Networks and distributed
systems
University of
Bielefeld - Faculty
of technology
Works and projects
|Main|Lecture|WWW-Design|WS
1996/97|
Theoretical works and essays
- Structure and technique of the World Wide Web
- Technique of client-server interaction, http protocol
- mime types, secure server protocols, dns
- taken by Peter Ladkin,
Karsten Loer and Ahmed
A. Faisal
- de exploratio et navigatio
- Techniques and algorithms of search engines
- taken by Fares Achwan
- Java(Script) and/or other security breaches
- Essay on the newest security bugs, their explanation, prevention,
- source code and executables
- taken by Thorsten
Gerdsmeier and Michael
Schramm
Introductions and guides
- Design of homepages
- Guidelines, principles and must-have`s
- Introduction to Frames
- How and why to use frames and a guide with examples
- Introduction to Java script
- How to program and a guide with practical examples
- taken by Stefan Kurtz
Psychological and statistical works
- Psychology of colors
- How do colors convey intention ?
- Which colors are most attractive ?
- Which colors are most comfortable to eyes ?
- Experiments on information thruput (structure)
- Psychological experiments with different information architectures
- How long does it take to reach the requested information ?
- Hierarchical (strong and weak), circular, plain and hybrids (crosslinked)
- structures should be subjected to analysis
- analyzed by Annette Sander,
Carsten Meyer and Jörg
Ostermann
- Experiments on information thruput (design)
- Psychological experiments with different information designs
- How long does it take to reach the requested information ?
- Different types of interface designs (linked, iconed, text-only, hybrids,
- imagemapped) should be subjected to analysis
Practical projects
- Automatic link tester (Java or CGI)
- A Java or CGI based WWW-service, which should
- test the validity of the links, on a supplied URL
- processed by Jörg
Schmitz and Andreas
König
- WWW-Site update notifier (CGI or Java)
- Users who want to be notified on major modifications of a WWW site
- may subscribe an eMail bulletin (via forms on the related documents)
- The data should be stored and eMail notifiers sent, if the WWW site
- developer whishes
- processed by Paul
A. Petershagen and Marco
Groening
- HTML online reference manual (Java or CGI)
- Interactive WWW-based manual on HTML and its extensions
- Guestbook (CGI or Java)
- A Guestbook for WWW sites, where people can leave messages
- and be used as a group blackboard (a kind of WWW based log,
- with naive password protection (for reading and writing)
- processed by Wing-Chung
Li
- Meta-Search engine (CGI or Java)
- A unique search mask for AltaVista, Yahoo and Webcrawler, which will
- query parallezing the answers and displaying them in one index
- processed by Marcel
Holtmann
- Keyword search on WWW site (CGI or Java)
- Search for keywords in documents on the local WWW site
- It should be possible to AND or OR the search terms.
- processed by Dirk
Stößel and Timo
Thomas
- VRML-virtual explorable city (Bielefeld)
- Using the VRML 1.0 and 2.0 virtual reality language
- build a 3-dimensional modell of Bielefeld (basic landscapes),
- exterior detail of Bielefeld more important ;) buildings and
- buildings which are connected to the internet (link gateways).
- The route of the planned and existing subway should be integrated,
- The VRML - virtual explorable university modell
will be integrated
- into the Bielefeld Modell by its authors
- take by Andreas Kaiser
and J. Han
Already running projects, which can be entered
- KVV2HTML 2.0
- A WWW-based tool, where lecturers can enter their
- course information, which will then write out a WWW-
- KVV (commented course timetable)
- continued by Claus
Claves, Stefan Kopp and
Markus Reinsch
- VRML-Uni 2.0
- An virtual-reality-interface to the University of Bielefeld, part
- of the VRML - virtual reality project
- For further information please contact vrxuni@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
For further information please contact wwwdesign@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de
Created 15.10.199
by Ahmed A. Faisal