Media Computer Science

Media informatics is the part of informatics that deals with all aspects of the generation, preparation and processing, distribution, presentation and use of digital media and the design of multimedia and multimodal information systems.

As an applied computer science, media informatics deals with all aspects of generation, coding, processing, distribution and presentation of digital media and the design of multimedia and multimodal information systems. In addition to the development of operative systems, the scientific modeling of such systems also belongs to the subject area of ​​media informatics.

Examples of such systems are:

• Cooperative communication systems and their support by digital media
• Multimedia applications in the field of e-learning or electronic publishing and the infrastructure required for them (classes of information systems that can be assigned to the various stages of the digital media production chain)
• Adaptive and personalized media systems that support and optimize new forms of media usage
• Media systems that can be controlled and used via different interaction and communication modes, especially with regard to mobile applications

Research in Media Informatics

The media informatics in Regensburg has a wide range of research, ranging from methodical aspects of software development (software and multimedia engineering) to dealing with questions of the design of multimedia and multimodal systems to the question of information retrieval (information retrieval, tagging) and to Management and analysis of large text corpora (text mining, text technology) is enough. She is currently also involved in setting up an interdisciplinary focus on visual studies.

Interdisciplinary science

Media informatics is applied computer science and therefore uses the method repertoire of computer science. The peculiarities of its reference area media mean that media informatics also touches on humanities and social sciences as well as artistic-aesthetic aspects. It is therefore a genuinely interdisciplinary field of work at the intersection of computer science, mathematics, media technology, information science, art science, media science, philology(s), psychology, education, art and business administration.