Roland Mittermeir Award 2023 of the Faculty of Technical Sciences

We congratulate Franziska Hollauf, the winner of the Roland Mittermeir Award 2023, who impressed us with her Master’s thesis, ‘ Representation and Computation of Time-Cost Trade-offs for Composed Services.‘

The thesis can be accessed via the following link: https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubk:1-49104

The best Master’s thesis of all studies of 2023 was honored with the Roland Mittermeir Award at the Faculty of Technical Sciences. The Ceremony took place on November 28, 2024, together with the TEWI Best Performer Awards 2023/2024 in the Stiftungssaal at the University of Klagenfurt. The Förderverein Technische Fakultät (FTF) donated this monetary prize to honor the achievement of the award winner.

Employees, students, companions, and graduates of the University of Klagenfurt were invited to the award ceremony in the Stiftungssaal of the University of Klagenfurt. The prizes were presented by Michael Kollienz from Raiffeisenbank Kärnten, Chairman of the FTF, and Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

The FTF annually honors the best Master’s thesis with the Roland Mittermeir Award. Graduates from all technical disciplines can submit their Master’s thesis for this award, provided it has been graded as ‘excellent’. The Roland Mittermeir Award is endowed with 1,500 euros. In addition to the cash prize, the winner received a backpack sponsored by Raiffeisenbank Kärnten and filled with goodies from the University of Klagenfurt.

More about the event and all winners: https://www.aau.at/blog/best-performer-awards-2023-2024-der-fakultaet-fuer-technische-wissenschaften-und-roland-mittermeir-preises-verliehen/

Best Performer Awards 2023/2024 of the Faculty of Technical Sciences

We congratulate Julian Lechner BSc., who works as a study assistant in our research group, Information & Communication Systems, to the Best Performer Award 2023/2024. The best students in the technical degree programs at the University of Klagenfurt were selected for the Best Performer Awards. The ECTS credits and grades of all assessments of an academic year were counted to evaluate academic performance. The prizes, 500 euros per award-winner, were donated by the Förderverein Technische Fakultät (FTF) and the Faculty of Technical Sciences. Julian Lechner BSc. performed best in the Bachelor’s degree program 2023/2024 in Applied Computer Science.

Staff, students, and graduates of the University of Klagenfurt were invited to the award ceremony on November 28, 2024, in the Stiftungssaal of the University of Klagenfurt alongside the award winners and their companions. The prizes were presented by Michael Kollienz from Raiffeisenbank Kärnten, Chairman of the FTF, and Prof. Bernhard Rinner, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.

More about the event and all winners: https://www.aau.at/blog/best-performer-awards-2023-2024-der-fakultaet-fuer-technische-wissenschaften-und-roland-mittermeir-preises-verliehen/

Stephan Pölzl completes his Master’s studies

The Department of Informatics Systems congratulates Stephan Pölzl on his successful defence of his Master’s thesis and completion of his studies!

In his Master’s thesis “Investigating Users’ Mid-Air Spatial Memory” (supervised by David Ahlström) Stephan Pölzl explores the potential of in-air pointing as an input technique in head-mounted display settings and how well people can point at and select invisible targets located in the air in their surroundings. In Stephan’s user experiment, participants used a VR/AR head-mounted display and learned and memorized in-air target locations in repeated practice rounds. After the practice rounds, the participants had to point at and select the corresponding in-air locations without seeing the targets. On average, participants could estimate the correct (invisible) target locations with 10-12 centimetres accuracy.

Stephan Pölzl’s work and findings contribute to a better understanding of people’s (in-air) pointing abilities, which in turn can help when designing future pointing-based applications for head-mounted displays.

Presentation of the BPMN-Chatbot at BPM’24 in Krakow

PIC: Aya Mohamed Abdelaziz Safan BSc

The BPMN-Chatbot is an LLM-based tool for conversational process modeling developed at ISYS/ICS. The tool allows users to create Business Process Models interactively using text or voice input. It was presented by Aya Safan during the demo session of the BPM conference in Krakow. The BPM conference series is considered the most prestigious forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management. The general approach for efficient, conversational process modeling behind the tool, including an evaluation of its outstanding efficiency and correctness, was presented at the BPM NLP4BPM Workshop by Julius Köpke.

Publications:

Köpke, A Safan, Introducing the BPMN-Chatbot for Efficient LLM-Based Process Modeling, in: BPM 2024 Demos, 2024
Köpke, A. Safan, Efficient LLM-based conversational process modeling, in: NLP4BPM Workshop at BPM 2024, 2024

Tool Homepage:

https://isys.uni-klu.ac.at/pubserv/BPMN-Chatbot/