2023, Jäger, Janine, Korkut, Safak, Inglese, Terry, Schmiedel, Theresa

The paper presents a project of the School of Business of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland in which the project team is developing case study podcasts together with Swiss-based technology startups to apply them in case-based teaching in Business and Information Systems study programs. The goal of the project is to facilitate students' access to case study contexts by allowing them to listen to podcasts for self-study and develop solutions for practice-oriented business and technology challenges in the classroom and guided group work. This provides an engaging blended learning approach for the students through increased motivation to consume the learning material as well as a deeper connection to the study material, compared to the more commonly applied text-based case studies. This can enable much more productive classroom discussions and group work and could therefore provide improved learning outcomes, such as increased reflection, critical thinking, as well as analytical and problem-solving skills. The paper enriches the blended learning debate with details about the case study podcast production from a content-related, technological and didactical perspective as well as provides insights into the planned evaluation of the application of case study podcasts with regard to learning outcomes.

2016-10-06, Korkut, Safak, Jäger, Janine, Dornberger, Rolf

2014-10-10T00:00:00Z, Korkut, Safak, Hil, Darjan, Jäger, Janine, Dornberger, Rolf

2018, Jüngling, Stephan, Lutz, Jonas, Korkut, Safak, Jäger, Janine, Dornberger, Rolf

This chapter summarizes a historic overview of some iconic examples of human computer interaction devices and focuses on a human computer interaction paradigm which is based more on human language. Human language is by far the most utilized means of conscious communication between humans whereas the mouse and keyboard are the dominant means to store and process information in computers. This chapter elaborates on the main challenges related to human language, as well as on ideas showing how human language, written or spoken, is embedded in different application scenarios. Built on this premise this chapter presents ideas for today’s digitalized enterprises, which seem to disregard the fact that the latest technological advancements enable different ways of interacting with computerized systems, and that current interaction methods are bound to constraints of half a century ago. Given today’s computational power, the engineers of former decades would not have had to invent intermediary interaction devices such as the mouse, if direct manipulation with touch screen or natural language processing had been possible. The possibilities for modern enterprises to overcome the restrictions of interaction devices from the past are considered.

2016-06, Jäger, Janine, Korkut, Safak, Dornberger, Rolf

2014-07-20T00:00:00Z, Korkut, Safak, Hil, Darjan, Dornberger, Rolf, Jäger, Janine

"Tourney" is the title of a digital learning game, which aims at increasing the learning outcome of students on various levels of their study programs. "Tourney" is being developed with an interdisciplinary approach, critically focused on creating a content independent game framework for a versatile application in the learning environment. This platform offers a well-designed, flexible and multifaceted tool kit of exemplary self-learning sequences that the lecturers and also students can enrich with their own structured content in order to create learning paths by choosing and arranging modular elements. Additionally, the tool allows monitoring students learning progress.

2018, Dornberger, Rolf, Korkut, Safak, Lutz, Jonas, Berga, Janina, Jäger, Janine, Dornberger, Rolf

This chapter presents our recent research in the field of virtual reality (VR) and self-replicating robots. The unifying approach lies in the research philosophy of using consumer market gadgets, mostly developed for the gaming and entertainment business, in order to design and implement research prototypes. With the prototypes, our research aims to better understand real-world problems and derive practice-oriented solutions for them. In the field of VR, these prototypes are dedicated to identifying new business-relevant use cases in order to provide an additional benefit for business and society. A wide range of examples, such as claustrophobia treatment, financial data analysis, gesture control and voice navigation are discussed. In the field of robotics, the idea of self-replicating robots governs particular research questions. Here, the focus is on using model prototypes enriched with artificial intelligence for indoor navigation, computer vision and machine learning. Finally, the prototype-based research approach using gadgets to produce results is discussed.

2015-10, Jäger, Janine, Korkut, Safak, Hil, Darjan, Dornberger, Rolf

2014, Korkut, Safak, Hil, Darjan, Dornberger, Rolf, Jäger, Janine

Tourney offers a well-designed, flexible and multifaceted tool kit of exem-plary self-learning sequences that the lecturers and also students can enrich with their own structured content in order to create learning paths by choosing and arranging modular elements.