News

November 4^th 2005
2^nd visit of Mr J. Taiber, BMW
Presentation of the CRION-environment and the hard- and software prototypes and other researchwork

October 27^th 2005
Visit of Mr Th. Baron, CERN, Genf
Presentation of the CRION-environment and the hard- and software prototypes

October 26^th 2005
Visit of Mr von Sury, NOVIA
Presentation of the CRION-environment and the hard- and software prototypes

October 21^th2005
Visit of Mr J. Taiber, BMW
Presentation of the CRION-environment

September 23^th 2005
The CRION-Card-Suite is implemented and running on the CRION-table
The software is developped by Nils Birkeland, FHSG, the userconcept and the graphical user interface by Th. Kennel, inspire AG

August 15^th - 18^th 2005
Christoph Ganser presents a paper of the CRION-team at the ICED 2005 in Sidney with the title: "Computer Supported Environment for Creativity Processes in Globally Distributed Teams"

July 13^th2005
Visit of Mr Urs Steiner, CEO AVS
Presentation of the CRION-environment

June 29^th 2005
CRION-Meeting with following topics:

• state of affairs/project
• general/administrative informations
• presentation and demonstration of the prototype of the CRION-table
• introduction of ideas for a succeeding project CRION 2
  • CRION DCM 'Digitale Concept Model and datamanagementsystem for CRION-data', Jan Hoffmann
  • TUIs 'novel intuitive interactiondevices', Christoph Ganser
  • CollaBoard 'a vertical interactionsurface with video-integration of the presenter, Martin Küchler

June 24^th 2005
The optical tracking-system, developped by Christoph Ganser works togehter with the CRION-table, the CRION-pen and further devices

June 22^th 2005
First CRION-pen in final design is finished

June 10^th 2005
Presentation of the swedish student Samira Andersson's semesterwork with the title: " Development of TUI with New Functioal Capabilities"
(TUI = Tangible User Interface)

June 5^th2005
The CTI Bern appropriates a cost overtime of the project until november 31^th and a redistibution of the fund corresponding effective expenses

April 23^th2005
Schweizerischer Moderatorenmarktplatz in Nottwil. Th. Kennel holds a workshop with the title "Zukunftsvisionen der Moderation"

April 19^th 2005
Beat Signer, Institute of Informtion Ssystems, shows the "streaming Anoto-Pen"
First tests of this technology in a backprojection environment (CRION) fails

April 15^th 2005
All hardware of the CRION-table ist finished

April 6^th 2005
The workstation and the LCD-screens for the prototype of the CRION-table are delivered by our industry-partner Siemens

February 11^th 2005
Presentation of Franz Schnyder's diplomawork with the title: "Projektorientiertes Zusammenarbeiten heute und morgen"

November 11^th 2004
A delegation of Itosys GmbH visits the CRION-Team at the ETH

November 1^st 2004
The project CRION officially changes from ZPE Center for product development ETH Zurich to inspire AG, a center of competence of the ETH. Inspire ist affilated to the IWF, Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH

October 27^th 2004
An ETH-CRION-delegation visits BISONS System AG in Sursee. Presentation of the systems "ItoMove" by Itosys GmbH, D-66822 Lebach
www.itosys.de

September 29^th 2004
An ETH-CRION-delegation visits the CCG AG. Presentation "Holo Screen"
www.ccg.ch

September 24^th 2004
Presentation of Adrian Steinemann's semester work with the title: "Entwicklung eines Gruppenarbeitsplatzes mit optisch getrackten Interaktionstools"
14:00 Uhr, ETH Zürich, CLA E32
following

14:30 CRION-Meeting
with following topics:
- Informations to the state of development of the CRION-software, Nils Birkeland FH St. Gallen
- ETH - ICVR - INSPIRE "Umgebungsänderung für die CRION Umgebung", Prof. Konrad Wegener, Andreas Kunz
- Presentation "Bridgit - Data Conferencing Software von Smart Technologies", A. von Sury, Novia AG
- Presentation "Microsoft - Siemens OPEN SCAPE", R. Wohlgemuth, Siemens Schweiz AG
- Discussion "Konzept für die Umsetzung der Projektergebnisse"
- planed tasks, open questions,
afterwards CRION-Apéro

