With this seminar, we aim to provide students with the possibility to independently work on state-of-the-art research topics in addition to the knowledge gained in the lectures of the human-centered systems lab  (Prof. Mädche). The research group “Information Systems I” (IS I) headed by Prof. Mädche focuses in research, education, and innovation on designing human-centered systems. It is positioned at the intersection of Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

In the seminar, participants will get deeper insights in a contemporary research topic in the field of information systems. The actual seminar topics will be derived from current research activities of the research group.  Our research assistants offer a rich set of topics from our research clusters. Students can select among these topics individually depending on their personal interests. The seminar is carried out in the form of a literature-based thesis project. In the seminar, students will acquire the important methodological skills of running a systematic literature review.

Learning Objectives:

• engage with a contemporary topic at the intersection of Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), specifically human-centered systems
• carry out a structured literature search for a given topic
• aggregate the collected information in a suitable way to present and extract knowledge
• write a seminar thesis following academic writing standards
• deliver a presentation in a scientific context in front of an auditorium

Prerequisites: No specific prerequisites are required for the seminar.

Literature: Further literature will be made available in the seminar.

Language of instruction: English

Contact: Dehui Kong  (dehui.kong@kit.edu)