Scholar
Beat Signer
Google Scholar ID: v16OAn78FFUJ
Professor of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Citations & Impact
Citations
506
H-index
12
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He has contributed to several innovative cross-media publishing solutions including applications like PaperPoint, EdFest, Generosa Enterprise, The Lost Cosmonaut, Print-n-Link, or PaperProof, which were developed in collaboration with international publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, Pearson Education, the Natural History Museum, and the BBC.
Research Experience
- He has over 20 years of experience in research on cross-media information management and multimodal interfaces. As part of his PhD thesis, he developed the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel and made significant contributions to the European Paper++ and PaperWorks research projects. He also led the development of various frameworks such as Mudra for multimodal and multi-touch interaction, iGesture for gesture-based user interfaces, CMT for context-aware computing, and tangible and augmented reality solutions.
Education
- During his PhD, he investigated fundamental concepts for interactive paper and cross-media information spaces and developed the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel.
Background
- Professor of Computer Science with research interests in cross-media information spaces and architectures (CISA), information science, interactive paper, dynamic data physicalisation, tangible holograms, mixed reality, and multimodal and multi-touch interaction frameworks. His work focuses on developing new cross-media document formats and innovative forms of human-information interaction based on the resource-selector-link (RSL) hypermedia metamodel.
Miscellany
- Currently, he and his team are researching information concepts for the representation of open and fluid cross-media information spaces, where parts of documents can easily move between different mobile devices and different heterogeneous data sources can be integrated via cross-device user interfaces. They are also interested in next-generation user interfaces.
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