Showcase

2022 (completed project)
Faculty of Computer Science

Robotopics – Robots in film and literature

Since its beginnings, science fiction has tried to look into the future and has anticipated much with its extrapolations. It's no secret that most of the big technology tycoons from Bezos to Zuckerberg are avowed SF fans. SF is an important source of inspiration and provides models for Silicon Valley's visions of the future and inventions. One of the most popular motifs in SF popular culture is machine people. The lecture tells the story of robots in film and SF literature and questions the desires, hopes, fears or horrors associated with robots. To what extent does this genre influence our ideas about robots?

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Florian Röhrbein (Professur Neurorobotik)
0371 / 531…
florian.roehrbein@…

2022 (completed project)
University Library

Magic Book

Within the project of the University Library jointly with the Professorship of Production Systems and Processes, a “haptic” book was fed with changing virtual database contents. Thanks to OCR-technology they are automatically allocated to the opened page and “as if by magic”, the respective text appears in on-going letters. The “Magic Book”, also optically well shaped by manufacture of custom-fit furnishings, was opened to the public on June 20, 2023 and is since then accessible for all visitors of the University Library at the exhibition space on the 1st level. At first, it is fed with contents regarding the history of the library building (“Alte Aktienspinnerei”) and its users.

Contact:
Dr. Wolfgang Lambrecht (Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz)
Professur Produktionssysteme und -prozesse
0371 / 531…
wolfgang.lambrecht@…

2022 (completed project)
Centre for Knowledge and Technology Transfer / TUClab

City Rally Chemnitz

The project "City Rally Chemnitz" is an interactive scavenger hunt for visitors to the Capital of Culture, locals and interested citizens. With the help of a smartphone, you puzzle your way from place to place alone or in a group. This is an exciting way to discover Chemnitz. The micro project "Stadtrallye Chemnitz" offers online guided scavenger hunts that serve as city tours by providing interesting information at the individual stops. The puzzle tours guide the participants to exciting and worth seeing places in Chemnitz. In order to get further players need to gather information about the just discovered sight as well as to work their way forward to the next station.

Contact:
Joseph Heß (ZWT/TUClab)
Max Rose (Geschäftsführer audory)
0371 / 531…
joseph.hess@…

2022 (completed project)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Urban-Gate

The professorship of Production Systems and Processes is planning to connect different former and current European Capitals of culture via interactive, virtual portals. Together with students of the University of Fine Arts Essen of the course game art & design and the interactive design studio A.MUSE, portals were designed, consisting of a depth camera and a monitor, that allow to capture the movement of the user in front of the portal and to show an anonymized representation on the connected portal. This gesture-based communication is to be used in a playful way in a cultural experiment to build bridges between former and current Capitals of culture or twin cities of Chemnitz. A first prototype was set up at the „Pochen Biennale 2022“ and received a lot of positive feedback. As part of the Capital of culture programme, the portal is planned to be set up in public space for long-term use in 2025.

Contact:
Sven Winkler (Professur Produktionssysteme und -prozesse)
0371 / 531…
sven.winkler@…

2022 (completed project)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Finally art in the university site Erfenschlag!?

In the project, the front of a building extension in the university site of Erfenschlag is to be provided with art that takes up the theme of "transition" and thus the geological transition between the Erzgebirge and the Vorerzgebirge depression that runs right through the university district. By installing foldable slats, viewers are invited to move the surface, folding it open and closed. Two pictures are created, in which two artists present the topic "transition" from their point of view. On the one hand, the geological conditions of the rocks that are underneath the viewer are to be illustrated, and on the other hand, a QR code makes it possible to dive into the rock world with an augmented reality show.

Contact:
Kerstin Lesselt (Künstlerin)
Johann Lucas Lesselt (XR mixed realities)
Susann Hausner (Professur Verbundwerkstoffe und Werkstoffverbunde)
0371 / 531…
susann.hausner@…

2022 (completed project)
Faculty of Humanities

Archiving project

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Clauss
0371 / 531…
martin.clauss@…