After successful completion of the course, students are able to...

• conduct a state of the art (literature) research with respect to a given problem specification and categorize its results
• analyze the found scientific approaches and results and to discuss them in a seminar paper
• present and discuss these scientific solutions and results

Seminar on special topics in the area of medical informatics with a focus on Information Visualization (InfoVis), Visual Analytics, and Information Design.

Topics: http://www.cvast.tuwien.ac.at/topics

TUWEL: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=30442

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Within the context of the seminar, the student is guided by individual supervision to independently work on the given problem. This includes...

• a literature research on possible solutions for the given problem
• a critical analysis of the approaches found
• a derivation and discussion of results in the form of a written seminar paper

Another important part of the seminar is exercising "presentation skills" in the context of the final presentation of the work.

ECTS Breakdown

     
3 ECTS = 75 hours      
5   Lectures
25   Literature search and reading
30   Writing a state-of-the art report
5   Paper review
8   Presentation
2   Class discussion
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75  

• Quality of the seminar paper
• Presentation of research results
• Discussion and defence of the chosen approach with the other seminar participants