Dr. Philipp Ackermann

Work at ZHAW

Management role

dep. Head of Research/Focus Area, Human-Centered Computing

Position at the ZHAW

Lecturer for Computer Science in the "Human-Centered Computing" group

www.zhaw.ch/init/visualcomputinglab

Professional development teaching

CAS Advanced Statistical Data Analysis

Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Visual Computing, Computer Graphics, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, Virtual Reality, Information Visualization,
Digital Health, Mobile Apps, Audio & Music Processing.

Professional milestones

Founder and managing director of Perspectix AG

Educational background

Dr. oec. publ. UniZH
Research Assistant at Multimedia Lab / Institute for Informatics / University of Zürich

Membership of networks

• IEEE
• ACM
• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik (SGMI)

Projects

• Mixed Reality in plant engineering / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Digital Health Zurich – A practice lab for patient-centred clinical innovation / Deputy project leader / Project ongoing
• Surgical Proficiency – Data-driven transformation of surgical education for proficiency-based performance / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Modularisierte Plattform für Medizinische Bilddaten (MMIP) / Team member / Project completed
• varcu – virtual and augmented reality curation / Project leader / Project completed
• Epidemiologische Multiskalensimulation zur Analyse der Übertragungsmechanismen in der COVID-19 Pandemie / Team member / Project completed
• Intelligent Viticulture / Project leader / Project completed
• Erstellung digitaler Gesundheitsangebote für AXA Kunden / Team member / Project completed
• Data Driven Medical muscle Training / Team member / Project completed
• DeepScore: Digital Music Stand with Musical Understanding via Active Sheet Technology / Team member / Project completed
• SIDAC2 / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Tuggener, Lukas; Emberger, Raphael; Ghosh, Adhiraj; Sager, Pascal; Satyawan, Yvan Putra; Montoya, Javier; Goldschagg, Simon; Seibold, Florian; Gut, Urs; Ackermann, Philipp; Schmidhuber, Jürgen; Stadelmann, Thilo,

  2023.

  Real world music object recognition.

  Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-28719

• Ackermann, Philipp; Stockinger, Kurt,

  2019.

  Narrative visualization of open data

  .

  In:

  Applied data science : lessons learned for the data-driven business.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  pp. 251-264.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11821-1_14

• Ackermann, Philipp,

  2023.

  AR patterns : event-driven design patterns in creating augmented reality experiences [paper].

  In:

  Zachmann, Gabriel; Walczak, Krzysztof; Niamut, Omar A.; Johnsen, Kyle; Stuerzlinger, Wolfgang; Alcañiz-Raya, Mariano; Welch, Greg; Bourdot, Patrick, eds.,

  20th EuroXR International Conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 29 November - 1 December 2023.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 14410.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48495-7_6

• Moreno, Santiago; Ackermann, Philipp,

  2023.

  ARchi VR : real-time collaboration in augmented spaces [paper].

  In:

  MuC '23: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2023.

  Mensch und Computer (MuC), Rapperswil, Schweiz, 3.-6. September 2023.

  New York:

  Association for Computing Machinery.

  pp. 551-553.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3609310

• Pidel, Catlin; Ackermann, Philipp,

  2020.

  Collaboration in virtual and augmented reality : a systematic overview [paper].

  In:

  De Paolis, Lucio Tommaso; Bourdot, Patrick, eds.,

  Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics.

  7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (AVR), Virtual Conference, 7-10 September 2020.

  Springer.

  pp. 141-156.

  Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 12242.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58465-8_10

• Ackermann, Philipp; Bach, Thomas,

  2015.

  Redesign of an introductory computer graphics course [paper].

  In:

  Bronstein, M.; Teschner, M., eds.,

  EG 2015 - Education Papers.

  Eurographics, Zürich, 4-8 May 2015.

  Oxford:

  The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing.

  pp. 9-13.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.2312/eged.20151021

• Heinlein, Bernd; Ackermann, Philipp,

  2016.

  Der virtuelle Körper als 3-D-Simulationsmodell.

  IT for Health.

  2016(1), pp. 44-45.

• Pauchard, Yves; Ackermann, Philipp,

  2014.

  Visual eHealth : an ICT innovation and dissemination strategy to improve our well-being [paper].

  In:

  S2B Science-to-Business Marketing Conference 2014, Münster, Deutschland, 2014.

  pp. 241-249.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Philipp Ackermann, Aurelius Bernet: Intelligent Building Configuration Model; in: Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent Construction - Handbook 3; EU research report available online under www.i3con.org, September 2010.

Philipp Ackermann: Configuration of Product-centric Services; Joint Conference of International Mass Customization Meeting (IMCM’08) and International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects on Product Configuration Systems (PETO’08); Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, June 19-20th 2008.

Philipp Ackermann: Supporting sales engineering with product-centric CRM; eStrategies Europe, May 2008.

Philipp Ackermann: PLM-integrated Configurators for Machine and Plant Construction; IJCAI Workshop on Configuration, in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005), Edinbrugh, Scotland, July 2005.

Philipp Ackermann: Product Knowledge Management; in Conference Proceedings of International Conference on Economic, Technical and Organisational Aspects of Product Configuration Systems, Copenhagen, June 2004.

Philipp Ackermann: Interactive Simulations; chapter in: Total Interaction – Theory and practice of a new paradigm for the design disciplines, edited by Gerhard M. Buurman, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2001.

Philipp Ackermann: Produktvisualisierung und Interaktions-Konzepte für Mass Customization; in: Piller, Schenk, Seelmann-Eggebert (eds): Mass Customization - Vom Businessmodell zur erfolgreichen Anwendung, Tagungsband zur dritten deutschen Mass Customization Tagung, Frankfurt 2001.

Philipp Ackermann: Eintauchen in den EncycloSpace – Die zukünftige Rolle des Mediums „Computer“ in den Geisteswissenschaften; in: Prof. Dr. habil Guerino Mazzola: Humanities@EncycloSpace; SWR/FER-Studie, Schweizerischer Wissenschaftsrat; Bern 1998.

Philipp Ackermann: Developing Object-Oriented Multimedia Software - Based on the MET++ Application Framework; dpunkt Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996.

Philipp Ackermann: Object-oriented Modelling of Time Synchronisation in a Multimedia Application Framework; in: Audio Engineering Society AES 95th Convention, Preprints, Audio Engineering Society, New York, October 1993.

Dominik Eichelberg, Philipp Ackermann: Integrating Interactive 3D-Graphics into an Object-oriented Application Framework; in: T. Grechenig, M. Tscheligi: Human Computer Interaction, Vienna Conference VCHCI 93, Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, September 1993.

Philipp Ackermann: Computer und Musik - eine Einführung in die digitale Klang- und Musikverarbeitung; Springer-Verlag, Wien 1991.

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