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List of publications

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Projects

FWF Translational Research (L602), The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum
... home of explorARTorium and ThIATRO ...

FWF Translational Research (L363), 3D e-Tourism Environment

Some recent publications

2013

J. Froschauer, D. Merkl, M. Arends, and D. Goldfarb. Art history concepts at play with ThIATRO. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Special issue on serious games for cultural heritage, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Article 7, 2013.
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2012

M. Arends, M. Weingartner, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, and D. Merkl. Learning about Art History by Exploratory Search, Contextual View and Social Tags. In Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
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M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, D. Merkl, and M. Weingartner. Analysing User Motivation in an Art Folksonomy. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Knowledge-Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria, 2012.
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J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, and D. Merkl. A Serious Game for Art History: Design and Evaluation of ThIATRO. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2012), Milan, Italy, IEEE CS Press, 2012.
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J. Froschauer, J. Zweng, D. Merkl, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, and M. Weingartner. ARTournament: A Mobile Casual Game to Explore Art History. In Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
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D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, and D. Merkl. Art History on Wikipedia: A Macroscopic Observation. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2012), Evanston, IL, 2012.
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2011

M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, and D. Merkl. Analysing User Generated Content Related to Art History. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Knowledge-Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria, 2011.
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M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, D. Merkl, and M. Weingartner. Vermittlung kunstgeschichtlicher Inhalte durch die Kontextualisierung von Kunstwerken. In Tagungsband EVA 2011 Berlin: Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie, Berlin, Germany, 2011.
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J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, and D. Merkl. Towards an online multiplayer serious game providing a joyful experience in learning art history, In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES 2011), Athens, Greece, 2011.
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D. Goldfarb, Max Arends, Josef Froschauer, Dieter Merkl and Martin Weingartner. Combining Cultural Heritage Related Web Resources in 3D Information Landscapes. In J. P. Bowen, S. Dunn and K. Ng (eds) EVA London 2011 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London, UK, 73-80.
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D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, and D. Merkl. Revisiting 3D Information Landscapes for the Display of Art Historical Web Content. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, ACM Press, 2011.
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M. Weingartner, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, and D. Merkl. Analyse der Tags einer Kunst Folksonomie. In Tagungsband EVA 2011 Berlin: Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie, Berlin, Germany, 2011.
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2010

M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, D. Merkl, and M. Weingartner. Interaktion mit musealen Inhalten in Web3D, In Tagungsband EVA 2010 Berlin: Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie, Berlin, Germany, 2010.
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J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, and D. Merkl. Design and evaluation os a serious game for immersive cultural training, In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2010), Seoul, Korea, 2010.
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2009


M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, D. Merkl, and M. Weingartner. Interaction with art museums on the Web, In Proceedings of the IADIS Int'l Conference WWW/Internet, Roma, Italy, 2009.
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J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, and D. Merkl. New directions in science communications: A virtual research & experience landscape. In Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education (E-LEARN 2009), Vancouver, BC, 2009.
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I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, J. Froschauer, H. Berger, and D. Merkl. An agent-based centralized e-marketplace in a virtual environment. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009), Boston, MA, 2009.
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2007

H. Berger, M. Denk, M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, and A. Pesenhofer. Quo vadis homo turisticus? Towards a picture-based tourist profiler. In Proceedings of the Int’l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER’07), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007.
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2006

H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, and D. Merkl. Let’s get social in e-tourism: The “itchy feet” way. In Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2006), Taipei, Taiwan, 2006.
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H. Berger, D. Merkl, and M. Dittenbach. Exploiting partial decision trees for feature subset selection in e-mail categorization. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2006), Dijon, France, 2006, ACM Press.
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M. Dittenbach, H. Berger, and D. Merkl. Automated concept discovery from Web resources. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Int'l Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006), Hong Kong, China, 2006, IEEE CS Press.
[PDF, ~111 kb]

Some older publications

R. Mayer, D. Merkl, A. Rauber. Mnemonic SOMs: Recognizable shapes for self-organizing maps, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, Paris, France, 2005.
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H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl. An adaptive information retrieval system based on associative networks, In Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004.
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M. Dittenbach, H. Berger, D. Merkl. Improving domain ontologies by mining semantics from text, In Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2004.
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D. Merkl, S. H. He, M. Dittenbach, A. Rauber. Adaptive hierarchical incremental grid growing: An architecture for high-dimensional data visualization, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2003.
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M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, H. Berger. What customers really want to know from tourism information systems but never dared to ask. In Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR'02), Montreal, Canada, 2002.
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M. Dittenbach, A. Rauber, D. Merkl. Recent advances with the growing hierarchical self-organizing map, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps, Lincoln, UK, 2001, Springer-Verlag.
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H. Hasenauer, D. Merkl, M. Weingartner. Estimating tree mortality of Norway spruce stands with neural networks, Advances in Environmental Research, Vol 5, No 4, 2001, Elsevier.
[PDF,  ~188 kb]

M. Dittenbach, D. Merkl, A. Rauber. The growing hierarchical self-organizing map, In Proceedings of the Int'l Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2000), Como, Italy, 2000, IEEE CS Press.
[PDF, ~496 kb]