualization of ontologies. His interests also included common synchronical and asynchronical ontology-patterns.
Joachim Wolfgang Kaltz joined the chair of interactive systems in 2003. He was primarily engaged in engineering methods for adaptive, context-aware web applications. In 2006, he received a doctoral degree on his dissertation "An engineering method for adaptive, context-aware web applications".
