Martin Wolpers

Martin Wolpers

Dr. Martin Wolpers holds a PhD in electrical engineering and information technology from the Leibniz University Hannover. He is leading the group “Context and Attention for Personalized Learning Environments” at FIT ICON, dealing with trend and user-goal identification from contextualized attention metadata streams. Some of his stronger engagements in research projects are the project management position of the FP6 EU/IST TEL NoE PROLEARN and the coordination of the EC FP7 integrated project ROLE and the EC eContent+ MACE project. His research focuses on how to use metadata to improve technology enhanced learning scenarios. In detail, he focuses on contextualized attention metadata and knowledge representation in education. His further research interests deal with conceptual modelling, databases and information extraction.