Hannes Kaufmann

Angestellt, Associate Professor for Virtual Reality, Interactive Media Systems Group at Vienna University of Technology

Vienna, Österreich

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Hannes Kaufmann

  • Bis heute 12 Jahre und 9 Monate, seit Sep. 2011

    External Lecturer

    Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences

    Teaching the master course "Augmented Reality" for 'Mobile Computing' master students.

  • Bis heute 18 Jahre und 9 Monate, seit Sep. 2005

    Associate Professor for Virtual Reality

    Interactive Media Systems Group at Vienna University of Technology

    Managing 6 research projects (3 EU FP7, 3 national), building and leading a team of 10 PhD students, teaching Virtual and Augmented Reality courses.

  • 2005 - 2008

    Inventor and Project Coordinator

    iotracker.com

    Inventor and project coordinator of the iotracker - an affordable optical real-time tracking solution (www.iotracker.com)

  • 1 Jahr und 4 Monate, Mai 2004 - Aug. 2005

    Postdoctoral researcher

    Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology

    Researcher and supervisor in the FWF Project (P16803) “Educating Spatial Intelligence with Augmented Reality”

  • 3 Jahre und 7 Monate, Okt. 2000 - Apr. 2004

    Researcher

    Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology

    Worked in the FWF funded project “Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality” (P14470-INF) (Oct 2000 - Jul 2002); “Vertragsassistent” (faculty member) Apr 2001 - Jul 2001; EU IST Project Lab@Future (IST-2001-34204) Aug 2002 - Apr 2004

  • 1998 - 2000

    Developer

    uma information technology GmbH

    Part time employee at "virtual real estate" (now "uma information technology GmbH") * Contribution in the VRML visualization of the Mischek real estate project • Participation in development of the first 3D VRML search engine “Melvil”

  • 2 Jahre und 1 Monat, Mai 1997 - Mai 1999

    Researcher

    Institute of Geometry, Vienna University of Technology

    Work in the FWF (Austrian Research Fund) Project (P12252) “Approximation of point sets with developable surfaces”, coordinated by Prof. Helmut Pottmann

  • 1999 - 1999

    Co-Founder

    Rename.net Ltd

    Co-Founder of Rename.net, offering URL shortcuts. Nowadays Perfiliate Technologies http://www.perfiliate.com/

  • 1997 - 1999

    Co-Founder, CTO, Developer

    Geometrek

    A company consisting of 10-15 VRML experts worldwide developing VRML solutions.

  • 1997 - 1997

    Developer

    Chocolate Multimedia Productions GmbH

    Content development for educational mathematics trainer CD

  • 1 Monat, Juli 1995 - Juli 1995

    Developer

    Austrian Federal Institute of Soil and Water Research Management

    Programming control software to analyze soil samples for hydrological conductivity in the laboratory

Ausbildung von Hannes Kaufmann

  • 4 Jahre und 9 Monate, Sep. 2005 - Mai 2010

    Mixed Reality

    Institute of SW-Tech. and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology

    Habilitation thesis on "Applications of Mixed Reality"

  • 4 Jahre und 8 Monate, Okt. 1999 - Mai 2004

    Computer Science (Augmented Reality)

    Interactive Media Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology

    Dissertation titled "Geometry Education with Augmented Reality"

  • 6 Jahre und 9 Monate, Okt. 1992 - Juni 1999

    Mathematics and Geometry - Teacher Education

    Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Vienna University of Technology

    Master Thesis titled "Computational Geometry of Developable Surfaces”

Sprachen

  • Englisch

    Fließend

  • Deutsch

    Muttersprache

Interessen

My research interests include virtual and augmented reality
various tracking technologies and applications (especially optical tracking technologies; time of flight cameras
...)
motion capture
medical applications of VR/AR
psychological topics (Cyberpsychology)
education in mixed reality
3D user interface design
AR/VR and CAD Integration.

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