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  Elke Moritz
Dipl.-Inform. Elke Moritz

Elke Moritz

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Visiting Research Scholar at the Creative Interactive Visualization Laboratory at the University of California at Irvine, USA, September 2003 - December 2005

Research and Teaching Assistant at the Computer Graphics Group at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, 05/2002 - 08/2003 and 05/2005-09/2005

Received M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 2002 and 1996

Visiting Research Scholar at the NSF Engineering Research Center at Mississippi State University, USA, from September 2001 to February 2002

Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing (CIPIC) at the University of California at Davis, USA, from September 1998 to March 1999

Member of the LinuxTag e.V., organizers of the biggest Linux-Event in Europe

Research Interests   TOP

Virtual Reality
Human Computer Interaction and User Interfaces in Virtual Environments
Biomedical Imaging
Scientific Visualization
Geometric Modelling
Computer Graphics
Linux and Free Software

Research Projects   TOP

Visualization and Interaction in Immersive Environments (Info)
Virtual Exploration of a Cardiovascular System(Info)
MolVis - Virtual Exploration of Proteins - Research in Biomedical Imaging(Info)
Virtual Clay - Rapid Prototyping in VR - Towards Virtual Clay Modelling(Info)

MolVis Virtual Clay MolVis

Publications   TOP

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, Navigational Aspects of an Interactive 3D Exploration System for Cardiovascular Structures, in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2005), Sept. 7-9, 2005, Benidorm, Spain, pp.721-726

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, A Quantitative Analysis Tool for Cardiovascular Systems, in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on BioMechanics (BioMech 2005), Sept. 7-9, 2005, Benidorm, Spain, pp. 121-126

Elke Moritz and Joerg Meyer: Interactive 3D Protein Structure Visualization Using Virtual Reality, in Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering (IEEE BIBE 2004), May 19-21, 2004, Taichung, Taiwan, pp. 503-507

Elke Moritz and Joerg Meyer: Virtual Exploration of Proteins, in Proceedings of the Second IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP), September 9-12, 2002, Malaga, Spain, pp. 757-762

Elke Moritz, Falko Kuester, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, Hans Hagen: Towards Immersive Clay Modelling: Interactive Modelling with Octrees, in Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems VII, John O. Merrit, Stephen A. Benton, Andrew J. Woods, Mark T. Bolas (eds.), Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3957, 2000, SPIE Electronic Imaging, San Jose, pp. 414-422

Elke Moritz: Von Schallplatte zu CD-ROM: CDDA, MP3, CD-R & Co. (From Vinyl to CD-ROM: CD-Recording and Audio Encoding), in LinuxTag 98 Conference Proceedings, and in LinuxMagazin 9/98, 1998, pp. 33-41, ISSN 1432-640X

Journal Publications:

Elke Moritz, Thomas Wischgoll, Joerg Meyer, Comparison of Input Devices and Displays for Protein Visualization, ACM Crossroads, 12.2, Winter 2005, pp.19-26

Elke Moritz: We'll Never Turn Back - Die Amerikanische Bürgerrechtsbewegung (The American Civil Rights Movement), in MJZ - Mainzer Zeitschrift für Jurisprudenz, Heft 10, 2000, 20. Januar 2001, pp. 503-517, ISSN 1615-5025

Elke Moritz: Von Schallplatte zu CD-ROM: CDDA, MP3, CD-R & Co. (From Vinyl to CD-ROM: CD-Recording and Audio Encoding), in LinuxTag 98 Conference Proceedings, and in LinuxMagazin 9/98, 1998, pp. 33-41, ISSN 1432-640X

Conference Publications:

Joerg Meyer, Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, Integrated Visualization and Analysis of a Pig's Cardiovascular System, Scientific Visualization: Challenges for the Future, Seminar No. 05231, June 05-10, 2005, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Demos:
Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, Force-Feedback-Enhanced Navigation for Interactive Visualization of Coronary Vessels, IEEE Visualization 2004, Interactive Demos, Austin, Texas, 2004

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, Quantitative Analysis of Blood Flow in a Cardiovascular System, IEEE Visualization 2003, Interactive Demos, Seattle, Washington, 2003.

Posters:

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, Force-Feedback-Enhanced Navi gation for Interactive Visualization of Coronary Vessels, IEEE Visualization 200 4, Austin, Texas, 2004, Poster Compendium, pp. 137-138

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer: The Vasculature of the Heart: An Interactive Guided Tour. SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California, August 8-12, 2004.

Elke Moritz, Thomas Wischgoll, and Joerg Meyer: Virtual Exploration of a Cardiovascular System. The Fifth University of California Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium (UC Bioengineering Symposium 2004), Irvine, California, June 26-28, 2004.

Thomas Wischgoll, Elke Moritz, and Joerg Meyer, Quantitative Analysis of Blood Flow in a Cardiovascular System, Cal-IT2 Day, University of California, Irvine, 2003.

Thesis:

Elke Moritz: Large-scale Biomolecular Imaging in an Immersive Environment, Master Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, 2002

Elke Moritz: Towards Rapid Prototyping With Immersive Clay Modelling: Exploring Volume Modelling in a Virtual Reality Environment, Project Thesis, University of Kaiserslautern, 2000


Lectures at the University of Kaiserslautern  TOP

Teaching Assistant:
89-030 Proseminar in Computer Graphics (Summer 2003)
89-030 Proseminar in Computer Graphics (Winter 2002/2003)
89-018 Software Laboratory (SWP) (Summer 2002)
Student Teaching Assistant: Tutor for the exercises for
89-009 "Higher Programming Languages (HPS)" (Summer 1999)
89-001 "Introduction to Computer Science" (Winter 1997/1998)

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Girls Go Informatik 2002: invited speaker and presenter on "Bioinformatics" at the "Girls Go Informatik" event, organized by the German Computer Science Society (GI e.V.) in Leipzig and Dortmund

LinuxTag: Founding member of LinuxTag e.V. (1999), since 1997 member of the core-team and the conference program committee of LinuxTag, the largest Linux-Event (Conference and Expo) in Europe

Unix-AG: member since 1995, system administrator from October 1997 to September 1998, member of the local Linux User Group since 1996

University of Kaiserslautern: worked on various projects with the Frauenbüro (Center for Women) from 1995 to 1997, was a tutor for freshmen during the orientation sessions in 1994 and 1996, and a member of the Fachschaftsrat Informatik (Student Committee at the Computer Science Department) from 1994 to 1997

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IEEE Student Member
ACM SIGGRAPH
LinuxTag e.V.
Unix-AG

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SnailMail
Elke Moritz
TU Kaiserslautern
FB Informatik
AG Computergrafik
Erwin-Schroedinger Str.
Postfach 3049
67653 Kaiserslautern
Germany

E-Mail
moritz@unix-ag.uni-kl.de