Interview with Martin Kocur

Martin Kocur has been a research assistant at the Chair of Media Informatics at the University of Regensburg since 2018. Before that, he completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Media Informatics.

His teaching includes the subjects “Game Engineering”, “Multimedia Technology”, “Advanced Software Engineering” and programming with Android.

In his research, he focuses on “Virtual Reality”, “Serious Games” and eHealth.

Question 1: Mr. Kocur, at which chair / institute at the University of Regensburg do you work?

Chair for Media Informatics

Question 2: Which topics do you mainly teach? Or. In which subject (s) are your events to focus on?

Game Engineering, Multimedia Technology, Web Technologies

Question 3: "Knowledge creates² data" is a cross-faculty project at the University of Regensburg. It combines research efforts in the areas of big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning. How do your events relate to AI? Please describe this reference to us. (Please give us example events / example topics)

Not really related to AI

Question 4: How do you convey this relationship to the students? What do you have to pay particular attention to here with regard to various prior knowledge?

I have very rudimentary knowledge, not to say none at all. Accordingly, I do not impart any knowledge to AI.

Question 5: Building on this, which specialist competencies does the student acquire in the course?

In which course?

Question 6: Why do you think it makes sense to convey AI-related topics to students?

Because this term currently can be heard very often. I have the impression that nobody really knows what AI means (including me)

Question 7: In addition to the courses you hold, you are also involved in research. What are you currently doing here?

With the Proteus Effect in virtual environments

Question 8: Have you already done research on topics that are related to AI? If so, can you give us an example?

Question 9: Now a question about your personal career. What experience do you have in the field of AI? And how did you get your knowledge of AI? (Ex .: training, self-study, etc.)

Absolutely none

Question 10: Do you personally find it easy or difficult to deal with topics that are related to AI?

Haven’t got into it yet. But think it’s hard.

Question 11: What exactly is it that interests / fascinates you particularly about such topics?

–

Question 12: Mr. Kocur, are there currently projects on which you are collaborating with other lecturers on an interdisciplinary basis? If so, can you give us an example of this? And how is the connection to be assessed?

Yes there is. Various projects with which we want to improve human-computer interaction in VR.

Question 13: What is your ideal vision for the future role of AI in higher education? What could be the biggest change in the future compared to the status quo?

Categories

Service

Recent Posts