I am interested projects related to HCI, social networking and also learning. I am also happy to chat to students about their ideas even if not in these areas. A few ideas for projects are also given below:
This project will involve research into what makes a user trust others within an online social network and how to design the interface to incorporate features that encourage trust or reflect how trustworthy someone is – what do users consider important when building trust in online systems and how might this be best represented in an interface?
This project is based around how to design an app that uses persuasive techniques to encourage positive behaviour. The behaviour the app would be trying to encourage might, for example, be good study practices, or a healthy lifestyle. The project will involve looking at research into persuasion, for example Fogg’s Behaviour Model and designing elements of the interface to try and embed aspects of this to achieve positive effects for the user.
The project will involve the design of a game which aims to teach mathematics. The project will involve research into what makes an effective educational game and will look at how to effectively build a game which encodes learning outcomes from the mathematics curriculum into the game mechanic.