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Chat-bots as the (chat) window to your Smart-Home environment

This topic aims at utilizing a chatbot-type agent to interact with users of a Smart-Home environment. A conversation-based interaction/service design is to be designed to support Smart-Home-related tasks, such as (1) adding and removing IoT-devices to the Smart Home, (2) effective management of access and security policies (ABAC), (3) everyday usage.

Your task is to create a chat-bot interaction/service design with regard to usability-related qualities (simplicity, usable and understandable security features) and meaningful features, and make use of the existing Smart-Home setting of COSY:Lab to develop a chat-bot prototype for this context. A small user trial should then collect feedback and test for conceptual feasibility and usability.

If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) and Nemanja Ignjatov (nemanja.ignjatov@univie.ac.at)
Social Computing meets the Smart Environment: COSY Healthy-Living Bot: Chat-bot supported finding of meaningful fitness goals

This thesis is about interaction design and prototypical implementation (NodeJS) of a Facebook Messenger Bot which facilitates healthy living. Your jobs comprise (1) the integration of different services (e.g. Fitbit API, Google API, some recipe API, .. - be creative!) as a service composition and (2) the creation of a "Bot persona" which incorporates the resulting functionality. A small user trial should then collect feedback and test for conceptual feasibility. chat-bot which supports a healthy lifestyle. A prototype exists already, and your core job is to further develop the chat-bot personality and interaction design to incorporate S.M.A.R.T. goal setting (1) in order to support the user with finding meaningful fitness goals. To achieve this, you can make full use of the existing prototype feature-set (already integrated APIs: Google Calendar, Fitbit, Recipe API, Work-Out API) and extend it if necessary.

(1) https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm

If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at)
Social Computing meets the Smart Environment: COSY
Grätzel
Healthy-Living Bot: Interaction by Artificial Intelligence

This thesis is about interaction design and prototypical implementation of a chat-bot which supports a healthy lifestyle. A prototype exists already, and your core job is to further develop the chat-bot AI module in order to support a more natural, conversational interaction. To achieve this, you can make full use of the existing prototype feature-set (already integrated APIs: Google Calendar, Fitbit, Recipe API, Work-Out API) and extend it if necessary.

If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at)
Social Computing meets the Smart Environment: COSY Grätzel-Bot: Gamified support for 1st-semester students

This thesis is about interaction design and further development of an existing Facebook Messenger Bot which supports newcoming students at the faculty of computer science. Your jobs comprise (1) the integration of location-oriented information and services as well as (2) functionality that supports socialization and collaboration, e.g. support for ad-hoc meetings, learning groups, ..

For this, small proof-of-concept-like prototypes already exist. Your core job is to incorporate the existing ideas into a single chat-bot/web platform in order to create a tool that can then be tested in the upcoming winter semester (which is, in the case of Bachelor students of SS18, of course out of scope of your thesis, just to mention the overall goal).

If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at)
Social Software meets the Internet of Things (IoT): Sensors and/or displays for a Smart Grätzel community platform

This thesis is about interaction design and prototyping of a community platform ("Smart Grätzel") that incorporates IoT devices. This thesis comprises (1) defining a social software concept that supports a given community by incorporating software (e.g. a web-platform, a chat-bot) and IoT devices (e.g sensors or displays), (2) creating a prototype, (3) conducting a small user trial to explore/validate meaning from a user perspective further development of an existing Facebook Messenger Bot which supports newcoming students at the faculty of computer science. Your jobs comprise (1) the integration of location-oriented information and services as well as (2) functionality that supports socialization and collaboration, e.g. support for ad-hoc meetings, learning groups, .. A small user trial should then collect feedback and test for conceptual feasibility.

If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at)

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