Curriculum vitae

Kaj Grønbæk

Personal Information

Born July 19, 1960.

Private Address:   
Gertrud Rasks vej 7
DK - 8200 Århus N
Phone: +45 86 16 43 91

Business address: 
Department of Computer Science
University of Aarhus
Åbogade 34
DK- 8200  Århus N
Phone: +45 8942 5600
Phone direct: +45 8942 5636
Fax: +45 8942 5601
E-mail: kgronbak@daimi.au.dk
WWW: http://www.daimi.au.dk/~kgronbak

Nationality: Danish.

Civil Status: Married to Iben Krarup Grønbæk; two sons Jens Emil (1990) and Asbjørn (1994).

Education and Academic degrees

Primary school, 1967-76, Fjelstervang and Kibæk, Denmark. High School examination (Studentereksamen), Mathematics-Physics specialization, from Herning Gymnasium, Denmark,1979.

Cand. scient. in Computer Science with Mathematics as minor subject, Aarhus University, Denmark,1988.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1991.

Positions held

Research areas

Development and use of hypermedia, Web, and multimedia technology; ubiquitous hypremedia, interactive spaces, augmented reality, interaction design, tools and techniques for system development with active user involvement (participatory/cooperative design); Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW); rapid prototyping; object oriented tools and techniques.

Teaching and supervision experience

Teaching assistant in courses on programming, machine architecture and system development during 1983 - 1987. Since 1988 teaching computer science and system development mainly at graduate level at Aarhus University. Supervisor for several Master’s Thesis and Ph.D. students.

One of the founders of the interdisciplinary multimedia teachring programme at Aarhus University. Several years experience in teaching interdisciplinary multimedia courses in the programme as well as on similar programme at the IT-University Vest.

Several years experience in running multimedia education in an Open University setting with participants distributed nation wide in Denmark.

Several years experience in running a hypermedia class as distributed education on the first Danish IP-based audio/video connection which was established between the Danish Technical University and University of Aarhus in 1998 via the Danish Research Network.

Have supervised more than 30 Masters Thesis students and more than 10 PhD students.

Project management and project participation

Center Manager for Center for Interactive Spaces under ISIS Katrinebjerg (2002-2006).

Research Manager of the CIT project #333, CONTEXTIT, in collaboration with Tele Danmark/InnovationLab and EUMAN A/S. 1 year (2003).

Manager of the National Research council project Distributed Multimedia Technologies and Applications (DMM) with a budget of Dkr. 22 mill over 4 years under the Danish Center for Multimedia.

Research Manager of the CIT project #123, COCONUT, in collaboration with Tele Danmark Internet. The total budget was Dkr. 10 mill. over 3 years (1997-1999).

Project manager/coordinator for the Open Hypermedia project under the Danish Electronic Research Library (DEF). Feb. 2000 – Jan 2001. The project was a joint development project undertaken by the Alexandra Institute ltd. and Mjølner Informatics ltd, the project delivered a version of Webvise tailored for use of Digital Libraries in research and education.

Manager of a NORFA research network for research education in Interactive Media (2000-2004) – total budget 1.500.000 NKR.

Manager of the InterMedia-Århus laboratory, part of the national Danish multimedia research initiative.

Manager of the Interactive Workspaces laboratory (http://www.daimi.au.dk/ispace), part of the CIT Center for Pervasive Computing (http://www.pervasive.dk).

Participation in other large projects (as workpackage/task manager): The research programme on Computer Support for Cooperative Design and Communication. Supported by an FTU grant from the Danish Natural Science Research Council and by the Danish Humanities Research Council. (1987-1989). The DEVISE project developing support for Experimental System Development, sup­port­ed by Danish Research Programme for Informatics, grant no. 5.26.18.19. (1990-1994). The EU Esprit projects: EuroCoOp (1990-1992); and EuroCODE (1992-1995). EU IST, Disappearing Computer, project WorkSPACE (2001-2003).

Secretary and editor for a board formed by the Danish Ministry of Research in 1996 with the objective to investigate the prospects of establishing a Multimedia Research Centre in Denmark. The report is available at the Ministry’s server http://www.fsk.dk/.

Participation in organizing consortia for EU Proposals: EASTLINK: East European Contributions to Development of Object Oriented Hypermedia Application Frameworks. Plug-in Publishing: Open publishing services for integrated, local information repositories. OCTOPUS: On-line Commercial Technical Open PUblishing Service.

Grants

Editorial Boards, Committees, etc.

Editorial boards for: The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. London : Taylor & Francis. The Journal of Collaborative Computing. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Programme committee co-chair for Hypertext 1998 - The ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia.

General chair of the twelfth ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia - Hypertext '01 - (http://www.ht01.org) to be held in Århus, Denmark, August 14-18, 2001.

Member of various committees for: The Conference on Participatory Design (PDC); the Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research; the ACM Conferences on Hypertext; the European CSCW conference (ECSCW); the Third Decennial Aarhus Conference, Computers In Context: Joining Forces In Design (1995).

Member of the Board for Hypergenic Ltd. (http://www.hypergenic.com).

Member of the Board for AugmentedMedia Aps. (www.augmentedmedia.net).

Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for Interdisciplinary multimedia educations at University of Aarhus, since 1997.

Chair of the board of Skovvangskolen.

Awards

Winner of the Engelbart best paper award at Hypertext 97. The second Engelbart Award, in honour of the contributions made to the hypertext field by Doug Engelbart.

Awarded the "red dot: best of the best" for design concepts 2007 within the area of "education" for the Wisdom Well interactive floor for learning.

Winner of the Best Art Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2008.

Talks and lectures

Many lectures about Cooperative Prototyping, CSCW, and Hypermedia both at national and international institutions. Including institutions such as: University of Aalborg, Denmark; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; University of Oslo, Norway; Xerox PARC, California, USA; Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Invited talks for: The Open Hypermedia Systems Workshop at the ACM European Conference on Hypermedia Technology (ECHT '94) Edinburg, UK, September 18 -23, 1994. The Social Context of Hypermedia Workshop. Held in Umeå, Sweden, February 16 -17, 1995. The Open Hypermedia Systems Workshop at the HYPERTEXT '96 – Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Washington DC, USA, March 16-20, 1996. On Pervasive Computing for the SIGCHI.dk association at the IT-University, Copenhagen, March 2000.

Many talks about Prototyping, Active User Involvement, CSCW, Hypermedia, Interactive Spaces, and Pervasive Computing in Danish companies and professional associations.

Professional memberships

Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Special interest groups: SIGCHI - Special interest group on human-computer interaction. SIGWEB - Special interest group on hypertext and hypermedia.

Skills

Fully fluent in Danish and English; reads German and bits of Russian. Many years experience in object oriented programming and modern development environments. Experience in use of various user interface construction tools and application frameworks; various relational and object oriented database systems; various Web based tools at both client and server level.

Publications

Publications include 1 book in English (386 pages, MIT Press), 4 edited volumes, 20+ journal papers, 45+ peer-reviewed conference papers, 10+ book chapters and number of workshop papers and demos etc.. For a complete list, see the publications entry.