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Andrea Kohlhase

Dr. Andrea Kohlhase Postdoctoral Fellow/Researcher kwarc at CASE (Center for Advanced Systems Engineering) The SiSsI Project (Software Engineering for Spreadsheet Interaction)
Mailing address Jacobs University Bremen Campus Ring 1 28759 Bremen, Germany	Office Room 169, Research I tel.: +49 421 200 3168 fax: +49 421 xxxxx `A` dot `Kohlhase` at `jacobs-university` dot `de`

After having been associated with the KWARC (Knowledge Adaptation and Reasoning for Content) research group at Jacobs University Bremen under guidance of Prof.Dr. Michael Kohlhase (I know the name coincidence is amazing ...) for a couple of years, since July 2011 I'm actually a working member of the group. Before I worked at the Safe-and-Secure-Systems department at DFKI (German Research Institue for Artificial Intelligence) in Bremen.
I am still very fond of my previous research group dimeb (Digital Media in Education) at the University of Bremen under guidance of Prof. Dr. Heidi Schelhowe.
My research interest lies in the intersection between the fields of "Semantic Web" and "Human-Computer-Interaction", especially Interaction Design for semantic data ("Semantic Interaction Design"), with a focus on educational environments. I have developed the software system CPoint, an invasive, semantic work environment in MS PowerPoint, which allows to enrich PPT documents semantically, which makes use of all this great semantic added-value information, and which provides conversion facilities for transcribing such semantically enhanced PPT documents into OMDoc files.
I developed the SACHS project, in which we built an invasive, semantic help system for the DFKI-internal Controlling System in MS Excel. Some prototypically implemented semantic interactions turned out to be quite nice, for example, "semantic navigation".		At the moment I work for the SiSsI project, in which we explore some more human-spreadsheet interaction and decouple our semantic services from specific spreadsheet players like MS Excel.