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  That's Till  

Dr. Till Schümmer

Room: 2 G 16
Tel.: 02331 / 987 - 4371
E-Mail: till.schuemmer@fernuni-hagen.de
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Curriculum Vitae

1973 Born in Frankfurt/Main
1993 Finished school with an additional training as certified "Mathematisch-Technischer Assistent" (something like a certified software developer) at the Georg-Kerschensteiner-School, Bad Homburg.
1994-1999 Studies in Computer Science (and protestantic Theology) at the Darmstadt University of Technology
Finished with the Diploma Thesis: TUKAN -- Entwicklung einer kooperativen Software-Konfigurations-Umgebung
that was awarded with the FhG IPSI Best Diploma Thesis of the Year Award (in 1999).
1995-1999 Research Student at the CONCERT division of Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt.
Focus: Participation in the development of the synchronous groupware platform COAST.
1998-2002 Participation in the DFG-sponsored PhD program "Infrastructures for Electronic Commerce" at the Technical University of Darmstadt in cooperation with the CONCERT division of Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt.
Focus:
  • Dynamic group formation in the context of software engineering (TUKAN).
  • Fostering cooperation between customers in eCommerce applications (GAMA-Mall).
Conducted several seminars at the TU Darmstadt.
since March 2002 Member of the scientific staff at the Distributed Systems Division af the FernUniversität in Hagen
July 2005 Received a doctorate degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the FernUniversität in Hagen for the thesis entitled "A Pattern Approach to End-User Centered Groupware Development"
July 2007 Published the book "Patterns for Computer-Mediated Interaction"


Research

My research interests lie in the following areas:
  • CSCW and CSCL,
  • distributed systems,
  • Software Engineering and Agile Methods,
  • Design Patterns, and
  • Cooperative Games.
My PhD Thesis focuses on Design Patterns for group formation and maintenance.

I am (or have been) responsible for the technical development in following research projects at PI VI:
  • FUB - A tool for supporting distributed collaborative exercises.
  • CURE - The new collaborative Learning Platform at the Distance University of Hagen.
  • MAPPER - An EU project focusing on "Model-based Adaptive Product and Process Engineering"

Co-Organized Conferences and Workshops:
  • EuroPLoP 2008 (program chair)
  • DeLFI 2008 (Workshop on technopedagogical Design Patterns - in German)
  • EuroPLoP 2007 (conference chair)
  • CHI2004 Workshop on Human-Computer-Human-Interaction Patterns
  • ECSCW2003 Workshop: From Good Practices to Patterns
  • CSCW2002 Workshop on Socio-Technical Pattern Languages

Books / Journals:
PC Membership:
  • XP 2004-2005
  • EuroPLoP 2005-2008
  • WikiSym 2007
  • CRIWG2006-2007

Reviewer at the Following Conferences:
  • Interacting with Computers
  • IEEE Software
  • JBCS (Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society)
  • CHI 2005
  • Hypertext 2005
  • CRIWG 2005
  • CSCW 2006
  • e-Society 2006
  • CCE 2007
Teaching

I have been conducting several seminars and participated in the support of several courses. A full list is available on the German version of this page.

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