Semester and Master Projects

Semester and Master Projects in Web-based Interaction Systems
 
Information
Projects are available for students from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences, as well as from the School of Engineering.

These projects are related with the activities in Web-based Interaction Systems of the React Group. The main application domains are e-Learning and Knowledge Management.

Contact the listed PhD Students for information and Dr. Denis Gillet to sign up.

Spring 2010 Projects

G056: Widgets in social software: bundles and sequences

Contacts: Mr. Evgeny Bogdanov or Dr. Christophe Salzmann

Graaasp is an aggregator software that is being developed at the Laboratoire d’Automatique in the context of the ROLE European project. Graaasp can aggregate single widgets. However, widgets can often complement each other, some widgets can depend on the other widgets. The sequence in which to widgests should be used may also be important. In other words, not a single widgets becomes important for a user, but a group of widgets. The goal of this project is to investigate different scenarios for representation of widgets bundles management within graaasp and implement the best scenario.

The candidate should be familiar with the Ruby on Rails framework and Internet technologies, or strongly willing to learn them.

 

G049: Tools and services integration in social software

Contacts: Mr. Evgeny Bogdanov or Dr. Christophe Salzmann

Graaasp is an aggregator software that is being developed at the Laboratoire d’Automatique in the context of the ROLE European project. The aggregator should allow users to easily mount and unmount different tools, services, or agents. Thus, the goal of the project is to investigate and implement the mounting mechanism allowing 
for example to mount widgets from the Widgetbox site and friends from Google Wave into Graaasp.

The candidate should be familiar with the Ruby on Rails framework and Internet technologies, or strongly willing to learn them. 

G003: Network visualization interface for a Web 2.0 collaborative application

Contact: Ms. Sandy El Helou

Web 2.0 social software applications are becoming increasing popular. Their usage is no longer limited to building and maintaining friendship ties. They have also started to be used in informal and formal learning environments, where they facilitate participation, knowledge sharing and reflection. As online exchange in its different forms is continuously growing, ranking and filtering contributions taking into account the target user’s interest and learning objectives become essential for increasing the learning efficiency.

The aim of this project is to develop and evaluate a recommender system that is able to recommend for a particular learner adequate learning resources, activities, experts and peers depending on his/her learning objectives. The system is expected to rely on the target user’s social network and previous interactions in order to provide personalized recommendations.

The candidate should have good programming skills in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, and/or Matlab.

 

G058: Evaluation of rating system in social software

Contact: Ms. Na Li

With the advent of online social software, trust-based rating systems have emerged which exploit the trust network existing among users and thus make personalized rating predictions. This project aims at designing and evaluating a rating system for Web 2.0 collaborative learning social software relying of the 3A model. The candidate is requested to design and conduct an appropriate approach to evaluate the performance of the rating system using open dataset of social software.