Till Halbach @ NR

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Current projects

Current projects with my participation.

e-Me
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Accessible and usable identity management solutions in social electronic media
Responsibilities
Literature research; Planning and requirements specifications; System architecture, installation, configuration, and maintenance; Prototype development; User studies and evaluations
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MobileSage
Research area
e-Inclusion / Multimedia
Description
"Situated Adaptive Guidance for the Mobile Elderly", a smartphone app for finding multimodal help content
Responsibilities
Project proposal, planning, and management; System architecture; Requirements specifications; Development of Content Management System; User evaluations
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Previous projects

Recent projects with my participation.

IVIS
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Social electronic media for the vision impaired
Responsibilities
System engineer and maintenance, technical evaluations
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Web citizen (Nettborger)
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Development of a solution to demonstrate how social media can contribute to more people participating in the digital life
Responsibilities
Literature research; System development
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Norwegian Historical Person Register
Research area
Multimedia/e-Inclusion
Description
Building of a wiki containing person data from historical censuses.
Responsibilities
Planning; System architecture, installation, configuration, and maintenance; Software development and integration (Wiki technology, bots, and scripts);
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EUX2010SEC
Research area
Multimedia/security
Description
Investigating security aspects of Open Source software for VoIP and associated media
Responsibilities
Video telephony and conferencing; feasibility and integration; evaluation of software and distributions; lab setup and maintenance
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Personal content management
Research area
Multimedia
Description
Developing a framework for the life cycle management of personal content, and in particular multimedia data.
Responsibilities
Planning, system architecture, use and business models
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eVote
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Assessment of technical solutions with regard to their accessibility, usability, and standard conformance. The eVote project aims at providing technology for web based voting in 2011
Responsibilities
Automated testing, technical tests, WCAG conformance, HTML conformance, CSS conformance, JavaScript and cross-platform compatibility, fluid rendering
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KogNett
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Design of a tutorial (veileder) tailored for web designers and authors, including matters like user interfaces for the cognitively impaired, WCAG 2.0, ELMER 2.0, and the legal framework by the Norwegian authorities
Responsibilities
Project management, design principles, technical writing
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MARIAGE
Research area
Multimedia
Description
Ensuring that systems, applications, and data are accessible in the long-term run
Responsibilities
Streaming of video and audio (radio); anycast; technology evaluation; system virtualization; content management systems (e.g., video sharing site); applied multimedia meta data; photo collections/databases; photo management tools; codecs (H.264, Dirac, Theora, Motion JPEG2000, others); long-term storage and lossless compression; accessibility issues; testing
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Universal Mobile Device
Research area
UD, e-Inclusion, accessibility
Description
Usability evaluations of personal devices
Responsibilities
Device acquisition
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DIADEM
Research area
e-Inclusion
Description
Usable and accessible Web forms for people with cognitive disabilities and elderly members of the community
Responsibilities
Prototype development and system architecture; Java, JavaScript, XSLT, and plug-in programming; form development (Xforms, Xpath, Xschema); web markup (HTML, XHTML, XML); style (CSS); usability and accessibility (WCAG, MWBP, ARIA, ELMER); scalability; testing; dissemination
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UNIMOD
Research area
Universal design
Description
Accessible multimodal web solutions for public services
Responsibilities
Prototype development and system architecture; web and plug-in technologies (HTML / XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash); multimedia and multimodal solutions, in particular screencasts; usability and accessibility (WCAG, MWBP, ARIA, ELMER); scalability; UI design; testing; supervision of students
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Project pages (in Norwegian)
OSIRIS
Research area
Middleware infrastructure
Description
Open-source infrastructure for run time integration of services
Responsibilities
Software development; system architecture; Java programming
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Unnamed projects
Research area
Multimedia
Description
C++ programming; image and video compression and transmission
Responsibilities
  • Compression and decompression of video sequences with codecs compliant with specifications like MPEG-4, H.264, Theora, or Dirac
  • Performance evaluations and comparisons of video codecs
  • Compression and decompression of still images with codecs compliant with specifications like JPEG­2000, and transmission
  • Evaluation of project roadmaps, technical consulting
  • Trend assessment and development of marked strategies
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JPEG2000 implementation
Other

Responsibilities outside projects.

Writing of research proposals, funding applications, and offers
Part of the processes of writing responses to program calls by e.g. EU and NRC, writing applications for funding to other institutions, and writing project plans for public institutions and commercial actors
Web site administrator
Web technology (including search engine optimization), content, and style for my department's web pages at NR
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List of publications at NR, including available documents.

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