EXPO 2019 16.10.2019

16 October 2019, by Björn Schmidt

Photo: Carina Volkmer

This year, Björn Schmidt from base.camp organized the EXPO at our department again after a year's break. On Wednesday, 16.10.2019, 20 exhibitors were able to present their projects/final papers to a broad audience. During the two-hour event the students had the opportunity to show the results of their work to fellow students, professors, prospective students and also company representatives.

Many different working areas were present with exhibits and provided for a colourful programme. The projects had prepared very interesting and interactive live demonstrations or poster demonstrations and presented them to the EXPO guests in room D-125/129.

Among the interested visitors were the representatives of the jury, who had the task of selecting the three best projects and awarding prizes. The jury consisted of four members: Prof. Dr. Bittner from the WISTS division, Dr. Wiedemann from LT, Mr. Stark from IBM and Dr. Abels from the company ppi. After two hours, the jury met to award the winners after 40 minutes of discussion.

First place:

The first prize, a Samsung tablet sponsored by ppi, went to Inga Kempfert, who convinced both the audience and the jury with her project "SCoT - Sense Clustering over Time" from the Language Technology department.

Second place:

Second place went to Tim Pietz and Leonie van der Veen for their project "Speech Separation/separation of multi-speaker recordings" from the Signal Processing department. For this they received 300 Euros, sponsored by IBM.

Third place:

The winner of the third prize is Karolin Ney with her VR project "Visualization of Self-Compassion in Space: A Pilot Study on the Application of VR in Subclinical Paranoid Individuals" of the Human-Computer-Interaction Research Group. The prize for third place was 150 euros from HIForum.

The event ended at 17:00 hrs. The base.camp would like to thank all participants for the smooth and good course of the event and all the hard-working helpers, without whom it would not have been possible. We would also like to thank the jury members and sponsors for their dedicated efforts in selecting the winning projects.

Hopefully until next year!