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• Staff Members
  • Stephan Diehl
  • Carsten Görg
  • Andreas Kerren
  • Reinhard Wilhelm
  
  
• Student Members
  • Torsten Weller
  
  
• Former Members
  • Beatrix Braune
  • Thomas Kunze

• GANIMAM applet for generating interactive animations of abstract machines
• HeapSort algorithm animation *
• GaniFA applet for the interactive animation of the generation of finite automata from regular expressions and an electronic textbook on generating finite automata which includes the above animation. *
• Example of Focussing in Algorithm Explanation. +

In previous projects other learning software and visualizations have been developed by members of the project team and students of Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm.

Publications

• Generierung interaktiver Animationen von Berechnungsmodellen
  Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren. In Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung, Vol. 17(1), pp. 12-20, Springer Verlag, 2002.
• Preserving the Mental Map using Foresighted Layout
  Stephan Diehl, Carsten Görg and Andreas Kerren. In Proceedings of Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, VisSym 2001, Ascona, Switzerland, 2001.
• Levels of Exploration
  Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren. In Proceedings of the 32nd Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2001, Charlotte, NC, USA, 2001.
• Foresighted Graphlayout
  Stephan Diehl, Carsten Görg and Andreas Kerren. Technical Report A/02/2000, FR 6.2 - Informatik, University of Saarland, December 2000.
• Visual Exploration of Generation Algorithms for Finite Automata
  Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren and Torsten Weller. In Implementation and Application of Automata, LNCS 2088, pp. 327-328, 2001.
• Increasing Explorativity by Generation
  Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, EDMEDIA-2000, AACE, Montreal, Canada, 2000.
• Proceedings of the GI-Workshop "Software Visualization" SV2000
  Eds.: Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren. Technical Report A/01/2000 (in German), FR 6.2 - Informatik, University of Saarland, May 2000.
• Visualization and Animation of the Semantical Analysis of Programs
  Andreas Kerren. In Informatica Didactica, Zeitschrift für fachdidaktische Grundlagen der Informatik (in German), 2000.
• Visualizing Principles of Abstract Machines by Generating Interactive Animations
  Stephan Diehl, Thomas Kunze. In Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 16(7), Elsevier, 2000.
• Focussing in Algorithm Explanation
  Reinhard Wilhelm, Beatrix Braune. In Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 6(1), pp. 1-7, IEEE, 2000.
• Animation of Semantical Analysis
  Andreas Kerren. In Proceedings of "8. GI-Fachtagung Informatik und Schule INFOS99" (in German), pp. 108-120, Informatik aktuell, Springer, 1999.
• Animation of the Generation and Computation of Finite Automata for Learning Software
  Beatrix Braune, Stephan Diehl, Andreas Kerren and Reinhard Wilhelm. In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Implementing Automata WIA'99. Lecture Notes on Computer Science, LNCS 2214, pp. 39-47, Springer, 2001.
• Visualizing Principles of Abstract Machines by Generating Interactive Animations
  Stephan Diehl and Thomas Kunze. In Proceedings of Workshop on Principles of Abstract Machines, Pisa, Italy, 1998.
• Slides of presentation at the Dagstuhl Seminar on New Media in Computer-Science Teaching at University Level, Feb. 1998.
• GANIMAM: Generierung interaktiver Animationen von abstrakten Maschinen
  Stephan Diehl, Andreas Placzek and Thomas Kunze. In Proceedings of "Smalltalk und Java in Industrie und Ausbildung STJA'97", Erfurt, Germany, 1997, pages 185-190.
• Animation of Semantical Analysis
  Andreas Kerren, Master's Thesis (in German), University of Saarland, April 1997.

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• Previous Projects
• CeBit99
• CeBit01
• Press Release
• Evaluation 03.11.2000
• Student job offers (in German)

Contact

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