In many “in the wild” studies you are interested in the thoughts and feelings of participants at specific points in time (e.g., multiple times a day). Often, such studies use a (in-situ) diary approach. In this work you should explore means to motivate people to engage in this often tedious process. Although your approach should work independent of the actual data that participants have to provide, one context that we are especially interested in is the health domain: here, participants should provide data on how they feel (multiple times per day). This work is suitable for a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis.

Focus

You have to implement a prototype using web technology, and you should conduct (at least) one study to verify whether your approach works.

Prerequisites

• Read papers in respect to such diary approaches. In the recent years, some suggestions were already made at HCI-conferences (hint: start with the proceedings of the last CHI conferences).
• Experience with web development.
• Completed HCI and/or Statistics lecture and ideally already attended at least one seminar at our chair.

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 the thesis
• When you plan to finish the thesis
• A short motivational statement why this topic is interesting for you
• A summary why you be a good fit for this topic
• Your transcript of records
• A list of relevant papers that you have read and what you learned from them. Additionally, indicate how you conducted the search (max 2 A4 pages)
• A brief idea description: which motivational approach would you follow and why do you think that this is reasonable?

In this project, your main task is to conceptualize a proper systematic literature review and to carry it out.  We are interested in learning about studies that investigated adaptive gamification or behavior changes interventions and that reported on results how to tailor (e.g., “interventions for achiever user types need to offer competition as game element” or “people scoring high on extraversion, need an intervention where they can assist virtual characters”). We already did this in the past, which can inform the literature review to a certain extent.

Prerequisites

• Strong interested in searching for scientific literature and reading it.

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 the project
• When you plan to finish the project
• A short motivational statement why this project is interesting for you
• A summary why you be a good fit for this project
• Your transcript of records
• Which literature on "How to do systematic literature reviews" you have already read
• On one page, how you would do the systematic literature review for the above topic