sem7 IT in the Building Process
IT tools

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IT i Civilingeniørspeciale i Byggeledelse/IT in Building Management.

IT Tools - Multimedia & Knowledge Management


Goal: The goal of the 'IT in the Building Process - IT-tools' course is to mediate understanding of methods and technologies for computer supported collaborative work, team work, graphical decicion support and multimedia human machine interface design, as well as mediation of knowledge about how the future services, systems, and infrastructures for information transfer (knowledge management) can be built and integrated.
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Placement:
This 2 modules course is one of 2 with emphasis on IT during the semester 8Master of IT in Building Management education (calender).
Content: Explaining Knowledge Management.
Principles for meta structuring in web based structures, development of communication support services, knowledge access, case based reasoning and common work on digital models.

Graphic editing. Interactive film tools.

Multimedia, MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)

Principles and technologies for computer supported collaboration and competence cooperation.
Properties of IT-tools for collaboration.

Standards and protocols to support HCI and collaboration.
Design of Multimedia and HCI, Human Computer Interaction, tools. Principles, guide-lines, Contextual design, authoring tools, use of metaphores, story telling, decision support, incremental prototyping,...)

Virtual Reality systems. Virtual reality markup language - VRML, collaboraion in Virtual Reality environments, Web-database integration.

Usability testing of HCI tools.

Methods and tools for undertaking change process analyses and implementations.
Formulation of IT-strategies.

References. Further reading under each lecture.

Examination: Oral test based on 1-3 hour discussions a group on a mini project or exercises collection. Assessed with the grade "passed" or "failed" with internal censor participation.
Examination will take place at Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, Media Lab, Thursday June 15, 2000, at 9.00 a.m. group 2.113a and 10.00 group 2.113b. Censors are Per Christiansson and Kaj Jørgensen.
Participants: The students come from semester 6 of the civil engineering program. Here you can also get access to their mini project/exercises from this semester 7 of the Virtual Building course.

Teachers
- Prof Per Christiansson, lecturer, project tutorand and course responsible
- Ass. Prof. Kjeld Svidt, lecturer and project tutor








1. EXPLAINING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Thursday February 3, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.

Explaining Knowledge Management.
Principles for meta structuring in web based structures, development of communication support services, knowledge access, case based reasoning and common work on digital models.








Click on the image for a high [4.9 Mb] resolution interactive harbour image or here for low [1.7 Mb] resolution.

2. GRAPHIC TOOLS

Thursday February 10, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University. http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Graphic and Multimedia editing tools. Interactive image tools. Image and Multimedia formats.






3. MULTIMEDIA HISTORY. USER MODELS

Thursday February 17, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Multimedia, MM, and Human Computer Interaction, HCI, history and development.
MM communication channels properties.
User models (intelligens profiles, languages, digital agents and agent cooperation,...)








4. COLLABORATION TOOLS

Thursday February 24, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Principles and technologies for computer supported collaboration and competence cooperation.
Properties of IT-tools for collaboration.






5. MULTIMEDIA DESIGN

Thursday March 2, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Design of Multimedia and HCI, Human Computer Interaction, applications.

Principles, incremental prototyping, demonstrator development, collaborative multimedia design, use of metaphores, story telling.

Multimedia authoring tools.








Click on the image for interctive access.

6. VRML - Building Virtual Worlds

Friday March 10, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Virtual Reality systems. Virtual reality markup language - VRML, collaboraion in
Virtual Reality environments, Web-database integration.
VR-Center Nord.

7. CONT!

Friday March 17, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Simple VRML editor. Shapes, textures.
3D VRML models from photos.
Concerting from different formats to VRML format.

We will continue to look at .........










8. USABILITY TESTING

Friday March 24, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Usability testing of HCI tools and interfaces to application systems.







9. IT-STRATEGIES. SUMMING-UP

Friday May 5, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 13.00 - 1500.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html

Methods and tools for undertaking change process analyses and implementations. Formulation of IT-strategies.

10. CONT!

Friday April 7, 2000.
Lecture/discussions 08.15 - 12.00.
Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, room A:217 (Media Lab), Aalborg University.
http://it.civil.auc.dk/it/medialab/index.html


Per Christiansson