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titleTopic Info Meeting

If you plan on doing your Bachelor's or Master's thesis/P1/P2 with COSY , 

Please attend the topic discussion session for WiSe 2024/2025:

When:

Thursday 16:30

TBD
Where:

 Seminarraum 10, Währingerstrasse 29, 1090 Wien (updated 09:30, sorry for the late notice)

TBD

Please prepare yourself for this session:

  • Read the topic descriptions and pick at least 2 topics that spark your interest

  • Write down your associations and assumptions about the topics (e.g. your interests, research questions and methods that come to mind). Ideally, take a first look at the available literature.

     → The better your preparation, the greater the likelihood that we can optimally supervise you (smile)


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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Computer Networks and Network SecurityAlternative Social Media

  • Human Factors and Interaction Design of ICTs
  • Usability, Usable Security, User Research, (Participatory) ideation and iterative prototyping
  • Social Computing, Technology and the cultural domain - “Culture over IP”
  • Ubiquitous and mobile HCI
  • Computer Supported Cooperative World - Social Computing/Social Informatics, Cooperative Systems
  • Computer Networks --- design, operation, and use
  • Internet of Things, Internet of People
  • Decentralization
  • NEW: Federated Online Social Networks (Fediverse and Mastodon)


If you are interested in "Praktika" or Bachelor/Master-Theses in the Area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), please contact:

Oliver Hödl (oliver.hoedl@univie.ac.at)

Florian Güldenpfennig (florian.gueldenpfennig@univie.ac.at)

If you are interested in "Praktika" or Bachelor/Master-Theses in the Area of Networks and Network Security, please contact:

Albert Rafetseder (albert.rafetseder(at)univie.ac.at) or

Paul Fuxjäger (paul.fuxjaeger(at)univie.ac.at).

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iLO Hacking - available

Server hardware includes management interfaces to remote-control the hardware and BIOS of a server even if the main operating system or hypervisor becomes inaccessible through usual means such as ssh. For this, a fully separate embedded system is built into the server. It provides its own firmware and operating system, RAM, storage, a separate physical Ethernet port, and low-level access to the running server hardware (e.g. fan and power supply status) and software (e.g. main memory of the server).

Little is known about the actual software comprising these management interfaces, although (mostly-informal) investigations have been conducted, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Feel free to research other projects, useful search terms include iLO, IPMI, iDRAC, LOM, OOB, BMC...

In this project, you aim to expand and formalize this knowledge by trying out existing and developing new methods of analyzing and modifying firmware of management interfaces. A distant goal could be a fully free and open-source operating system, e.g. based on OpenWrt, for a management controller. We have multiple HP servers from different generations at our disposal for hardware analysis and hacking.

If you're interested, please contact Albert Rafetseder (albert.rafetseder@univie.ac.at)


A Configurable Études Generator -
available
assigned
Études are musical pieces designed as practice materials for perfecting particular musical skills (Wikipedia). The skills to be perfected can differ (in difficulty and category) from étude to étude, and are different between instruments, players, and also dimensions of musical content (melody, harmony, rhythm). Develop a sufficiently generic, configurable generator for études that outputs études of choosable difficulty. For this, define a system that encodes the difficulty of a task to be studied, and transformations that assess the difficulty of combinations of study tasks appropriately.
If you're interested, please contact Albert Rafetseder (albert.rafetseder@univie.ac.at)

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