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[me in front of the new university building in Hagenberg]
Education:| 10/2005 - 09/2007 | Master of Science in Engineering, Digital Media • Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria Graduation passed with high distinction. |
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| 09/2006 - 01/2007 | Erasmus Exchange Student, Medialogy • Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 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. |
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| 09/1994 – 06/1999 | Secondary Technical College for Food Technology (HTL) (www.htllmt.at) Wels, Austria Graduation passed with distinction. |
Work Experience:
| 02/2008 - current | Research Engineer Interactive Multimedia Laboratory, NUS, Singapore (http://www.iml.org.sg) • Interaction Design and Programming for City Planning Space |
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| 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 |
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| 02/2005 - 07/2005 | Student Intern Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Christchurch, New Zealand (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 |
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| 07/2004 - 09/2004 | Programmer Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria (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 |
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| 06/2001 - 09/2002 | Web Developer MAVI International Vogel OHG, Schlierbach, Austria (www.mavi7.de) • Developing concept and design specification and programming of business websites • Programming multimedia CDs using Director and Flash |
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| 02/2000 - 03/2001 | Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Holocaust Memorial Center, Detroit, MI (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:
| 01/2008 – current | Tutor in Digital Media Technologies Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore • (EE3701) Digital Media Technologies |
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| 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 |
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| 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:
| 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. (description at ieee.org) |
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| 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. (description at springerlink.com) |
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| 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. (description at acm.org) |
Posters and Conference Demos:
| 2007 |
Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P. Shared Design Space, net.culture.space, July - August 2007, Vienna, Austria. (link to net.culture.space blog) |
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| 2006 |
Haller, M., Leithinger, D., Leitner, J., Seifried, T., Brandl, P. Shared Design Space, ARS Electronica Festival 2006 - Pixelspaces, September 2006, Linz, Austria. (link to Pixelspaces program) |
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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) |
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| 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) |
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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:
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• 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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