teaching

Thomas Hermann | Teaching

I enjoy developing teaching material, giving lectures, and working with students. My teaching profile currently includes the following lectures and seminars, mostly held at Bielefeld University since 2000. Please contact me if you’d like to invite me for a course, seminar or talk on these topics.

Lectures

  • Sonification of Biomedical Data with Focus on EEG
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2007
  • Sonification I + Excercises
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2006
  • Interactive Spaces, (with Till Bovermann)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2005
  • Sound Synthesis, (with Till Bovermann),
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2005, 2006
  • Sonification for Exploratory Data Analysis
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2004
  • Datamining I
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2003, 2005, 2007
  • Datamining II
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2004, 2006
  • Sound Synthesis and Digital Audio Processing
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2004, 2003, 2002
  • Neural Networks I, (with Tanja Kämpfe)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2002
  • Neural Networks II, (with Jochen Steil)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2003

Seminars

  • Tangible Computing, (with Till Bovermann)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2006
  • Co-organisator of ‘Techniques for Simulation and Modeling’, (by Olaf Lenz)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2002
  • Computer Music and Signal Processing of Audio Data
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 1999
  • Auditory Display, (with Peter Meinicke)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2001

Project Seminars/Projects

  • Tangible Data Exploration, (with Till Bovermann)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2007
  • Optimization of Sonification Techniques
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer term 2005
  • Development of a Query-by-Humming System
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, summer 2003
  • Extraction and Exploration of cellular protein patterns (with Tim Nattkemper)
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter term 2001 and summer term 2002
  • Block-Seminar : Datamining I
    Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, winter terms 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
    Block-seminars are one-week full-day units where the students are coached to solve practical datamining problems using the computer.

Tutorials/Summer University

  • Tutorial: Sonification of EEG and other Biomedical Data (together with Gerold Baier), half-day tutorial at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2006), London, U.K., June 2006
  • Tutorial: Interactive Sonification for Auditory Datamining, full day, held together with Bill Martens and Andy Hunt on the ‘tutorial day’ of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2005), 5th July 2005
  • 2-day course on Sonification and Auditory Display, together with Florian Dombois, Y – Institute for Transdisciplinarity, School of Higher Arts, HKB Bern, Switzerland, April 2005
  • 1-week-seminar ‘Auditory Displays – Alternatives to Visual Inspection of Data’, Summer University, Evang. Studienwerk Villigst (with Florian Dombois as invited co-referent), Schwerte, September 2004