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Social Software meets the Internet of Things (IoT): Sensors and/or displays for a Smart Grätzel community platform |
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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. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
Chat-bots as Adaptive Interfaces: Personalizing interaction? |
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This topic is about personalized services. With interfaces getting more and more "smart", possibilities for adaptive functionality and adaptive interaction concepts widen, taking into account the users' preferences, current state or overall personality. This points to the question: Can adapting to situative states and/or personal attributes of a user improve the user experience, usability and overall "successful" usage of a software? This thesis comprises (1) the identification of a suitable setting for a comparative study (e.g. see Grätzelbot topics, Healthy-Living-Bot topics, or your own topic), (2) the enhancement of the respective user-interface to support adaptive behavior/interaction design, (3) the realization of a comparative usability/user experience study. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
b. Topics with a Network-related Focus
Context-aware Access-Control for Smart-Home |
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"Authorize your actions in Smart Home not only using your identity but also your previous behavior and current system's environment" Bring ABAC and Blockchain together! While ABAC stores information about users' identity and provides fine-granular access-control, blockchain can be used to as a trusted storage for event-based tracking of the system's usage. Use case - a child can't turn on the light in the living room in the night without the presence of the parent in the same room. In this thesis an existing implementation of the ABAC for Smart-Home based on XACML will be extended and adapted to make use of blockchain and verifying access-rights based on two source of information - users' credentials and latest information in the blockchain, depending on the definition of the access policy. |
| If you're interested, please contact Nemanja Ignjatov (nemanja.ignjatov@univie.ac.at) |
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