Wolfdieter Merkl
Ao.Univ.Prof. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Dr.rer.soc.oec.
Research Focus
- Information Systems Engineering: 50%
- Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology: 50%
Research Areas
- Machine Learning, Electronic Commerce, Information Retrieval, Neurocomputing, Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction
About
art history, machine learning, e-learning, games
Role
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Associate Professor
Data Science, E194-04
Courses
2022W
- Bachelor Thesis for Informatics and Business Informatics / 188.944 / PR
- E-Marketing / 194.040 / PR
- Research Seminar for Ph.D. Students / 188.423 / SE
- Social Media / 188.956 / VU
2023S
- Bachelor Thesis for Informatics and Business Informatics / 188.944 / PR
- E-Marketing / 194.034 / VO
- Information Search on the Internet / 188.484 / VU
- Innovation / 188.915 / VU
- Research Seminar for Ph.D. Students / 188.423 / SE
- Scientific Research and Writing / 193.052 / SE
Projects
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The Virtual 3D Social Experience Museum
2009 – 2013 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Publications
Note: Due to the rollout of TU Wien’s new publication database, the list below may be slightly outdated. Once APIs for the new database have been released, everything will be up to date again.
2019
- Data-Driven Maps of Art History / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / International Journal of Art, Culture and Design Technologies (IJACDT), 8 (2019), 1; 1 - 15
2018
- Visualizing Art Historical Developments using the Getty ULAN, Wikipedia and Wikidata / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Information Visualization, Salerno, Italy; 2018-07-10 - 2018-07-12; in: "2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV)", IEEE, (2018), ISBN: 978-1-5386-7202-0; 459 - 466
2016
- Bilder der Kunstgeschichte in der Getty ULAN und in Wikipedia / D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: EVA Berlin 2016 Conference, Berlin; 2016-11-09 - 2016-11-11; in: "EVA Berlin 2016", (2016)
2014
- Collectivizing the Barr Model / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Leonardo, 47 (2014), 3
2013
- Comparing Art Historical Networks / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Leonardo, 46 (2013), 3; 279
- Art History Concepts at Play with ThIATRO / J. Froschauer, W. Merkl, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb / ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 6 (2013), 2; 1 - 15
2012
- Netzwerkanalyse von kunsthistorischen Attributen anhand von Social Tags / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2012 Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2012-11-07 - 2012-11-09; in: "EVA 2012 Berlin Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie", (2012), ISBN: 978-3-942709-05-7; 138 - 144
- Analysing User Motivation in an Art Folksonomy / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz, Austria; 2012-09-05 - 2012-09-07; in: "Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies", ACM, New York, NY (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4503-1242-4; 13:1 - 13:8
- A Serious Heritage Game for Art History: Design and Evaluation of ThIATRO / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2012, Mailand, Italien; 2012-09-02 - 2012-09-05; in: "18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM)", IEEE, (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4673-2565-3; 283 - 290
- Learning about Art History by Exploratory Search, Contextual View and Social Tags / M. Arends, M. Weingartner, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Rome, Italy; 2012-07-04 - 2012-07-06; in: "12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies", (2012), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4702-2; 395 - 399
- ARTournament: A Mobile Casual Game to Explore Art History / J. Froschauer, J. Zweng, W. Merkl, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner / Talk: 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Rom, Italien; 2012-07-04 - 2012-07-06; in: "12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies", (2012), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4702-2; 80 - 84
- Art History on Wikipedia, a Macroscopic Observation / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Talk: ACM Web Science 2012, Evanston, Illinois, USA; 2012-06-22 - 2012-06-24; in: "Proceedings of the ACM WebSci'12", ACM, (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4503-1228-8; 163 - 168
2011
- Exploring Art History Content by Presenting Artworks in Context / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin, Berlin; 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-11; in: "Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin", (2011), ISBN: 978-3-942709-01-9; 154 - 160
- Tag Analysis of an Art Folksonomy / M. Weingartner, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin, Berlin; 2011-11-09 - 2011-11-11; in: "Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts - EVA 2011 Berlin", A. Bienert, F. Weckend, J. Hemsley, V. Cappellini (ed.); Berlin (2011), ISBN: 978-3-942709-01-9; 138 - 144
- Revisiting 3D information landscapes for the display of art historical web content / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl / Talk: 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Lissabon, Portugal; 2011-11-08 - 2011-11-11; in: "ACE '11 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology", ACM, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0827-4; Paper ID 46, 8 pages
- Analysing User Generated Content Related to Art History / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, Graz; 2011-09-07 - 2011-09-09; in: "Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies", ACM, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0732-1
