Practical Social Interactive Systems

Lecturer:

Prof. Dr. Sven Mayer

Tutorials:

Florian Bemmann

Sophia Sakel

Hours per week:

4

ECTS:

6

Language:

Englisch

Module:

Vertiefende Themen: P 1, P 2, WP 9, WP 12, WP 15, WP 26, WP 27 (MA INF PStO 2022); P 1, P 3, P 5, WP 3, WP 9 (MA MI PStO 2022); P 6, P 9, WP 3, WP 6 (MA MCI PStO 2022); WP 48, WP 51, WP 52 (BA INF PStO 2022); WP 26, WP 29, WP 30 (BA MI PStO 2022); WP 4 (BA MI-NF PStO 2022)

Syllabus

Our everyday technology has many influences on humans as social individuals. Interface and system design decisions that we, as developers and system designers, make imply biases and have (often subconscious) effects on how we communicate with people, consume information, and perceive our environment and peers.
In this practical course, students will explore how interface designs affect social aspects. They will design and implement novel interface variants that propose a solution to one partial aspect of modern negative social and societal influence. Specifically, there will be projects of two research fields: (1) Chat and communication systems in the context of social and mental well-being, and (2) rethinking social media and news portal interfaces to improve societal discourse and public opinion making.

Schedule

Mondays, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr, c.t. in Frauenlobstr. 7A, Room 257

05.05.2025 - 21.07.2025 (no lecture on the 09.06.2025)

All dates are mandatory attendance.

Grading

The grade is based on a presentation and a written paper.

• The presentation must last 10-20 minutes.
• The paper must contain 20,000 - 30,000 characters using the LaTex template

Registration

Interested students can apply for this practical course via the central registration process. Details on this will be published via institute's communication channels. Signing up for this course directly is not possible.