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Thesis Supervision

If you are interested in writing a bachelor/master’s thesis with me, please read this page carefully and send an email to me (mansu[at]cs.uni-saarland.de) with “Thesis Supervision” in its title and we can talk more if there’s a spot!

 

Here are some open thesis topics for which I am seeking for thesis students. You can either propose your own topic for your thesis or choose a topic from these thesis topics. In either case, you would need to discuss your ideas with me and Prof. Tomo Nagashima to reach a mutual agreement before getting accepted as a thesis student. 

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When reaching out, please also fill out the Thesis Interest Form below. 

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1. Designing and developing interactive technologies for teaching complex systems or emergent science concepts (Preferred background: CS/HCI/Design, Design-focused thesis)

  • In this project, you will design and develop interactive technologies to support the instruction of complex systems concepts. You can work on platforms such as CTAT, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Spline, or NetLogo to develop your software. You will conduct small scale interviews with teachers and students to evaluate your design at the final phase. 

2. Assessing the effect of an intelligent tutoring software in remediating robust misconceptions and fostering deeper learning with transfer (Preferred background: Learning Science/Instructional Design/Science Education, Experiment-focused thesis) 

  • In this project, you will assist the design of the behavioral graph of an intelligent tutoring software to remove students’ misconceptions through multi-step hints and immediate feedback. You will conduct a pilot study with a few pre-service teachers and students in Saarbrücken to test hypotheses on how this tutor may help with addressing misconceptions and fostering deeper learning with knowledge transfer. 

3. Understanding learners’ cognitive engagement patterns and self-regulated learning behaviors in complex learning environment  (Preferred background: Learning Science/Data Science/Learning Analytics, Data-analysis-focused thesis) 

  • In this project, you will use existing data (e.g., log data from video analysis that capture students’ SRL behaviors) to find meaningful patterns in student behaviors when they interact with a complex learning environment. You may leverage LLM to understand the sequential patterns and SRL processes that can lead to positive learning outcomes.

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