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Chat-bots as the (chat) window to your Smart-Home environment - vergeben |
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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: Extending the service design - vergeben |
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This thesis is about interaction design and prototypical implementation of a chat-bot which supports a healthy lifestyle by incorporating different types of functionality into a holistic service composition. A prototype exists already, and your core job is to further extend the existing service composition by incorporating further APIs and related functionalities. Currently supported are APIs of Google Calendar (supporting scheduling physical activity and healthy eating), Fitbit, as well as APIs of recipe and work-out platforms. What else could be helpful? Be creative! |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
Social Computing meets the Smart Environment: COSY Healthy-Living Bot:Chat-bot supported finding ofSupporting users with pursuing meaningful fitness goals - open |
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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 personality and interaction design to incorporate S.M.A.R.T. goal setting (1) incorporate motivational design, e.g. by means of gamification, 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. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
Social Computing meets the Smart Environment: COSY Healthy-Living Bot: |
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Usability Evaluation - open |
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usability evaluation of a chat-bot which supports a healthy lifestyle. |
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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 prototypesconduct a usability study on an existing prototype. This will include group discussions with users and a questinaire-based evaluation of usage practice. Note: This topic is only available as P1/P2 |
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| 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 - open |
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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? - open |
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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. Note: This topic is only available as P1/P2 or Master's Thesis. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
Social Software for Computer-Supported Community-Building - open |
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This topic is about computer-supported community building. Social networks emanate from purposeful social mingling and interaction and can bring about significant positive social change, a process that can be specifically supported and nurtured, e.g. as described by Plastrik and Taylor (1). While the authors have created their framework before there were social networks like Facebook on the Internet, it seems clear that today's technology can add a lot to this effort. This thesis is about (1) creating a social software concept that supports the building of ad-hoc social communities, following Plastrik and Taylors approach, and investigating how the specific network goals defined by them can be supported by ICT, (2) prototyping this concept and (3) conducting a small user trial to test for conceptual feasibility. (1) https://networkimpact.org/downloads/NetGainsHandbookVersion1.pdf Note: This topic is only available as P1/P2 or Master's Thesis. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
A youth perspective on social networks - co-designing a social network with children - open |
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While social networks are very popular among younger people, none of them have been designed from their perspective, putting them first. This topic is about designing a social network from the perspective of youth/young persons. The thesis comprises (1) the participatory design of a social network concept that is based in the interests, wishes and needs of young persons, (2) the prototypical realization of this concept, (3) conducting a small user trial to validate the prototype. Note: This topic is only available as P1/P2 or Master's Thesis. |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) |
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