A customizable personal start page
myBlank is a single page assisting various frequently occuring tasks. It supports browsing the internet, provides fast access to news sites, and to personal bookmarks. Other ‘portlets’ such as weather forecast, or a group message system can be integrated, too.
A ‘HyperSearch’ provides fast and easy access to different search engines.
The page is customizable, i.e. the user can add new search engines, add and categorize his bookmarks, and set options, e.g. if links are to open in new windows.
Konami of Europe’s multi-lingual website with games information, community, and downloads
This site was built with the Riot CMS and includes among others
A browser toolbar to search in the Yellow Pages.
With this Internet Explorer toolbar users can search the german Yellow Pages fast and easy, directly from every website.
It integrates seemingless into Microsoft’s browser and allows different searches with multiple options such as a geographically localized search. Additionally, the user is able to customize his toolbar interface.
Portal about music DVDs by Universal Music
Universal’s music DVDs offer high quality music with brilliant images. The challenge was not only to display the complete catalogue of music DVDs but to create a good user experience.
Users are able to order products online and find informations, and shots of every DVD. Some community features such as rating were built in as well.
The CMS has to connect to Universal’s main database server. Its original data were fetched via a XML-RPC interface and extended with editorial informations.
Online shop for Jack Daniel’s Germany.
In the Jack Daniel’s webstore the customers can browse through the products, and can order whiskeys, or merchandising products.
On the backend a base Customer Relationship Managment has been built.
Website for the Architectural Association Hesse
Via this information portal the Architectural Association Hesse (i.e. the Riot CMS editors) can publish and maintain all the contents for architects and principals.
Particularly frequent an events overview with registration service has been visited and used by the more than 10,000 members. Additonally, there are some brochures and other informative literature to order online.
Concept Paper on a commercial online music store.
I wrote this paper for a major german music label to expose the key issues of building up an successful online music store. Main task was to show how distributing digital music can be commercially fruitful, and fit the customer’s need at the same time.
The paper gives an overview on digital rights management, on varying digital music techniques and their ability to protect the label’s rights.
The second big task was the technical conception of creating the new system and integrating it with legacy systems.
My diploma thesis. The original title is “Unterstützung des Zugriffs auf Informationen mittels Visualisierung besuchter Hypertextseiten”
3dhtml is a DHTML toolkit that supports the development of 3D applications
3dhtml is a DHTML toolkit that supports the development of 3D applications.
The toolkit makes it easy for DHTML programmers to build their own animated three dimensional graphical applications with models, materials, transformations, modifiers, etc.
It gives developers high-level constructs for creating and manipulating 3D geometry and for constructing the structures used in rendering that geometry. In order to do so, it provides JavaScript libraries, documentation and a bunch of pretty examples.
The object-oriented libraries are written to work in cross-browser environments and offer a simple (but multiplatform and plugin-less) 3D framework using JavaScript.
While working on my diploma thesis my friend René and I extended our contribution (Heart3D) to the 5k competition. What we thought is a rapid weekend fun project ended up in a some weeks long venture.
Happily it became a pretty successfull project:
(The project is sleeping at the moment and wasn’t updated for new browsers for a while)
A term paper on information visualization and interaction
A primer on Information Visualization.
Amongst others, topics covered in this paper include the visualization process (filtering, mapping, rendering, and usage of data), the distinction between data and information, as well as graph and network theory.
The later chapters focus on interaction and interface techniques and introduce the concepts of zoom + pan, focus + context, and other, more innovative visualization methods (e.g. TreeMap, fisheye and hyperbolic views).
Finally, the paper evaluates some products and projects, such as Cone Tree, Perspective Wall, and the well-known Map of the Market.