- Combining Cultural Heritage Related Web Resources in 3D Information Landscapes / D. Goldfarb, M. Arends, J. Froschauer, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011), London, UK; 2011-07-06 - 2011-07-08; in: "Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2011)", BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, (2011), ISBN: 978-1-906124-88-5; 73 - 80
- Designing Serious Games in a Socio-Cultural Context / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Poster: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2011, Portugal, Lissabon; 2011-06-27 - 2011-07-01; in: "World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2011", T. Bastiaens, M. Ebner (ed.); EdITLib Digital Library for Education & Information Technology, (2011), 2190 - 2196
- Designing Socio-Cultural Learning Games: Challenges and Lessons Learned / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, M. Weingartner, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, UK; 2011-06-27 - 2011-06-29; in: "International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011)", IEEE CS Press, (2011), ISBN: 978-0-9564263-8-3; 56 - 61
- Towards an Online Multiplayer Serious Game Providing a Joyful Experience in Learning Art History / J. Froschauer, M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl / Talk: 2011 Third International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications VS-Games 2011, Athen, Griechenland; 2011-05-04 - 2011-05-06; in: "2011 Third International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications VS-Games 2011", F. Liarokapis, A. Doulamis, V. Vescoukis (ed.); IEEE CS Press, (2011), ISBN: 978-0-7695-4419-9; 160 - 163
- Museums on the Web: Interaction with Visitors / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / in: "Handbook of Research on Technologies and Cultural Heritage: Applications and Environments", issued by: University of Ioannina, Greece; IGI Global, Hershey, PA, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-60960-044-0, 142 - 165
2010
- Interaktion mit musealen Inhalten in Web3D / M. Arends, J. Froschauer, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: EVA 2010 Berlin - Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie, Berlin, Deutschland; 2010-11-10 - 2010-11-12; in: "Konferenzband EVA 2010 Berlin - Elektronische Medien & Kunst, Kultur, Historie", Gesellschaft zur Förderung angewandter Informatik e.V., (2010), ISBN: 9783981215885; 161 - 167
- Design and Evaluation of a Serious Game for Immersive Cultural Training / J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, Seoul, Korea; 2010-10-20 - 2010-10-23; in: "International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia", IEEE CS Press, (2010), ISBN: 9781424490257; 253 - 260
2009
- Interaction With Art Museums On The Web / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: IADIS Int'l Conference WWW/Internet 2009, Rom; 2009-11-19 - 2009-11-22; in: "Proceedings of the IADIS Int'l Conference WWW/Internet 2009", P. Isaias, B. White, M.B. Nunes (ed.); IADIS Press, (2009), ISBN: 978-972-8924-93-5; 117 - 124
- Mobile Devices in a Museum Environment / M. Arends, D. Goldfarb, W. Merkl, M. Weingartner / Talk: The Second International Workshop on Information Technology and Tourism and Open Mobile Networks San Sebastian, Spain, San Sebastian (invited); 2009-11-19 - 2009-11-20
- E-Learn 2009: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education / J. Froschauer, I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada; 2009-10-26 - 2009-10-30; in: "Proceedings of the World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education", (2009), 8 pages
- An agent-based centralized e-marketplace in a virtual environment / I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, J. Froschauer, H. Berger, W. Merkl / Talk: 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Boston, MA; 2009-07-01 - 2009-07-03; in: "Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering", Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, (2009), ISBN: 1-891706-24-1; 218 - 221
- Itchy Feet: A 3D e-Tourism Environment / I. Seidel, M. Gärtner, M. Pöttler, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl / in: "Tourism Informatics: Visual Travel Recommender Systems, Social Communities, and User Interface Design", N. Sharda (ed.); IGI Global, Hershey, PA 17033, USA, 2009, ISBN: 978-1605668185, 209 - 242
2008
- A Synthetic 3D Multimedia Environment / R. Genswaider, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer, W. Merkl, A. Rauber, T. Lidy / in: "Computational Intelligence in Multimedia Processing: Recent Advances", Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-76826-5, 79 - 98
- Tourist type profiling in Web 3d: A Second Life experience / W. Merkl, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer / in: "Proceedingsw of the IADIS Int'l Conference on Information Systems 2008", issued by: IADIS - Int'l Organization for the Development of the Information Society; Proceedings of the IADIS Int'l Conference on Information Systems, IADIS Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-972-8924-57-7, 29 - 36
2007
- Photo-Based User Profiling for Tourism Recommender Systems / H. Berger, M. Denk, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer, W. Merkl / Talk: EC-Web, Regensburg, Germany; 2007-09-03 - 2007-09-07; in: "E-Commerce and Web Technologies", G. Psaila, R. Wagner (ed.); Springer, LNCS 4655 (2007), ISBN: 3-540-74562-9; 46 - 55
- Shaping 3D Multimedia Environments: The Media Square / M. Dittenbach, H. Berger, R. Genswaider, A. Pesenhofer, A. Rauber, T. Lidy, W. Merkl / Talk: International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2007-07-09 - 2007-07-11; in: "Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval", (2007), ISBN: 978-1-59593-733-9; 4 pages
- Quo Vadis Homo Turisticus? Towards a Picture-Based Tourist Profiler / H. Berger, M. Denk, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Pesenhofer / Talk: ENTER Conference 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2007-02; in: "Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism", M. Sigala (ed.); (2007), ISBN: 978-3-211-69564-7; 87 - 96
