Dr. Philipp Ackermann

Personal profile

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 Statistical Modelling

Expertise and research interests

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

Educational background

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

Professional milestones

Founder and managing director of Perspectix AG

Membership of networks

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

Projects

• 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

• 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

• 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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