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, check 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.

How to apply for Bachelor's / Master's Theses
If you want to write your thesis in 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 shortlist 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 in our group. Make sure to contact us via your official UDE email address.
Please read our thesis guide for further information on how to conduct a thesis project at our group.
Open Theses
Type |
Topic |
Contact |
Master's or Bachelor's Thesis (Komedia) [This thesis can be written in English or German] |
Understanding the Impact of Explanation Scope on the Perception of an Explainable Scientific Literature Recommender System | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's or Bachelor's Thesis (Komedia) [This thesis can be written in English or German] |
Effects of Personal Characteristics and Level of Detail on the Perception of Explanations in a Scientific Literature Recommender System | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's or Bachelor's Thesis (Komedia) [This thesis can be written in English or German] |
Effects of Transparent User Models on the Perception of an Explainable Scientific Literature Recommender System | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi |
Master's Thesis | Spark-based Indicator Execution in OpenLAP | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Supporting Indicator Reuse and Recommendation in OpenLAP | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Privacy-Preserving Learner Data Management in OpenLAP | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Bachelor's Thesis (Komedia) (English/German) | A Usability Evaluation of the OpenLAP Indicator Editor | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Semantic Interest Modeling Using Embeddings | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Additional topics in the areas of data science, learning analytics, visual analytics, explainable recommendation, and human-AI interaction are available on request.
Reserved Theses
Type |
Topic |
Contact |
Master's Thesis | Validation of a Conceptual Framework for Self-Actualization Goals of Transparent User Models | M.Sc. Mouadh Guesmi M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Master's Thesis | Knowledge Graphs for Knowledge Concept Recommendation in CourseMapper | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Bachelor's Thesis | Interactive Visualizations of Researchers' Interests based on Publication and Conference Data | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | A Toolkit for xAPI-based Data Collection in OpenLAP | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | PaperExplorer: A Visual Analytics Tool for the Personalized Exploration of Research Papers | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Modeling Learner Knowledge State Using Knowledge Graphs | M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Development of a Course Knowledge Graph Management System in CourseMapper | M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain M. Sc. Rawaa Alatrash M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Master's Thesis | Analyzing Learning Channels in CourseMapper Using NLP to Support Teacher's Awareness and Monitoring | M. Sc. Rawaa Alatrash M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Ongoing Theses
Type |
Topic |
Supervisor |
Author |
Submission |
Master's Thesis | What-if? Visual Explanations in a Scientific Literature Recommender System | M. Sc. Mouadh Guesmi M. Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Jaleh Ghorbani Bavani | 06/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Why? and How? Visual Explanations in a Scientific Literature Recommender System | M. Sc. Mouadh Guesmi M. Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Hoda Ghanbarzadeh | 07/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Implementation and Evaluation of Explanations with Varying Level of Details in a Recommender System | M. Sc. Mouadh Guesmi M. Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Tannaz Vahidi | 07/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Recommendation of Study Programs and Courses Based on Student's Interests | M. Sc. Shoeb Joarder | Jing Song | 09/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Effective Interest-Based Recommendation Using Embeddings | M. Sc. Shoeb Joarder M. Sc. Mouadh Guesmi M. Sc. Qurat Ul Ain |
Lamees Kadhim | 09/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Human-Centered Design of Indicator Specification Cards in OpenLAP | M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder | Seyedemarzie Mirhashemi | 10/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Development and Evaluation of a Notification System to Support Awareness in CourseMapper | M.Sc. Qurat Ul Ain M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Baohui Deng | 11/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Recommendation of Learning Resources Using Knowledge Graphs | M.Sc. Rawaa Alatrash M.Sc. Qurat Ul Ain M.Sc. Shoeb Joarder |
Paul Arthur Meteng Kamdem | 11/2022 |
Completed Theses
Type |
Topic |
Author |
Submission |
Bachelor's Thesis | Interactive Visualizations to Compare Educational Data Science Conferences | Abdallah Ali | 05/2022 |
Bachelor's Thesis | A Toolkit for the Aggregation and Topic Extraction of University Course Data | Aryan Saraswat | 04/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Constructing Educational Knowledge Graphs for Learning Materials in CourseMapper | Komlan Gluck Charles Bakar | 04/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Achieving Self-Actualization through Opening, Scrutinizing and Explaining User Models | Alptug Tayyar | 04/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Supporting Interaction and Collaboration around Learning Materials in CourseMapper | Benjamine Stella Wobiwo Teda | 01/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Collaborative Video-Based Learning in CourseMapper | Ilia Nassif | 01/2022 |
Master's Thesis | Implementation and Evaluation of Different Intelligibility Types in a Visually Explainable Recommender System | Yasaman Roshanavandi | 11/2021 |
Bachelor's Thesis | An Interactive Visualization Tool for the Comparison of Conference Topics | Basem Abughallya | 08/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Learning Analytics Indicators to Support Personalization in CourseMapper | Ravali Bathula | 06/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Visualizing Evolution of Collaboration among Organizations | 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 | Laura Vorgerd | 05/2021 |
Bachelor's Thesis | Collaborative Mindmap-based Organization of Learning Resources in CourseMapper | Lei Cheng | 05/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Transparent Learning Analytics Indicators in OpenLAP | Shoeb Ahmed Joarder | 04/2021 |
Bachelor's Thesis | A User Study to Evaluate Interactive Linking of Text and Visualizations | Fadi Ajamian | 02/2021 |
Master's Thesis | Conference Insights: Visual Exploration of Topics and Trends in Conference Data | Swarna Sri Teja Rampalli | 12/2020 |
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 |