While Touch & Write encourages team work, it also required a huge team effort to reach the current state. The project is lead by Marcus Liwicki. For any questions related to the project please contact him: marcus.liwicki . at . dfki.de.
Marcus Liwicki
The Touch & Write project was initiated by Marcus Liwicki, who created the table. He also began with the development of the first applications on the environment. The first project was to enhanced the existing photo organiser application to allow for handwritten comments and annotations.
Marcus Liwicki received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2004, and his PhD degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2007. Currently he is a senior researcher and lecturer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). His research interests include knowledge management, semantic desktop, electronic pen-input devices, on-line and off-line handwriting recognition and document analysis.
Dr. phil. nat. Marcus Liwicki (PhD)
Senior Researcher
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Trippstadter Str. 122
67663 Kaiserslautern
Marcus.Liwicki . at . dfki.de
Saher El-Neklawy
Saher El-Neklawy designed the multitouch enabled concept mapping solution for the Touch & Write. Under the guidance of Marcus Liwicki he wrote his Bachelor Thesis about this topic and developed intuitive input metaphors for accessing the applications. He is going to finish his thesis by the end of July and will continue to enhance the application to be a GUI for the Social Semantic Desktop.
Andreas Dengel
Andreas Dengel is the head of the Knowledgemanagement group and supports the whole project with many suitful contributions.
David Haase
David Haase provided many of the hardware parts. He further design and constructed most of the electronics involved with Touch & Write.
Thomas Reifferscheid
Thomas Reifferscheid is porting the existing Google Maps API in flash for Touch & Write.
Markus Weber
Markus Weber is working on a general Java API for developing applications on multitouch environments.