HOT TOPICS! 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. Currently, we are conducting research on behaviors and opinions during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we have some other urgent projects for which we seek Master and Bachelor students:
1. Analysis of an existing data set from our Life and Work in Corona times survey
2. ‘Wearing a mask’ study
3. Experience Sampling studies on various longitudinal aspects of living in Corona times
4. Mental accounting experiment
5. A multicultural/multilanguage Google Ngram Study
THESIS TOPICS. If you are interested in conducting research with our team, this is a list of topics we would be interested in developing as part of a Bachelor or Master thesis (list updated on May 2020)
Current
Experience Sampling and mobile research
- Smartphone sensors, personality and behavior. An experimental study in measurement accuracy of behavioral and environmental sensors in mobile devices
- Experience Sampling studies: collecting and analysing data from daily life
- In search of the right moment to send a mobile notification in Experience Sampling studies
- Improving user experience with mobile notifications
- Tracking everyday life with collecting and visualizing GPS data
- Collecting GPS data in a browser
Internet-based experiments and Web survey methodology
- Interactive online experiments (where participants are playing with each other)
- Human interaction in online experiments: How to improve the user experience?
- Effects of timing strategies on data quality for web surveys
- Experimental study of basic Web experimental techniques
- Advantages and disadvantages of online response formats
- Development of an R (and Shiny) app
Measurement and scales
- Development and validation of an online personality scale (various scales possible)
- Replicación español: Propiedades psicométricas de una versión en-línea de la Escala de Deseabilidad Social
- Touchscreen versus Mouse: Response formats
- A study with migrants on the use of social media
Virtual Reality
- Online Virtual Reality (programming skills desired)
- Evaluation of a 360-video emotion induction dataset in the German population
In the near future
Experience Sampling and mobile research
- Experience Sampling in Virtual Reality (programming skills required)
Internet-based experiments and Web survey methodology
- Understanding the seriousness check and the instruction manipulation check
- Social Lab: Programming and evaluating extensions
- Interpersonal Comparisons: Dividing the cake with robots – a Web experiment
Measurement and scales
- Further research on Visual Analog Scales
- Sunk cost experiment
Virtual Reality
- Psychology in 3D – Assessment in virtual realities (programming skills required)
- Development of a Presence questionnaire in of Virtual Reality (requirement: programming skills, previous experience in Unity, or strong desire to learn)
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.