Theses

General Information
We offer interesting Bachelor‘s and Master‘s thesis projects in the fields of social computing, data science, and learning technologies (see our research topics for more details) for students of Applied Computer Science, Komedia, and ISE. Below, we list the open, ongoing and completed theses supervised by our group. Please feel free to contact us for further details. You can also suggest your own research idea within the context of our research fields. For more information about our work, ckeck out our research projects and publications. We will then help you fine tune the scope and successfully conduct the project. If you tell us your interests and skills, we can find or define a thesis project together with you that matches your strengths best.
Thesis Guide
Please read our thesis guide for further information on how to conduct a thesis project at our group.
How to apply for Bachelor's / Master's Theses
If you want to write your thesis at our group, just contact us with a 2-page academic CV and a copy of your grade transcript from the university so far. The CV should include a short list of your academic / professional activities (finished projects, internships, publications, etc.) as well as your interests and skills. In particular, point out anything you may have done related to our research fields and why do you want to write a thesis at our group. Make sure to contact us via your official UDE email address.
Open Theses
Type |
Topic |
Contact |
Master's Thesis | Semantic Interest Modeling Using Embeddings | Prof. Mohamed Chatti |
Master's Thesis | Recommending Learning Resources Based on Educational Knowledge Graphs | Prof. Mohamed Chatti |
Master's Thesis | What-if? Interactions with an Explainable Scientific Literature Recommender System | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's Thesis | Explainable Learner Modeling | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's Thesis (Komedia) | An Evaluation Framework for Visually Explainable Recommender Systems | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's Thesis | Spark-based Indicator Execution in OpenLAP | Prof. Mohamed Chatti |
Master's Thesis | Supporting Indicator Reuse and Recommendation in OpenLAP | Prof. Mohamed Chatti |
Additional topics in the areas of data science, learning analytics, visual analytics, and human-AI interaction are available on request.
Reserved Theses
Type |
Topic |
Contact |
Master's Thesis | Implementation and Evaluation of Different Intelligibility Types in a Visually Explainable Recommender System | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Bachelor's Thesis | Collaborative Mindmap-based Organization of Learning Resources in CourseMapper | Prof. Mohamed Chatti |
Ongoing Theses
Type |
Topic |
Supervisor |
Author |
Submission |
Master's Thesis | Learning Analytics Indicators to Support Personalization in CourseMapper | Prof. Mohamed Chatti | Ravali Bathula | 06/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Visualizing Evolution of Collaboration among Organizations | Prof. Mohamed Chatti | Elham Valipour | 06/2021 |
Master's Thesis | The effects of personal characteristics and level of detail on the perception of explanations in a recommender system | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi | Laura Vorgerd | 05/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Transparent Learning Analytics Indicators in OpenLAP | Prof. Mohamed Chatti | Shoeb Ahmed Joarder | 04/2021 |
Bachelor's Thesis | A User Study to Evaluate Interactive Linking of Text and Visualizations | Prof. Mohamed Chatti | Fadi Ajamian | 02/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Conference Insights: Visual Exploration of Topics and Trends in Conference Data | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi | Swarna Sri Teja Rampalli | 12/2020 |
Completed Theses
Type |
Topic |
Author |
Submission |
Master's Thesis | Learning Analytics to support the self-regulated course planning of students: A case study with the PERLA framework | Florian Richtscheid | 09/2020 |
Master's Thesis | Learning Analytics to Support Novice Programmers' Self-Regulated Learning | Volkan Yuecepur | 09/2020 |
Master's Thesis | A Semantic Interest Modeling Toolkit | Fangzheng Ji | 08/2020 |
Master's Thesis | Explainable and Scrutable Interest Modeling in Social Media using Visualizations | Yiqi Sun | 08/2020 |
Master's Thesis | Opening Black-Box Interest Models for Transparent Recommendation | Shadi Zumor | 08/2020 |
Master's Thesis | Supporting Interactive Indicators in OpenLAP | Abdul-Rahman Khan | 06/2020 |
Master's Thesis | A Generic Infrastructure to Support Different Database Technologies in OpenLAP | Muhammad Faizan Riaz | 11/2019 |
Master's Thesis | A Usability Improvement of the Indicator Editor in OpenLAP | Bilawal Wajid Ali | 11/2019 |
Master's Thesis | SALMON: Sharing and Annotating Learning Materials Online | Farbod Aprin | 04/2019 |
Master's Thesis | Automatically detecting Arabic broken plurals | Yaffa Ibreighith | 01/2019 |
Master's Thesis | Integration of an xAPI-based Learning Record Store in the Open Learning Analytics Platform | Sammar Javed | 01/2019 |
Master's Thesis | An Automated Testing Tool for User Interfaces of Web Applications | Ruiqi Zhao | 11/2018 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Development of a Standalone Smartwatch Application for Health Promotion: A User-Centered Approach | Yao Chen | 10/2018 |
Master's Thesis | Development of an xAPI Dashboard for Moodle | Qi An | 09/2018 |
Master's Thesis | Analysis of the Evolution of Collaboration and Publication Activities in a Group of Young Researchers | Mina Ghobadi | 09/2018 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Extending a H5P Video Tagging Tool with a Tag Cloud | Leander Heinrich | 08/2018 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Guided Learning in the Computational Thinking Learning Environment ctGameStudio | Jessica Feldkamp | 08/2018 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Evaluating the Transitions between Reactive Rule-based and Block-based Programming from a Computational Thinking Perspective | Anna Taphorn | 07/2018 |
Master's Thesis | A Framework for Analysing Collaboration Patterns of Online Learning Groups using Sequence Analysis | Dorian Doberstein | 06/2018 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Fostering Computational Thinking Skills with a Simulation Environment for Roulette Strategies | Thomas Jagla | 06/2018 |