Walter Rafelsberger

Walter Rafelsberger is a researcher at MODUL Unversity Vienna, Department of New Media Technology. After passing his studies with distinction at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (MultiMediaArt), he worked for director Virgil Widrich as visual effects supervisor on the animated short "Fast Film" (www.widrichfilm.com/fastfilm). He has six years of working experience as self-employed artist, producer and consultant for media related productions and gathered a broad range of experience in the fields of visual effects and motion graphics, Web development and content management, as well as information visualization and interface design. With "sirup.tv" he was nominated for Austria's Prix Multimedia Innovation Award. His main research interest is computational information design in the context of knowledge and collaboration management.