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The course examines human interactions with information technology. Information systems are discussed as a medium through which human behaviors are shaped and expressed.
Examining human interactions with information technology is essential in software development because it helps developers create user-centered, usable, efficient, adaptable, inclusive, and ethically responsible software. By incorporating insights from human-computer interaction research, developers can design systems that enhance user satisfaction, productivity, and overall well-being.
Topics related to current fields of research in information systems will be offered for the project, especially in the following areas:
• Social media and user behavior
• The effects of digitalization on well-being and behavior
• Digital work and the Internet of Things
• Human-computer interaction
• Information security and information privacy
• Managing artificial intelligence
• Implications and consequences of technological change on individuals, groups, society, and socio-technical units

We will learn the most common methods to study human interactions with information technology like systematic literature review, experimental design, survey, focus groups and interviews. We will work with software like Publish or Perish and SoSci Survey.
Equipped with the knowledge from lectures and hands-on exercises, students will carry out their own small projects.
Since the course takes a research perspective, it also covers the key elements of the research process: specifying the aim of the study, defining research questions and hypotheses, and finding suitable methods and procedures for data collection and analysis, as well as academic writing.

The lecture will be accompanied by hands-on exercises that will allow participants to practice. Then the participants in a group of two people (alternatively, individually) have the opportunity to complete their own project and to present the preliminary and final results in the mid-term and final presentation. At the end of the course, a short written report should be submitted summarizing the investigation carried out.

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