On 20 April, Alison Grant, the Canadian ambassador to Austria, visited the University of Klagenfurt. As a part of an exclusive delegation, Dr. Felix Schniz accompanied the ambassador on a tour through campus grounds and the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, showcasing the appeal of the interdisciplinary Master’s Programme Game Studies and Engineering, the role […]
On 16 April, Dr Felix Schniz (ITEC) organised a guest talk and workshop by Flavia Mazzanti and Manuel Bornell from Immerea (www.immerea.com). Supported by the FTF and co-organised by DI Dr. Martina Tritthart (Visuelle Kultur), the dual event introduced students of both programmes and visitors alike to contemporary digital art in the era of VR […]
Title: Token-Wise Attention-Guided Semantic Quality Assessment for Compressed Visual Features Authors: Shien Ke, Changsheng Gao, Hadi Amirpour, Zhihua Wang, Xaoyan Sun Event: QoMEX 2026, Cardiff, UK, June 29th – July 3rd, 2026 Abstract: In collaborative and distributed intelligent systems, compressed intermediate features are routinely transmitted and reused, making semantic quality assessment (SQA) crucial for reliable deployment. Recent compressed feature […]
Title: Quality-Complexity Trade-off for Sustainable Media Delivery Authors: Hadi Amirpour, Christian Herglotz, Lingfeng Qu, Wei Zhou, Christian Timmerer Event: QoMEX 2026, Cardiff, UK, June 29th – July 3rd, 2026 Abstract: Sustainable media delivery increasingly requires joint optimization across perceptual quality, bitrate, and computational cost, yet codec comparisons are often reported only in rate-distortion terms without accounting for energy […]
Title: Dynamic Participatory Game Design with Local AI: From Interviews to Trauma-Aware Interactive Narratives Authors: Kseniia Harshina, Tom Tucek, Mathias Lux Location: TextStory 2026 – Delft, The Netherlands, March 2026 Abstract: We present a work-in-progress, trauma-aware participatory storytelling pipeline that uses a locally hosted large language model (LLM) as a neutral chatbot interviewer. The system supports self-paced […]
On Thursday, February 26, 2026. Kurt successfully defended his PhD thesis (Service Discovery in the Computing Continuum) under the supervision of Prof. Radu Prodan and Dr. Dragi Kimovski. The defense was chaired by Assoc.-Prof. DI Dr Klaus Schöffmann and the examiners were Prof. Valeria Cardellini (online) and Prof. Karin Anna Hummel (on-site). We are pleased […]
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications [PDF] Authors: Christian Timmerer (AAU, Austria), Maria Martini (Kingston University London, UK), Ali C. Begen (Ozyegin University, Türkiye), Luca De Cicco (Politecnico di Bari, Italy) Abstract: This special issue presents recent advances in multimedia systems research showcased at ACM Multimedia Systems 2024 and its co-located workshops. The […]
Ttitle: Tell Your Story Through Games (TYS): Preliminary Guidelines for Mixed-Migrant Participatory Game Jams Conference: The 3rd Geogames Symposium (3GGS) – Iowa, USA Authors: Kseniia Harshina Abstract: Migration-themed games are often framed as “empathy machines,” inviting outsiders to temporarily inhabit another’s hardship. This framing can slide into identity tourism and reinforce the trope of the “helpless […]
Title: Pleasure Not For Everyone: Epistemic Injustice Towards Ukrainian Game Studies Conference: 17th Annual DiGRA Conference Authors: Kseniia Harshina, Mark Maletska Abstract: Calls for playfulness in research often emphasize joy and learning, yet play and games can also exclude and harm minoritized participants—including within academia. In game studies, debates on diversity and postcoloniality have grown, but they still tend […]
Conference: International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026), April 8-11, 2026, London, UK Paper-Title: SAM-Fed: SAM-Guided Federated Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation. Authors: Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian, Yiping Li, Marcel Breeuwer, Raphael Sznitman, and Klaus Schoeffmann Abstract: Medical image segmentation is clinically important, yet data privacy and the cost of expert annotation limit the availability of labeled […]