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[me in front of the new university building in Hagenberg]

Education:

  06/2010 - current PhD, Media Arts and Sciences
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Graduate student at the Tangible Media Group.

Daniel Leithinger, May 2007
  09/2008 - 06/2010 Master of Science, Media Arts and Sciences
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Graduate student at the Tangible Media Group.

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

  09/2006 - 01/2007 Erasmus Exchange Student, Medialogy
• Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
  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.

  09/1994 – 06/1999 Secondary Technical College for Food Technology (HTL)
(http://www.htllmt.at) Wels, Austria
Graduation passed with distinction.

Work Experience:

  06/2010 - current Researcher
Disney Research, Pittsburgh
  02/2008 - 08/2008 Research Engineer
Interactive Multimedia Laboratory, NUS, Singapore (http://www.iml.org.sg)
• Interaction Design and Programming for City Planning Space
  11/2007 - 01/2008 Research Intern
Interactive Multimedia Laboratory, NUS, Singapore (http://www.iml.org.sg)
• Interaction Design and Programming for Shared Design Space 2
  08/2007 - 09/2007 Student Intern
FH OÖ Forschungs & Entwicklungs GmbH (Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences Research & Development Ltd.), Hagenberg, Austria (http://www.fh-ooe.at)
• Development of interactive exhibits.
  02/2005 - 07/2005 Student Intern
Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Christchurch, New Zealand (http://www.hitlabnz.org)
• Development of content for the "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" exhibition
  at the Science Museum in Boston using 3D Studio Max 6 with Character Studio 4

  07/2004 - 09/2004 Programmer
Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria (http://futurelab.aec.at)
• Development and startup of the interactive installation “Gullivers World”
  for the Ars Electronica Museum in Linz
• Programming in C++ and OpenGL with Visual Studio .Net
  06/2001 - 09/2002 Web Developer
MAVI International Vogel OHG, Schlierbach, Austria (http://www.mavi7.de)
• Developing concept and design specification and programming of business websites
• Programming multimedia CDs using Director and Flash
  02/2000 - 03/2001 Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
Holocaust Memorial Center, Detroit, MI (http://www.holocaustcenter.org)
• Carrying out various tasks for the centers archive like writing
  documentations and summaries of oral history interviews
• Administration of the Centers PC network and websites
• Training of staff members in various Windows applications (Office, Photoshop)

Teaching Experience:

  02/2009 - 05/2009 Teaching Assistant in New Paradigms in HCI
MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• (MAS.672) New Paradigms in HCI
  01/2008 - 04/2008 Tutor in Digital Media Technologies
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• (EE3701) Digital Media Technologies
  03/2006 - 06/2006 Tutor in Computer Graphics
Media Technology and Design, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg
• (CGR/MTD215) Computer Graphics: Introduction to 3D Graphics and OpenGL


Skills:

  Programming:
• Work experience with: C#, C++, ActionScript, OpenGL, GDI+, WPF, XNA
• Familiar with: Java, PHP/MySQL, TypoScript, Lingo
• Development Environments: Visual Studio 2005, Eclipse
  Software:
• Multimedia and 3D: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Studio MX, 3D Studio Max 7
• Video: Avid XPress DV, Premiere Pro 7.0, Encore DVD

Publications:

  2010 Leithinger, D. and Ishii, H.
Relief: a scalable actuated shape display.
In Proceedings of the Fourth international Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 24 - 27, 2010). TEI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 221-222.
(DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709928)
  2010 Zigelbaum, J., Browning, A., Leithinger, D., Bau, O., and Ishii, H.
g-stalt: a chirocentric, spatiotemporal, and telekinetic gestural interface.
In Proceedings of the Fourth international Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied interaction (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, January 24 - 27, 2010). TEI '10. ACM, New York, NY, 261-264.
(DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1709886.1709939)
  2009 Kestner, J., Leithinger, D., Jung, J., and Petersen, M.
Proverbial wallet: tangible interface for financial awareness.
In Proceedings of the 3rd international Conference on Tangible and Embedded interaction (Cambridge, United Kingdom, February 16 - 18, 2009). TEI '09. ACM, New York, NY, 55-56.
(DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1517664.1517683)
  2007 Leithinger, D., Haller, M.
Improving Menu Interaction for Cluttered Tabletop Setups with User-Drawn Path Menus,
in Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP'07), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 121-128, 2007.
(DOI= http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TABLETOP.2007.24)
  2006 Haller, M., Brandl, P., Leithinger D., Leitner J., Seifried T., Billinghurst, M.
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.
(DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11941354_20)
  2005 Haller, M., Billinghurst, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T.
Coeno, Enhancing face-to-face collaboration,
in 15th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, ICAT 2005, Dec. 5-8, 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand.
(DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1152399.1152408)

Demos:

  2010 Leithinger, D., Ishii, H.
Relief,
TEI 2010, January 25-27 2010, Cambridge, US.
(TEI 2010)
  2009 Leithinger, D., Adam, K.
Relief,
Ars Electronica Festival 2009, September 3-8 2009, Linz, Austria.
(Ars Electronica Festival)
  2009 Kestner, J., Leithinger, D., Jung, J.
Proverbial Wallet,
TEI 2009, February 17-19 2009, Cambridge, UK.
(TEI 2009)
  2008 Leithinger, D., Tedjosumoku, J., Zhou, S.
City Planning Space,
RTT conference, April 2008, Vienna, Austria.
(link to RTT)
  2007 Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P.
Shared Design Space,
net.culture.space, July - August 2007, Vienna, Austria.
(net.culture.space)
  2006 Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P.
Shared Design Space,
ARS Electronica Festival 2006 - Pixelspaces, September 2006, Linz, Austria.
(Ars Electronica Pixelspaces)
    Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P., Zauner, J., Billinghurst, M.
The Shared Design Space,
in ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Emerging Technologies, August 2006, Boston, USA.
(description at acm.org)
  2005 Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T.
Coeno-Storyboard: An Augmented Surface for Storyboard Presentations,
in Mensch & Computer 2005, September 4-7 2005, Linz, Austria.
(download here)
    Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried ,T.
An augmented surface environment for storyboard presentations,
in ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Poster Session, August 2005, Los Angeles, USA.
(description at acm.org)

Awards:

  • RTT Emerging Technology Contest 2008 Winner (City Planning Space)
• Laval Virtual ReVolution Award 2007 Winner (SDS)
• Europrix Top Talent Award 2006: Nominee Content Tools & Interface Design (SDS)
• Media Gala 2006: Winner Media Technology (SDS)
• Austrian State Prize for Multimedia & e-Business 2005: Jury Award (Coeno)
• Europrix Top Talent Award 2005: Winner Content Tools & Interface Design (Coneo)
• Austrian State Prize for Multimedia & e-Business 2005: Overall Winner (Gullivers World)
• World Summit Award 2005: Best of 2005 in e-Entertainment (Gullivers World)




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