July 12^th 2004
Adrian Steinemann starts his semester work with the thesis: "Gruppenarbeitsplatz mit optisch getrackten aktiven Interaktionstools"

June 30^th 2004
Presentation of Sem Hediger's semester work with the title: "Konzeption und Installation einer mehrkanaligen VC-Umgebung für CRION"

Presentation of Florian Wegmann's semester work with the title: "Design eines Kreativitäts- und Kommunikations-Arbeitsplatzes"

June 16^th 2004
Workshop with the subjects: "Anforderungen an den Raum der Zukunft" and "Wie bringt man reale und virtuelle Personen sinnvoll in eine gemeinsame Umgebung"
Location: "Alte Gipsi" Rumisberg
followed by a CRION-barbecue at Th. Kennel's place in Farnern

May, 26^th 2004
Presentation of Manuel Schwager's semester work with the title: "Entwicklung eines optisch getrackten Multiuser-Interaktionstools"
2:00 AM, ETH Zurich, CLA E32
followed by

2:30 AM Half-time CRION-Meeting
Short presentation of the current semester works by Sem Hediger and Florian Wegmann
followed by an apéro

May 13^th 2004
An ETH-CRION-delegation visits the industrial partner Siemens. Visit of the Siemens Inforama

May 7^th 2004
An ETH-CRION-delegation visits the industrial partner NOVIA in Rümlang

May 5^th 2004
Visiting the industrial partner NextPractice at the Personal Swiss, Messe Zürich

April, 5^th 2004
Sem Hediger starts his semester work with the thesis: "Entwicklung einer Videokonferenzlösung zur Verknüpfung zweier Gruppenarbeitsplätze".

Florian Wegmann starts his semester work at Alois Breiing with the thesis: "Creatable "Design eines Kreativitäts-und Kommunikations-Arbeitsplatzes".

March, 5^th 2004
The tracking system POLARIS is delivered from our industrial partner NDI, after multiple problems at customs.

February, 11^th 2004
Presentation of the diploma work of Rouven Küng with the title: "Design und Implementierung einer Kreativitäts-Software X35 für Tablet-PC"
11:00 AM, ETH Zurich, CLA E32

Januar, 8^th 2004
The CRION homepage was hidden in the ICVR homepage and hard to find, has now a short URL: www.crion.ethz.ch

November, 26^th 2003
The additional contracts, required by KTI, were accepted by ETH-Transfer and signed by the vice president of research at ETH.
All industrial partners receive an additional contract to sign, together with the original KTI contract as their individual document.

October, 29^th 2003
The contracts circulated in the consortium and were signed by all project partners.

July 16^th 2003
Kick-off Meeting
2.00 P.M. ETH Zurich, Tannenstrasse 3, CLA E16.2

May 28^th 2003
The contracts arrived per post mail from Berne.

May 1^st 2003
KTI discussed the project proposal and accepted it.

April 23^rd 2003
The additional information that Berne asked for were passed in.

April 15^th 2003
KTI requires additional information on the financial planning and on the industrial partners.

December 11^th 2002
The KTI proposal is sent to Berne.

November 11^th 2002
The project team is complete. The 4 research partners are supported by four industrial partners.

July 16^th 2002
The KTI proposal is ready now in a reviewed version.
However, some industrial partners are still missing. The acquisition starts.

April 15^th - 20^th 2002
"SpeakersCorner 2" is presented at the Hannover industrial exhibition as the only research project from ETH.

February 5^th - 8^th 2002
"SpeakersCorner 2" is presented at the "Learntec" exhibition in Karlsruhe.

October 22^nd 2001
"SpeakersCorner 1" is presented at ETH and from now used in the lecture of Prof. Markus Meier.

November 7^th 2001
The idea of "CRION" is officially presented at ETH for the first time and started as a pre-project.

July 4^th 2001
"SpeakersCorner 0" is presented as a prototype at ETH.

March 17^th 2000
The idea "Team-it", a digital, interactive workspace that supports simultaneous interaction and "SpeakersCorner", a digital, interactive multimedia lectern are presented to the head of the institute by Thomas Kennel.