Latest C-LAB News

2010-07-23 | Job opening for new members of staff to support our team

The C-LAB, a cooperation of the University of Paderborn and Siemens AG in Paderborn, is looking for new members of staff to support our team.  Further information concerning the vacancy at the C-LAB can be found here 

2010-07-14 | C-LAB presented RFID based Triage at the Interschutz

C-LAB successfully presented the solution RFID based triage, a result of the nationally funded R+D project SOGRO, at the Interschutz in Hanover. With C-LAB’s RFID based triage, the triage of injured people at accidents (e. g. air crash, terrorist attacks, etc.) is significantly reduced. Thus, injured people can be taken to hospital much faster which saves lives. The visitors were highly interested in the solution RFID based triage. For further information look here.

2010-06-23 | Project group "Mutti" - Usage of digital multi-touch-tables

Computer Science students work in the project group „MUTTI“ to develop a digital multi-touch-table. Within this group various usage scenarios and specific applications were developed to support incident response units during the task of crisis management. This happens in close cooperation with the C-LAB and the “Technischen Hilfswerk” (German Federal Agency for Technical Relief) Detmold. For further information look here.

2010-06-16 | New Bachelor’s Theses on eMobility and Innovation Management

The C-LAB offers new Bachelor’s theses which will be supervised in cooperation with the Chair of Information Management & E-Finance (University of Paderborn). For further information look here.

2010-05-28 | The Power Grid of the Future – C-LAB presents a Smart Metering Demonstrator at the Open House of the University of Paderborn!

On July 4th, 2010 the University of Paderborn opens its doors (http://www.uni-paderborn.de/tdot2010/) in the context of the “Paderborner Wissenschaftstage”. At this occasion, C-LAB will present its Smart Metering Demonstrator to the interested audience. The demonstrator was built within the research project HYDRA that is co-financed by the European Commission. Besides this, C-LAB will present further exhibits regarding topics such as useTable – Multi User Table for Tangible Interaction, autonomous soccer robots, Remote Field Assistant and electronic steering system in vehicles at the Open House of the University of Paderborn. For further information look here.

2010-05-28 | Project results Serv.biz published

Key results of the completed R&D project Serv.biz have been published as a book "Management hybrider Wertschöpfung " (under the creative commons license). Within the article "Technologie als Treiber hybrider Wertschöpfung am Beispiel eingebetteter Systeme" (pages 17-37) Sven Ahlheid, Dr. Gernot Gräfe and Florian Röhr (all C-LAB) present the results of their work. Here you can get the complete book.

2010-05-27 | ContextStore goes Open Source

ContextStore is a result of the R&D project OSAMI and goes Open Source. The ContextStore is a collection of OSGi services providing a persistent management of ContextEvents. Services implementing the handler interface are automatically detected and linked to the context store and can act as source or consumer of ContextEvents. For further information look here.

2010-05-25 | Touch-Workshop at the "Mensch und Computer 2010"

In collaboration with three other universities, C-LAB organizes a workshop at the "Mensch und Computer 2010" conference, titled "Requirements and solutions for the use of interactive displays in the context of collaborative work" . The workshop focusses on bringing together researchers and practitioners from the area of Human-Computer-Interaction, especially multi-touch and tangible interaction.

2010-05-06 | Learning and imitation in heterogeneous robot group

As robots become increasingly affordable, they are used in ever more diverse areas in order to perform increasingly complex tasks. These tasks are typically preprogrammed by a human expert. In some cases, however, this is not feasible - either because of the inherent complexity of the task itself or ... For further information look here.