- Opening new dimensions for e-tourism / H. Berger, M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Bogdanovych, S. Simoff, C. Sierra / Virtual Reality, 11 (2007), 2-3; 75 - 87
2003
- A natural language query interface for tourism information / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, H. Berger / Talk: Int. Conf. on Infomation and Communication Technologies in Tourism ENTER 2002, Helsinki, Finland; 2003-01-29 - 2003-01-31; in: "Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER'03)", Springer-Verlag, (2003), ISBN: 3-211-83910-0; 152 - 162
- Text Mining in the SOMLib Digital Library System: The Representation of Topics and Genres / A. Rauber, W. Merkl / Applied Intelligence, 18 (2003), 3; 271 - 293
- The SOM-enhanced JukeBox: Organization and Visualization of Music Collections based on Perceptual Models / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / Journal of New Music Research, 32 (2003), 2; 193 - 210
2002
- Organizing and Exploring High-Dimensional Data with the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, A. Rauber / in: "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD02)", Nanyang Technical University Singapore, Singapore, 2002, ISBN: 9810475365
- Using Psycho-Acoustic Models and Self-Organizing Maps to Create a Hierarchical Structuring of Music by Musical Styles / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2002)", IRCAM, 2002, ISBN: 2844261663, 13 - 17
- Content-based Music Indexing and Organization / A. Rauber, E. Pampalk, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2002)", ACM, 2002, ISBN: 1581135610, 409 - 410
- Content-based Organization and Visualization of Music Archives / E. Pampalk, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM MM02)", ACM, 2002, ISBN: 158113620x, 570 - 579
- Using Smoothed Data Histograms for Cluster Visualization in Self-Organizing Maps / E. Pampalk, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / in: "Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2002)", Springer, 2002, ISBN: 3540440747, 871 - 876
- Uncovering Hierarchical Structure in Data Using the Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map / M. Dittenbach, A. Rauber, W. Merkl / Neurocomputing, 48 (2002), 1-4; 199 - 216
- The Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Map: Exploratory Data Analysis of High-Dimensional Data / A. Rauber, W. Merkl, M. Dittenbach / IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13 (2002), 6; 1331 - 1341
- Free Speech for Tourists / M. Dittenbach, W. Merkl, H. Berger / in: "Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Conference on Information Systems", issued by: A. Wenn, M. McGrath, F. Burstein; Australian Computer Society, Melbourne, Australia, 2002, ISBN: 1862726159, 1145 - 1154
Supervisions
Note: Due to the rollout of TU Wien’s new publication database, the list below may be slightly outdated. Once APIs for the new database have been released, everything will be up to date again.
- Uncovering and Comparing Large-Scale Art History Narratives in Biographical Datasets / Doctoral Thesis by D. Goldfarb / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, V. Petras, A. Rauber; Institut für Information Systems Engineering, 2020
- Sentiment analysis of public information to predict stock market movements / Master Thesis by J. Brom / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Information Systems Engineering, 2018
- Testing Perceptual Preference. Development and Evaluation of Computer Based Methods for Testing Perceptual Preference / Doctoral Thesis by G. Salamon / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, B. Berendt, G. Futschek; 188, 2017; oral examination: 2017-11-29
- Ontology-based software development : semantically enhanced information management and software component reuse in the air traffic management industry / Doctoral Thesis by E. Gringinger / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, G. Futschek, M. Stumptner; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2017
- Comparison of Wikipedia articles in different languages / Master Thesis by N. Rajcic / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2017
- Analysis of the social network amongst artists on Wikipedia / Master Thesis by T. C. Solich / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2016
- Context-aware sentiment analysis : a lexicon-based machine learning approach / Master Thesis by S. Gindl / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2015
- Twitter usage in Austria : a behavioral analysis about the Twitter usage in Austria and the surrounding border / Master Thesis by A. Müllner / Supervisor: W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2015
- Establishment and Integration of Best Practices for Project Management in Virtual Teams within the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) / Doctoral Thesis by M. Pazderka / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009; oral examination: 2009-03-03
- Persuasive Technology: Ambient information systems for residential energy awareness / Doctoral Thesis by K. Kappel / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009
- Design Criteria for an e-Health Infrastructure Network in Emerging Countries - A Case Study in the Middle East / Doctoral Thesis by B. Tappeiner / Supervisor, Reviewer: T. Grechenig, W. Merkl; 183/1, 2009
- Advanced data exploration methods based on Self-Organizing Maps / Doctoral Thesis by G. Pölzlbauer / Supervisor, Reviewer: A. Rauber, W. Merkl; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2008; oral examination: 2008-12-18
- Analyse, Struktur, Managemenet und Kernrisiken von State of Art ID Projekten mit gesamtstaalichern Charakter / Doctoral Thesis by M. Kind / Supervisor, Reviewer: W. Merkl, T. Grechenig; Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, 2007; oral examination: 2007-10-09