Michael Barz
Doctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Mobile Eye TrackingEye TrackingGaze-based InteractionMulti-modal InteractionUser ModelingInteractive Machine LearningOpen Thesis Topics
In this work, your task is to implement a game with a purpose, but also helps in collecting hand-drawn sketches with annotations for machine learning. Your task will be to design and implement a suitable game, and to evaluate it in a user study. This game should integrate game mechanics that fit the purpose of generating/annotating sketches via touch input, stylus, or digital pens. You can also target on integrating interactive machine learning techniques (e.g., they can interactively train a machine learning model which they can use during the game and has an effect on the game).
Focus
The design and implementation of the game mechanics. You should have solid programming skills and, at best, experience with Unity 3D or another game development engine of choice. A user study will be conducted in the context of the game.
How to apply
Please send me an email with the following pieces of information (if you do not answer every point, your application will not be considered):
- When you plan to start/finish the thesis (approximately)
- A short motivational statement why this topic is interesting for you (max. 0.5 pages)
- Preliminary concept draft for a game (circa 1 page)
- Your transcript of records
Teaching
- Intelligent User Interfaces. Assistant to Dr. Daniel Sonntag at TU Kaiserslautern [winter term 2015/16]
- Artificial Intelligence. Assistant to Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster at Saarland University [summer term 2018]
Projects
- GeAR
- SciBot
- ERICS
- CPS for Smart Factories
Professional Activities
Conference Reviewing
- IJCAI (Papers): 2016, 2019
- ACM IUI (Papers): 2019
- KI (Papers): 2019
- ACM ETRA (PETMEI Workshop Papers): 2018
- IEEE VR (Papers): 2018, 2020
- HRI (LBR): 2017
Journals Reviewing
- Journal of Eye Movement Research (JEMR), 2018