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title: Andrea Kohlhase
fullname: Prof. Dr. Andrea Kohlhase
pic: public/images/akohlhase.jpg
start_date: 2005-12
end_date: 2014-08
affiliation: Hochschule Neu-Ulm
website: https://www.hs-neu-ulm.de/andrea-kohlhase/
After having been associated with the KWARC 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. Inbetween I have been "lent" to zbMATH (Zentralblatt
Mathematik, Berlin) for a design study about search interfaces for mathematicians.
I am still very fond of my previous research group [dimeb](http://www.dimeb.de)
(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](http://www.kwarc.info/projects/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](http://www.omdoc.org) 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 interactions and decouple our semantic services from specific
spreadsheet players like MS Excel.
At the end of last year I started to make use of Kelly's Repertory Grid Technique. The
example data set for the MathUI'13 paper you can find [here](http://www.kwarc.info/ako/ProcrustesAnalysis).