Basis dieser Bachelorarbeit für 1 Person ist der Artikel The hardest working font in Manhattan. Der Artikel beschreibt, einen Font, bestenfalls unter dem Namen »Gorton« bekannt, der durch die Produktion eines Gravurgerätes ca. 1897 massenhafte Verbreitung zumindest an der US-amerikanischen Ostküste gefunden hat.
Um dem charakteristischen Schriftbild neues Leben einzuhauchen, soll eine Web-Applikation entwickelt werden, mit der aus eingegebenem Text 3D-Modelle gravierter Platten in hoher Auflösung entstehen können. Dabei sollen unterschiedliche Templates zur Auswahl stehen. Im Idealfall findet die gesamte Verarbeitung in JavaScript im Browser statt, sodass das HTML auf einfachen Webservern gehostet werden kann.
In Denkweisen der Informatik (ways of thinking in informatics), a unique first-semester course for all informatics bachelor students at TU Wien, we organized (more or less) weekly panel discussions where experts of the respective fields answer and discuss the students’ questions. To collect the questions, we use the Q&A-Tool of the zoom webinar format.
While this is readily available, it has some serious drawbacks, eg. questions can only be submitted once the webinar has started, while it would be helpful if students could post questions whenever they have them.
The goal of this master thesis project is to design and implement a little platform (probably using django) that mirrors the possibilities of the Zoom Q&A-tool and extends them in the direction we need it. There are some role models, like mentimeter, mukana or the old best and worst of informatics tool we used when Aurora was still around, but basically this should be designed from ground up along the necessities of its intended use.
A format to translate lecture slides into a semi-booklike format has been developed and refined over the recent years. An example can be seen here:
https://dwi.lva.tuwien.ac.at/dwi20221117.html
Slidebooks are created using a convoluted pipeline of processing steps, from the creation of slides in Apple Keynote, the annotation of these slides using the »presenter notes« functionality in Keynote, the extraction of all content from Keynote using AppleScript, ImageMagick and curl and the encoding into a text-only format, to a python script that creates an HTML + javascript-file that can then be uploaded to a web server.
This pipeline is not only relatively slow, unreliable and error-prone, it is also a nightmare to maintain and update. The goal of this master thesis for one person is to take everything that has been learned so far, completely rethink the process and create a »service« that makes it easy to create slideBooks.
In addition, new elements for SlideBooks that enhance the interactivity (like quizzes, crosslinks between slidebooks, gameful elements) should be devised, designed and prototyped or implemented.
ChatGPT has created a conundrum for teachers everywhere. Simple »text production« tasks are endangered by the glorious »stochastic parroting« qualities of chatGPT, and asking students/pupils to summarize something will soon be a completely useless assignment.
So discussions, how this can be avoided/mitigated/used productively have sprung up everywhere. Some US school districts are banning chatGPT, detection tools are being developed, and others try to find productive uses of the system in classes - and this is just a short overview over some reactions. As chatGPT can also produce quite competent code, these problems affect not only text-centered assignments, but also introductory coding or engineering classes.
In this bachelor thesis (in german or english language) for one or two students, the goal is to gain an overview over the current discussion, and develop mitigation strategies for first-semester university courses with 500+ students (like we have at TU Wien), especially in informatics-programs
smart phones are amazing collections of sensor technologies. can these sensors, especially location, orientation and maybe the camera be used to facilitate new forms of teaching and learning in the course »ways of thinking in informatics« (denkweisen der informatik).
the goal of this bachelor or master thesis is to find a simple and easy to adapt strategie that can be used to create »distribued« learning units. this includes looking at existing approaches like educaching, QR rallys or hybrid scavenger hunts,, designing and implementing elements of an approach that is easy to maintain and fill with content, and evaluate those elements with students in the context of a large first-year informatics course.
cory doctorow is an science fiction/tech fiction author creating books in amazing frequency. some of his books are set in a near future where the technologies seem absolutely realistic or at least almost possible. this diploma thesis will explores how realistic those the technologies really are? using some of his works as a starting point (esp. the trilogy little brother, homeland and attack surface as well as walkaway and the novella-collection radicalized) the work should examine how much of the technology described in a »near future« settings are attainable or available today. if they don’t exist, could they be implemented/created? should they exist? the work should pose and answer technological, ethical and political questions regarding the concepts of his books. ideally, a particularily interesting technology is implemented in a prototypical way.
