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Prof. Dr. rer. nat.
Sven Bertel Junior Professor of Usability Computer Science and Media Division, Faculty of Media Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Email: sven.bertel (at) uni-weimar.de Mail: Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Bauhausstraße 11, 99423 Weimar, Germany Office: B 11, Room 124 / Coords: 50°58'28" N 11°19'45" E Phone: +49 (3643) 58–3729 Secretary's Office: Nadin Glaser and Maria-Theresa Hansens |
News | Research interests | CV | Projects | Publications | Events | Teaching | Grants and fellowships
New coordinates as of mid-April 2011: I have moved back to the Old World, to beautiful Weimar, where I joined the Computer Science and Media Division, Faculty of Media, at the Bauhaus-Universität and took up the position of junior professor of usability.
Research Interests: Spatial cognition ++ Understanding and computationally modeling mental reasoning with spatial knowledge (e.g. involving spatial mental models, visual mental images, or diagrams) ++ Using cognitive models to improve the quality of human-computer interaction ++ Visual attention, eye movements and mental heuristics during spatial reasoning and problem solving ++ Interface design and representation of knowledge for spatial reasoning and problem solving ++ Human problem solving strategies in architectural design ++ Spatial concepts in WWW use.
Curriculum Vitae: I gladly provide an extended version of my CV on
request.
Main academic affiliations: Junior professor of usability, Faculty of Media, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (since 2011). ++ Post-doctoral research associate, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Human Factors Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009-2011). ++ Researcher, teaching assistant, and doctoral student, Cognitive Systems Group / Informatics, Universität Bremen & Transregional Collaborative Research Center Spatial Cognition SFB/TR 8 (2002-2009). ++ Visiting researcher, Spatial Thinking Lab, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004-2005). ++ Overseas Fellow & graduate studies in computer science and cognitive sciences, Indiana University Bloomington (1998-1999). ++ Diploma studies in informatics, minors in cognitive psychology and economics, Universität Hamburg (1994-2001).
Academic degrees: Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) in informatics, Universität Bremen, 2009. ++ Diploma in informatics (emphasis on knowledge representation; minors in cognitive psychology & economics), Universität Hamburg, 2001.
Selected Research Projects:
- Cognitive processes underlying mental imagery and problem solving, jointly with Jana Holsanova et al.; sponsored by the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study.
- Spatial updating and reasoning with object locations, jointly with Wai-Tat Fu and Hyunkyu Lee.
- Spatial language and mental representations, jointly with Dan Morrow et al.
- Older Adults’ Health Knowledge and Comprehension Processes of Multimedia Health Information, collaboration with Dan Morrow (PI) et al.
- DFG SFB/TR-8 Spatial Cognition: project R1-[ImageSpace] – Mental Representations of Spatial Environments
- Doctoral project in artificial intelligence and spatial cognition on 'Spatial structures and visual attention in diagrammatic reasoning' (Dr. rer. nat., concluded in Jan 2009; shortlisted for the ECCAI 2008 dissertation award for the best European thesis in artificial intelligence)
- DFG Spatial Cognition Priority Program: project Aspect Maps
Publications: List of publications Papers at scholar.google.com
Selected (Co-) Organized Events:
- 2010, March 22–24: AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Shape Processing, Stanford University
- 2008, September 19: Doctoral colloquium at the Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08) conference in Freiburg, Germany (ESRI student awards are available)
- 2006, July 9: Constructing and Understanding Visuo-Spatial Representations in Design Thinking (VSDESIGN'06), workshop at the Design Computing and Cognition 2006 conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- 2006, June 17: 50 Years AI — an artificial intelligence symposium to celebrate the golden anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference that marks the beginning of AI as a research field. Colocated with the 29th annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2006) and RoboCup 2006.
- 2006, June 14–19: KI2006 — 29th annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- 2004, July 18: Workshop on "Mental conceptions of emergent spaces in architectural design", held in connection with DCC'04 at MIT, Cambridge, MA (call for papers, workshop notes, program)
- 2003, September 01–02: International workshop on spatial and visual components in mental reasoning about large-scale spaces (held at the ISCSI, Bad Zwischenahn)
Teaching Activities:
- Winter 2011–12: Usability Engineering (lecture + labs)
- Winter 2011–12: Zeitmaschinen: Kontextbasierte Unterstützung intelligenter Interaktion durch Zeit und Raum (Projekt)
- Summer 2011: Usability: Grundlagen von Wahrnehmung und Kognition (Vorlesung im Bachelor Medieninformatik)
- Fall 2009: Human Factors (Psychology/Aviation 358 / Industrial Engineering 340)
- Spring 2009: Engineering Psychology (Psychology / Aviation 527 — course material, login required)
- Winter 2008–09: Cognitive Systems 2
- Winter 2007–08: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 1
- Winter 2007–08: Cognitive Systems 2
- Summer 2007: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 2
- Winter 2005–06 – Summer 2007: MaX — MazeXplorer. Projekt im Hauptstudium Informatik
- Winter 2003–04 – Summer 2005: CooPLanD — Assisting cooperative planning of land use. Projekt im Hauptstudium Informatik
- Summer 2003: Tutorium zur Theoretischen Informatik 2
- Winter 2002–03: Tutorien zur Praktischen Informatik 1
Selected Grants, Honors, and Fellowships:
- 2011–2012: Seed grant for project 'Reaching below the surface level of human-computer interfaces: Anticipatory cognitive computing for spatial problem solving', Anschubfonds, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- 2011: 2-months fellowship at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst
- 2011: Travel grant, GAIN – German Academic International Network, European Career Fair @ MIT
- 2010: GSO Scholarship at the 10th Annual GAIN Meeting, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 2010: DAAD travel grant to Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
- 2010: Twin Fellowship, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Hanse Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst
- 2010: Travel grant, GAIN – German Academic International Network, European Career Fair @ MIT
- 2009: Grant at the Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
- 2008: Shortlisted for 2008 ECCAI Dissertation Award (best European dissertation in artificial intelligence)
- 2007: AAAI student grant at the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University
- 2007: Travel grant by BFK Natural Sciences, Universität Bremen, ECEM 2007 conference
- 2006: DFG travel grant to Stanford University and to UC Santa Barbara
- 2006: Google Inc. travel award at Diagrams 2006, Stanford University
- 2005: Travel grant, ECEM 13 conference at Bern, Switzerland, by the German Research Foundation / DFG
- 2005: Student grant at the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposia, Stanford University
- 2004–2005: Grant by the SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition for a ½-year research visit to UC Santa Barbara (Hegarty Spatial Thinking Lab, Department of Psychology)
- 2004: Scholarship at the Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'04) conference, MIT, Cambridge, MA
- 2003: ESRI Student Award at the COSIT'03 conference in Ittingen, Switzerland
- 2003: DAAD stipend for the 10th International Summer School in Cognitive Science at NBU, Sofia
- 2002: Grant by Hansische Universitätsstiftung, 9th Intl Summer School in Cognitive Science at NBU, Sofia
- 1998–1999: Overseas Fellowship and stipend by Indiana University, Bloomington