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Thesis Topics
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AI Usage
If you are writing your thesis with us and plan to use AI tools at any stage of your work, please read our guidelines on AI usage here before you begin. If you have questions, talk to your supervisor.
You can find more information about AI usage here.
Open Thesis Topics
| Title | Type | Starting Date | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digitalization of the 4 Mountains Test for (4MT) for Robot-Administered Spatial Memory Assessment | B.Sc. or M.Sc. | As soon as possible | Victoria (Ya-Ting) Yang |
| Sound-Based Storytelling for Vocabulary Learning in Child–Robot Interaction | M.Sc. | As soon as possible | Katharina Biernacka |
Ongoing Theses
| Title | Type | Student | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating Embodiment for Child‑Appropriate LLM‑Powered Real‑World Child–Robot Interaction | B.Sc. | Ada Potur |
Irina Rudenko (SARAI), Utku Norman (ITAS) |
| Automatic Evaluation and Improvement of Child‑Appropriate Robot Dialogue Using Developmentally Grounded Metrics | M.Sc. | Xiu Zihan |
Irina Rudenko (SARAI), Utku Norman (ITAS) |
| "This Could Have Been a Text": Evaluating Social Robot Support for Phone Call Anxiety | M.Sc. | Vlatka Tolj | Caterina Neef |
| When Form Meets Function: Embodiment Choices for Social Robotics | M.Sc. | Jasmin Azarfar | Caterina Neef |
| Playful Social Robotics and its Impact on Employees Well-being | B.Sc. | Cedric Yukio Morrison-Cleator | Gabriele Serafino |
| Development of a human activity recognition approach tailored for hydration activity & stretch robot platform and extract relevant information for tracking hydration status (HAR4Hydration) | B.Sc. | Simon Maucher | Victoria (Ya-Ting) Yang |
Finished Theses
| Title | Type | Student | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Robot’s Moral Compass? Exploring Citizen Perspectives on Moral Decisions by Robots in Public Spaces | B.Sc. | Kassandra Veress |
Nora Weinberger (ITAS), Utku Norman (ITAS), Barbara Bruno (SARAI) |
| Using a Low-cost Socially Mediating Robot to Assist Nonverbal Children in an Inclusive Daycare | M.Sc. | David Bogusch |
Jan Rixen (HCIA), Romain Maure (SARAI) |
| Robot-Mediated Rhyme Learning with Adaptive Complexity: A Child-Centered Design Approach | M.Sc. | Yavor Lakov |
Irina Rudenko (SARAI), Utku Norman (ITAS) |
| Socially Aware Navigation (SAN) | M.Sc. | David Krenz | Victoria (Ya-Ting) Yang |
| Real-time Sarcasm and Irony detection in HRI | M.Sc. | Katharina Biernacka | Barbara Bruno, Caterina Neef |
| Privacy-preserving feature extraction for HRI and Effect on Self Disclosure | B.Sc. | Xiyu Zhong | Romain Maure |
| Draw My Life: A Drawing Interface to foster Children Self-disclosure | B.Sc. | Junxian Liu | Romain Maure |
| Multi-Modal active User Detection and Command Identification for Service Robots | M.Sc. | Vincent Pfaefflin | Victoria (Ya-Ting) Yang |
| Design of a Human-Robot Activity for Training Phonological Awareness in Kindergarten Children | B.Sc. | Jasmin Azarfar |
Irina Rudenko (SARAI), Utku Norman (ITAS) |
| "How is it to be a human?" – Enabling a Social Robot to have open Conversations with Humans on fundamental Topics | B.Sc. | Oliver Aberle |