Projektgruppen (Bachelor) + Labs/Seminars (Master)

In this project, students will research approaches to password input fields, design prototypes that improve usability and security, and conduct evaluations to assess their effectiveness. The work will combine literature review, user-centered design, and empirical testing.

This project investigates whether large language models produce different answers depending on the style, dialect, or slang used in the input prompt. Students will design controlled experiments, collect and analyze model outputs, and evaluate variations in accuracy, tone, and content.

This project examines the suitability of large language models as assistants in grading. Using human-graded work as ground truth, students will assess (1) workflow integration - how LLMs can support graders effectively - and (2) correctness --  how closely LLM assessments match human judgments.

In this seminar, you'll research algorithms, UIs, and UI paradigms that enable online collaborative systems such as Google Docs, Overleaf, git, Office 365, and others. The goal of this seminar is to create an overview of techniques and UI paradigms not only for text documents but also for all kinds of data structures.

Do Voice User Interfaces (VUI’s) replace a quick question about a topic we could have asked our colleague or neighbour? People interact a lot and rely on VUI’s nowadays. This seminar examines current advantages and challenges of voice user interfaces and what influence they might have on users’ social behavior.

Using popular LLM's like ChatGPT in universities is becoming quite common, however, the extent of its use vary by task and individual student. In a user study, you will be tasked with examining your peers' behavior when using ChatGPT or similar LLM's for university work such as theses or exercise submissions, identifying the challenges they face, and exploring the benefits it provides.

Children are exposed to digital media from a young age, often with parents unaware of the potential risks their children may face online. To investigate this issue, students will design a user study that involves interviewing parents of children aged 6 to 18. The goal of the study is to examine the participants' IT security behaviors related to user account management and how these behaviors may influence their children.

At the beginning of the year, a lab study was conducted to investigate the usability of the document authentication app Thenti, developed by Researchers from the University of Zürich. The app was then updated based on the obtained results. The task of this PG/Lab is to repeat this study in order to measure the effect of the changes in the app.