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06/19/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Kassel's success in the "Sovereign into the digital future" ideas competition

What will it be like when we are connected with digital technologies 24 hours a day? How can technology positively shape our future? The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research was looking for creative ideas around the human-technology interaction of tomorrow. The jury selected five teams from over 40 submissions with many innovative and creative technology visions.

Image: Human-Machine Systems Engineering Specialty.
The five nominated student teams (on the right, the team from the University of Kassel) with the jury and Minister Karliczek at the Future Congress.

With the entry "TranslAid", an interdisciplinary team of students from the Department of Human-Machine Systems Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Schmidt) and the Focus on Film and Television (Prof. Yana Drouz) at the University of the Arts in Kassel, consisting of Anthony Borgan, Christian Engel, Victoria Koberstein, Philipp Krause, and Niklas Seehausen, was among them. The team presented their concept of simultaneous translating data glasses at the Zukunftskongress 2019 in Bonn on May 21, 2019.

Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek personally welcomed the five nominated teams and said at the opening of the congress, "I am particularly pleased that so many students have shown interest in our ideas competition 'Sovereign into the Digital Future'. Their exciting contributions and creative visions are what our society needs. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the award ceremony!". Voting by the more than 560 congress guests present then decided the final winners. In the end, only 0.5% of the votes cast separated first and third place, with which the Kassel team was successful.

The task of the ideas competition was to identify a particular challenge for human-technology interaction in the future and to develop a visionary solution for it. This idea was to consist of a specific technological product or a related service. Short idea papers as well as a video clip to visualize the creative idea were submitted, which will also be used as impulses for future research funding.

In addition, the event provided a good opportunity to listen to presentations and panel discussions about the future in a digitized world. The focus was on systems based on virtual or augmented reality (VR or AR).

More information about the Future Congress, all idea papers and videos: https://www.technik-zum-menschen-bringen.de/zukunftskongress/digitalezukunft

Here to the video of the Uni-Kassel contribution: https://youtu.be/cP-oUgVv7vM

More info on the Human-Machine Systems Engineering Department: www.mensch-maschine-systemtechnik.de

 

Contact:

Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ludger Schmidt
Department of Human-Machine Systems Engineering
University of Kassel
Mönchebergstraße 7
34125 Kassel
Tel.: +49 561 804 2704
E-Mail: l.schmidt[at]uni-kassel[dot]de