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Smart Subtitles App: Opera.Guru |
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Opera.Guru is an application suite to provide subtitles for live opera performances. (see www.opera.guru for details) The existing application contains a smartphone app (Android/iOS) and a web-based CMS. The task of this thesis is to develop a new web app in addition to the existing smartphone app. The goal of this extension is to use the Opera.Guru application suite for events other than opera and to access new user groups as well as new application scenarios. Basic programming skills and knowledge with mobile, web and server applications (Xamarin for Android/iOS apps, IIS) are recommended. The work for this thesis will include a user study to evaluate the web app. See the project's website for further information and finished theses about opera.guru. |
| If you're interested, please contact Oliver Hödl (oliver.hoedl@univie.ac.at) and Peter Reichl (peter.reichl@univie.ac.at) and describe why you are interested in the project and your prior experience. |
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Virtual classrooms in Physics Education |
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Virtual learning environments using cutting-edge technologies such as augmented and virtual reality promise to be the future of remote and online learning. This master thesis casts a critical look at both the technical and pedagogical feasibility of such solutions. An innovative approach to virtual classrooms in physics education is designed in a process with stakeholders (teachers, learners, policy makers), prototypically implemented and evaluated to outline guidelines for future learning technology in this space. Experience in developing AR or VR applications is needed. |
| If you're interested, please contact Oliver Hödl (oliver.hoedl@univie.ac.at) and Fares Kayali (fares.kayali@univie.ac.at) and describe why you are interested in the project and your prior experience. |
Digital Tools to further Critical Thinking and Democratic Empowerment among Youth (nicht mehr verfügbar) |
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Recently, the openness of the Internet has been blamed for the rise of populist, anti-democratic tendencies. It is hard to deny that, as an open medium equally accessible to all, the Internet enables all kinds of hate speech, fake news, conspiracy theories and manipulative writing. Most famously, the filter bubble phenomenon is said to have had massive impact on recent democratic decisions like BREXIT and the US presidential election. The main question this thesis (and for society and science) is: How can we use a free and open Internet to counteract these tendencies? How can the Internet be used to promote more self-reflective, critical engagement and support democracy, transparency and equal rights for everybody, instead of hampering and restricting these ideas? This thesis’ goal is to explore digital tools and strategies that use the unique structure of the Internet to further youths’ critical reflection and thus advance openness and promote democracy in order to counter narrow-minded, authoritarian and segregative tendencies in society. |
| If you're interested, please contact Oliver Hödl (oliver.hoedl@univie.ac.at) and Fares Kayali (fares.kayali@univie.ac.at) and describe why you are interested in the project and your prior experience. |
Digital Game-based Learning and Long-term Engagement (nicht mehr verfügbar) |
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Over the last years game-based learning and gamified learning environments have become respected means of teaching, in particular in project- and challenge-based teaching and learning. At the same time it is doubtful how such digital learning experiences can be inclusive for different target audiences (e.g. by addressing all genders) how they can sustain engagement with the learning contents, and what the points are where people disengage from learning with game-based technologies. This master thesis looks at these questions by implementing and evaluating a game-based learning intervention, which addresses these problems. App development and/or game development skills are needed for this thesis. |
| If you're interested, please contact Oliver Hödl (oliver.hoedl@univie.ac.at) and Fares Kayali (fares.kayali@univie.ac.at) and describe why you are interested in the project and your prior experience. |
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