Recent projects

Popcuts

I'm the cofounder of Popcuts, an online music store that gives back to fans. You buy a song and get paid everytime it sells again.

The Bubblegum Sequencer

Physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software.

iSchoolWhatsup

Social status aggregator for a kiosk display in the School of Information masters lounge. Collects and displays status information of iSchool students from Facebook, Twitter and Google Talk (Google Talk scraper written by Kevin Lim).

The effects of social networking site use on the adjustment process of international high-school exchange students

Research paper for social science course.

Today's headlines around the world

Newspaper rotation for a kiosk display. Data courtesy to Newseum.org, some code taken from Flickr Hacks.

play it by ear

User interface design and development project for a mobile application that enables travelers to explore other cities more spontaneously. It equips people with an enhanced sense of what's happening in their surrounding, allowing them to "play it by ear."

MMChat

MMChat is a design project for a threaded chat client that visualizes its discussion branches in a tree or mindmap-like manner.

Email classification for semi-automated reply generation

Machine learning project for applied natural language processing course.

Diploma thesis

For my undergraduate final thesis, I developed a method and working prototype of an imaging application for cancer research in pathology. The paper is called "Semi-automatic quantification of immunohistochemical specimen using image analysis."

Museum Guide for Berlinische Galerie

Developed frontend for a handheld multimedia museum guide prototype. The application is based on HTML and Flash, runs on wifi-enabled Windows mobile devices (provided by the museum) and includes a streaming audio player.

yfu.de

Designed and implemented from the ground up the relaunch of a medium-sized website (~300 pages) with a graphical content management system. Alongside a content and design group, made technology decisions and developed software and information architecture.

yfu-bremen.de

Developed intranet / online community for large volunteer organization, including user management, news article and photo gallery system, discussion boards, integration in larger IT infrastructure. Consulted on nationwide intranet planning and architecture.