zitate werden in videos gerne mit einer anderen stimme vorgetragen, also nicht von der bzw. vom vortragenden, sondern von einer passenden anderen stimme. zwei beispiele dafür finden sich in einem video von jan böhmermanns ZDF magazin royale vom 27.5.2002:
leider gibt es keine software (konkret für macOS), mit der man das visuell anspruchsvoll, aber auch einigermaßen einfach automatisiert als video produzieren kann. dabei sind die requirements hier wirklich klar definiert.
im rahmen einer bachelorarbeit für eine oder zwei personen soll eine software auf macOS implementiert werden, mit der das einfach möglich gemacht werden soll. neben der einfachen bedienung und dem export als video steht dabei die qualität des gesprochenen texts im vordergrund. dafür sollen existierende services mit hervorragender qualität (zb. von amazon oder google) genutzt werden. entsprechend ist eine evaluierung dieser services (qualität, kosten, verfügbarkeit) teil der bachelorarbeit.
ein wesentliches element der software ist weiters, dass man das erscheinungsbild des textes detailliert definieren kann, um den visuellen anforderungen der videoproduktion gerecht werden zu können. über eine mögliche kommerzielle verwertung kann gerne auch nachgedacht werden.
scientific publications can often be placed in time (i.e. their publication date) from reading the title. The theory of relativity was obviously published at the start of the 20th century; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was published long before the scientific revolution; and Computing Machinery and Intelligence (»machinery«?) came out at a time when computers more often than not were still people, not things.
the goal of this bachelor project for one person is to implement a little (smart phone or web based) game where people guess the year in which famous texts were written – maybe taken from sources like this or this – and be assigned a score for how close they got. weekly challenges – this week: number theory – could be announced automatically, resulting in a new score table every week.
since the beginning of the scientific revolution, the publication of information – insights, knowledge, theories, etc. – was one of the main driving forces of science. it can be argued that the scientific revolution was fuelled by a rebellion of newton’s contemporaries against secrecy and private profiteering as much as a different way of thinking.
for centuries, the format of the printed scientific article has been refined into a number of different standardised layouts (dependent eg. on the branch of science, or the publishing medium) and conventions (eg. for citations, or for the order of authors. then, the internet came along and, over night, made that all obsolete — only that it didn’t. scientific publishing is still defined by the format of the printed paper, creating a number of problems in the digital.
it is time to rethink scientific publishing formats.
in a digital-first publication format, references could not only refer to other work, they could refer to the very sentences and words of a quoted article; the multitude of reading devices, from smart phones to 4k screens and beyond, deserve optimised presentations of text and images depending on the strengths of each screen; printed versions could flow into the various standard paper sizes; and since scientific work often gets refined, revised, and discussed, we could even think about ways to reflect this in a new format.
the goal of this diploma thesis (and beyond?) is to define a new standard digital-first scientific publication format, based on the affordances and strength of digital media on one hand, and on the needs and ideas of scientific writers. previous attempts to do this should be documented. also, a renderer for LaTeX (or similar) should be implemented that translates written work into this new format.
»teaspoon languages« are a new concept to embed computational thinking into various of school subjects. a teaspoon language is a very constrained programming language (in the broadest sense) that can be learned within 10 or 15 minutes. it facilitates experimentation in a topic in a specific domain. by using a teaspoon languages, students (or pupils) can learn something interesting about the domain by applying aspects of computational thinking such as iterative improvement.
the task in this master thesis is to explore the topic of teaspoon languages together with school teachers and/or pedagogy students. possible goals for this thesis include a framework for future work in this area, successful experiments (design, prototyp, evaluation) with teaspoon languages, or the design of a teaspoon language authoring environment.
In this bachelor thesis for a group of students, a collection of software induced disasters should be documented in a structured and systematic way. We (Alex Egyed/JKU Linz, Peter Purgathofer/TU Wien) have a list of anecdotes and stories we collected during our professional life. Those anecdotes should be collected, expanded and corrected – they are anecdotes after all – through literature research, interviews etc. and organised as a publicly available database of some kind.
