Labs/Seminare (Master)
Our suggested topics are listed below. If you have found a topic, please send us an exposé. You can use the LaTeX template from here.
The deadline for the submission of the exposés is 21.02.25. You will receive feedback from us on whether you have been accepted for the topic by 10.03.25.
Seminar - Overview of Data Management Plans
Data management plans can help researchers maintain the confidentiality and security of the personal information of study participants. This seminar will provide an overview of existing data management plan templates.
Lab or Projektgruppe - LLMs and ethical dilemmas
Analyze how different variables, such as language model architecture or prompt design, influence how an LLM will react to ethical dilemmas.
Seminar - Mental Models in Developer-Centered Usable Security
Mental models of IT security have been explored for end users and also expert user groups, like administrators or software developers. This seminar will provide an overview over recent research in this field.
Seminar - Gamification of ethical dilemmas
The goal of this seminar is to find and evaluate different gamified approaches to observing a players reaction to ethical dilemmas (e.g. the Moral Machine).
Lab or Projektgruppe - Interview study about attitudes on client-side scanning
Replicate an interview study on attitudes on client-side scanning among professionals of diverse fields, such as law and legislation, ethics, social sciences, or law enforcement.
Lab or Projektgruppe - Microphone Arrays for Interview Recordings
Traditional stereo recorders capture everything—including unwanted noise. What if we could focus on the speaker and filter out distractions in real-time?
The goal is to test and evaluate a recording setup using a microphone array.
Lab - Data Management Plan Prototype
Managing participants' personal data securely and confidentially is crucial—but can be challenging. This project aims to develop and evaluate a prototype of a tool that assists researchers in creating and maintaining effective Data Management Plans (DMPs).
Projektgruppen (Bachelor)
Lab or Projektgruppe - Microphone Arrays for Interview Recordings
Traditional stereo recorders capture everything—including unwanted noise. What if we could focus on the speaker and filter out distractions in real-time?
The goal is to test and evaluate a recording setup using a microphone array.