Simon G. Wiest

Background

  • 1993-98 Diplom-Ing. (FH) for audiovisual media at the Stuttgart university of applied sciences for print and media (FH Stuttgart, Hochschule für Druck und Medien)
  • 1995/96 One-year stay abroad at Boston University and San Francisco State University
  • 1996 Internship at Alias|Wavefront, Germany
  • 1997 Internship at SZM studios/ProSieben München (3D computer animation department)
  • 1999 Multimedia-Transfer '99 Award for "Rado Z.", an interactive learning environment
  • 1999 Animago Award '99 (education/film compositing) for "Der Fleck" (a SciFi short movie; thesis project)
  • Since February 1999 research assistant at the Department of Computer Architecture of the University of Tübingen
  • Jan./Feb. 2001 Summer Associate at McKinsey & Company (Business Technology Office Germany)

Research interests

  • Multimedia environments for teaching & learning

Current projects

  • Integration of text book and interactive simulations in the field of evolutionary algorithms (projects Bioinform@tik, Sioux)
  • Automated generation of metadata for digital audio documents (project Auritus).

Publications

Darstellung perimetrischer Befunde auf mobilen kabellosen Geräten mit dynamisch generierten Grafiken.
Clemens Jürgens, Holger Ulmer, Simon Wiest, Ulrich Schiefer, Andreas Zell
To be presented: GMDS Annual Meeting, Münster Germany, Sep. 2003. To be published in: Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie in Medizin und Biologie.
Automatic Audio Thumbnail Positioning Using Self-Similarity
Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell
In Ebroul Izquierdo (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th European Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) 2003, World Scientific, London, pp. 302-305.
Automated classification of perimetric records on mobile wireless devices
Clemens Jürgens, Simon Wiest, Ulrich Schiefer U, R. Burth, Andreas Zell
European Journal of Medical Research 7(Suppl. 1): 36, 2002.
Displaying perimetric records on mobile wireless devices
Clemens Jürgens, Simon Wiest, Ulrich Schiefer U, R. Burth, Andreas Zell
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 240(Suppl. 1), 2002. DOI 10.1007/s00417-002-9605-8.
Darstellung perimetrischer Befunde auf mobilen Ausgabegeräten. Ophthalmologe 99(Suppl. 1): p105, 2002.
EduBeans: Efficient development of interactive instructional exhibits leveraging a multi-layered, component based framework
Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell
In Proceedings of "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication" (ED-MEDIA) 2002, 24.-30.06.2002, Denver/USA, pp. 2056-2057
SCANNmobile - eine Java-basierte mobile Entscheidungshilfe für die Perimetrie.
Clemens Jürgens, Simon Wiest, Ulrich Schiefer, R. Burth, Andreas Zell.
To be published in: Jäckel (Hrsg.) Telemedizinführer Deutschland, Ausgabe 2003, Bad Nauheim.
Improving Web Based Training Using an XML Content Base
Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell
In Proceedings of "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication" (ED-MEDIA) 2001, 25.-30.06.2001, Tampere/Finnland, pp. 2045-2050
[PDF] (215 kB)
XML in Web-Based Training: Workflow and Opportunities
Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell
In Proceedings of "Computer-Based Learning in Science (CBLIS) 2001, 07.-12.07.2001, Brno/Czech Republic
An example of generating Internet-based course material
Igor Fischer, Simon Wiest, Andreas Zell
In D. Kalpic, V. Dobric (Editors), Proceedings of the 22nd Intl. Conf. Information Technology Interfaces ITI 2000, June 13-16, 2000, Pula, Croatia, pp. 229-234
[PDF] (76 KB)
Virtuelle Fliegenschwärme aus dem Rechner. Photorealistische Simulation von Insektenschwärmen mit geringen Hardware-Anforderungen.
Simon Wiest
in "Fernseh- und Kinotechnik (FKT)", 12/1999, pp.762-767
[PDF] (3,08 MB)

Address, phone and fax number, email

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur
Sand 1
D - 72076 Tübingen
 
Germany

Phone: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 77176
Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091
Email: wiest@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
PGP-FP: BE67 7E4D D827 C72A FBFF B5D8 05E1 5ED9 4A40 59E4