AnachB.vor.at is a great ressource to plan a trip through the city of vienna. unfortunately, it is lacking in some aspects for people with special needs. for example, someone with an anxiety disorder might need a list of toilets available along the way, as toilets are a welcoming place to retreat in case you need a short break. blind people might need a catalog of audible »landmarks« to find their way; elderly might need an app that tell them the way without the need to interact with an overly complcated app.. ideally, such an app should be able to describe the way from A to B for all groups, for people with all kinds of typical or special needs.
this bachelor- or masterthesis should take the first steps in the creation of such an app. this starts with the collection of the needs of all kinds of people - i will provide the necessary contacts; the exploration of possible designs; the creation of prototypes (paper, wireframe, vertical, etc.) on various levels; the identification of the proper technology (web? mobile app? tablet app? public screen?); the implementation of a first prototype – how far this project gets will depend on the type of work (bachelor, master) and number of people are involved.
the goal of this master thesis is to design and implement an iPad app that reanimates – and rethinks – the tradition of »marginalia« for digital documents (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia ). this app would allow someone with an iPad to annotate documents, most likels PDF documents, outside of the document margin, not only in the existing, often too-small margins, but beyond those margins, as this is the space that digital representation of the document opens up. additionally, the app should offer ways to create meaningful annotations beyond just using the pen, eg. the standard grammar-correction symbols, manicules, or other forms of traditional or new symbolic annotations. the master thesis would include some research on the tradition of marginalia, concept creation, design and implementation of an iPad app. interest in design, typography and calligraphy is of advantage, experience with iOS coding would be great.
we will sooner or later be able to go back to restaurants & cafes. after a year of distancing, some have a heightened need for social contact & real-world conversation. this bachelor or master thesis would encompass exploring the space of technologically-mediated or -enabled random lunch meetings at cafes and restaurants (especially) in vienna. possible components of such a system are mobile services or a mobile app, an interface for restaurant owners to announce their participation, and some form of communication to complement it.
the goal of this master thesis project for one or two students is to create an AR app that replaces all branding in (predominantly) orban space with other content. one replacement could be the color yellow, in the spirit of the art project »Delete!«; another replacement could be the name of the company that owns that brand, eg. replacing Billa, Merkur, Penny, and ITS Reisen with ReWe Group. More ideas are welcome. The project comprises of the design and implementation of a mobile phone app for iOS (optionally also Android), the market research brand signs to replace, and the dissemination of the app as an art project.
the goal of this bachelor or diploma thesis project is to conceptualize, design and implement an app that lets groups of people decide on simple decisions like which movie to watch, which food to order, which book to read etc. a prototypical implementation will be evaluated to see whether this approach is viable.
the goal of this master thesis is to get answers from national and international researchers and practitioners in digital teachning & learning (online learning, blended learning, etc.) about their experiences from the turbo-digitalization we all experienced during the last months. the thesis should collect a »state of the art« overview over a to-be-defined area of learning technology & didactics from before the pandemic (easy, since most publications are from that time) and then contrast it with recent statements from key researchers and practitioners that already reflect their experiences and research from the last couple of month. no programming required.
in a recent master thesis in biomedial enginering, a concept was developed and evaluated for an app that supports professional caregivers in their work with demential patients. the concept focusses on »reminiszenzarbeit«, reminicence work. in this bachelorthesis or master project for one or two persons, a prototype is to be implemented of such an app, and evaluated in a real care context. while the information architecture is given, the design is still competely open.
for an ongoing project at the research group we urgently need test data generation and unit test scripts. the project is in constant change, with many independent developers working on different parts. in order to maintain basic functionality across all places of construction, we need unit tests, or even better, unit test generators, and test data generators/factories. this would make a brilliant bachelor thesis for a software engineering student; it could also become a more research oriented work in a master thesis where new forms of test data or unit test generation are explored and evaluated.
in dieser bachelorarbeit für eine person soll eine installation in den räumen der hci-group eingerichtet werden. ziel der installation ist es, einen sozialraum - voraussichtlich die küche - um die möglichkeit der telepräsenz (zb. zoom) in diesem raum zu schaffen. neben der auswahl und aufstellung der hardware soll auch überlegt bzw. implementiert werden, wie dieses informelle angebot in die anderen kommunikations-lösungen des forschungsbereichs integriert werden können (zb. anbindung an slack o.ä.).
