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Usability, User Diversity und Technikakzeptanz - Seminar

In this course students learn how to apply the methods of empirical research in a self-directed research project. The focus is to integrate user-diversity aspects with usability and technology acceptance in differing topcis. Students may pick their own research question, decide on methods and collect their own data. In several project “pitches” students discuss the topics and their current state of work. Students have to deliver a final presentation and three pitches.

Agent-Based Modeling - Seminar

Summer 2018 In this seminar students were introduced to the programming environment NetLogo. Netlogo provides the means for simple agent-based models as well as a complex simulation environment. The task of students was to model the spread of information in different scenarios using agent-based models. As the term paper students have to hand in a model and a analysis using the behavior space tool in netlogo. Video-Lectures for the seminar All videos can be seen in a youtube playlist.

Bachelor and Master Colloquia - Seminar

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Information Visualization using Processing - Seminar

In this seminar students were introduced to the programming environment Processing. Students should develop their own information visualization using processing that utilized an open-data API. The whole process was design around the design study methodology. As a requirement students had to submit an application and a term paper describing the applications and an evaluation. Video-Lectures for the seminar All videos can be seen in a youtube playlist. Installing processing How to learn processing Pixels and rectangles Comments and first examples Shape Primitives Exercise drawing faces Text and Bar-Charts Variables Variables (simplified) Setup and draw Writing functions Mouse interaction A drawing app Window resizing Arrays For loops If statements Tabular data 1 Tabluar data 2 Object orientation Object orientation 2 Random Dynamic data Flummis Error-Messages