Innovative digital career opportunities - Seite 3

 

Prof. Dr. Christoph Minnameier: 

The cooperation with industry and research has been fuelled by the founding of the MD.I Hub: In the Innovation Hub attached to the university, students, professors and alumni come together to implement innovative projects in cooperation with industry partners. Since its foundation two years ago, the launch title "Spaceshop VR" for Google's VR glasses Mirage Solo, a VR slide for Therme Erding in cooperation with Bully Herbig and several gamification projects for Amazon EU were designed and implemented here. Both universities and companies benefit equally from the transfer of knowledge, and students have the opportunity to work together with potential future employers at an early stage. Within the framework of research collaborations, such as the collaboration with the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, the staff of MD.I is researching less commercially oriented content such as the development of a VR training for patients suffering from hemiplegia. 



Maren Müller-Bierbaum: 

In a world that is becoming more and more digital; what are the jobs of the future for you as experts? In addition to entertainment and marketing, there are many jobs of the future in the field of digital transformation and adaptation for specific target groups - now also fuelled by the Corona crisis. Usage and acceptance will not only be a question of engineering, but will be determined by creative ideas that bring joy, by attractive visual concepts as well as intelligent, user-oriented design and the conservation of economic and ecological resources. And of course by a high degree of networking and interface management. Playful solutions ensure that information and knowledge transfer or training is more enjoyable. Innovative development approaches simplify operating processes, visual effects bring more attractiveness and target group-oriented aesthetics by trained designers ensure better user guidance and adaptations that focus on the person or user. Intelligent adaptation to specific target groups opens up new target groups for digital applications, for supporting and participating in, for example, an ageing society in industrialised countries. The jobs of the future have already started today. Designers, concept developers, editors, programmers and specialists, for example from psychology, learning, behavioral and market research, business administration, architecture, logistics, medicine, need an eye for innovative visions that create benefits. They should be trained and willing to work in interdisciplinary teams to develop solutions that they can repeatedly optimize for the user and the benefit. On the other hand, the focus on users also requires people who advise, manage, train and support. The jobs of the future will therefore be determined by the innovative power and creativity of people - this necessarily includes specific and interface-oriented know-how in the (digital) development process. Many jobs will also be influenced by the environment and by available resources - this is where man as a creative person, as a researcher and also as an empathic person with foresight and prudence will be challenged to find solutions that are both resource- saving and economically effective. And it is also in the environment of human-to-human relations that jobs of the future will be found in order to master the challenges of modern societies: Care, nursing, consulting and training. Moreover, a majority of the jobs of the future will require cooperation in international teams. This development, too, has already begun in recent times. By focusing on the numerous team projects in the course of studies, the interdisciplinary structure of teaching and the continuous adaptation of course contents to industrial requirements, the courses at MD.H provide a special training for the future of its students and graduates.