Fraunhofer FOKUS

Contact Person

Dr.-Ing. Stephan Steglich

Director

Business Unit FAME

Tel.: +49 30 3463-7373

Dr.-Ing. Stefan Arbanowski

Director

Business Unit FAME

Tel.: +49 30 3463-7197

Intelligent Services and Applications – interactive, personalized, everywhere

The FOKUS Business Unit Future Applications and Media (FAME) hosts all the technical know-how needed for the realization of interactive media applications: services that can be converged on multiple media platforms, and personalizable services that enable interaction with a broad array of end devices. In all their work, the experts at FAME make consistent use of Web-based technologies. Moreover, they also play active roles in standardization committees (including ETSI, HbbTV, DASH-IF and W3C), support customers in the development of interoperable solutions, evaluate them and engineer showcases for visualization of their possible functionalities.

Smart Learning Recommenders extend traditional Learning Management Systems

Award for paper on Smart Learning Recommender

News from Thu., June 02, 2016

Two papers of our business unit “Future Applications and Media – FAME” on Smart Learning Recommender (SLR) were awarded and nominated at different conferences in April and May 2016. SLR extends traditional Learning Management Systems with the time value in order to respect the changing knowledge level in a continuous time interval.

360 degree technologies at Media Convention 2016

News from Tue., April 26, 2016

On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2016, at Media Convention, Fraunhofer FOKUS in cooperation with ARTE will showcase 360 degree technologies. With these technologies high-definition movies of the ARTE360-App will be shown on a dome as well as on a television.

Supporting large-scale events in the smart city

News from Mon., March 21, 2016

As part of the South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences and Festivals, that took place between the 11th and 20th of March 2016 in Austin/Texas, Prof. Ina Schieferdecker (Director of the institute Fraunhofer FOKUS) and Dr. Stephan Steglich (Director of the Business Unit FAME) gave a lecture on »Without Borders: Social TV-App Supports Mega Events«. The lecture was held in the »German Haus«.

Cooperation with Deutsche Telekom: "Immmr" will compete with WhatsApp

News from Fri., March 04, 2016

From February 22 to 25, 2016, Deutsche Telekom presented a new communication app at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. The technical basis for the app was developed by Telekom Innovation Laboratories in cooperation with Fraunhofer FOKUS.