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Most of our research has been Internet-based since the 1990s, so we can bring a lot of experience and provide a lot of advice on how to do your thesis research online.

CURRENT THESIS TOPIC IDEAS

1. Usability study of mobile applications and mobile web (Statistik Picker and rextor)
2. A meta analysis (Master thesis)
3. Experience Sampling studies on various longitudinal aspects
4. Experimental study of basic Web experimental techniques
5. A multicultural/multilanguage Google Ngram Study
6. (Re-)programming serious games
7. A ChatGPT or other AI study

MORE THESIS TOPICS

You want to work in this field and you have your own idea? Great! Contact someone from the group or write to sek.reips@uni-konstanz.de to schedule a meeting to get to know each other and make a project plan. If you don’t have a concrete idea of your own, here is a large list of topics we would be interested in developing as part of a Bachelor or Master thesis. No matter where you are, you can take your iScience thesis  with you.

Experience Sampling and mobile research

1. Smartphone sensors, personality and behavior. An experimental study in measurement accuracy of behavioral and environmental sensors in mobile devices
2. Experience Sampling studies: collecting and analysing data from daily life
3. In search of the right moment to send a mobile notification in Experience Sampling studies
4. Improving user experience with mobile notifications
5. Tracking everyday life with collecting and visualizing GPS data
6. Comparability of whole-scale personality tests vs. scale-wise (over the course of one week)
7. Experience Sampling in Virtual Reality (programming skills required)

For more information on the experience sampling method, see our publication in Behavior Research Methods.

Internet-based experiments and Web survey methodology

1. Understanding the seriousness check and the instruction manipulation check
2. Social Lab: Programming and evaluating extensions
3. Interactive online experiments (where participants are playing with each other)
4. Human interaction in online experiments: How to improve the user experience?
5. Advantages and disadvantages of online response formats
6. Development of an R (and Shiny) app

Measurement and scales

1. Creating a Reactance Questionnaire (with personality measures)
2. Further research on Visual Analog Scales
3. Sunk cost experiment
4. Personality in Serious Gaming
5. Development and validation of an online personality scale (various scales possible)
6. Replicación español: Propiedades psicométricas de una versión en-línea de la Escala de Deseabilidad Social
7. Touchscreen versus Mouse: Response formats
8. A study with migrants on the use of social media
9. Online Virtual Reality (programming skills desired)

For any further information on the topics and/or if you are interested in doing your thesis with us, please contact any team member or send an e-mail to sek.reips@uni-konstanz.de.