It is the third week of May 2023 and I have started conducting my in-situ study more than six weeks ago. During this time, I have faced many challenges – most of which were either related to my research equipment or the weather or both… As you might have seen in the news, we have […]
Read MoreBeyond preparing the report on the project for the European Union, I have spent the last month thinking about the necessary steps to clean the real-world study data. Data cleaning is a first step in a chain of tasks which need to be finished in order to preprocess the data for further analysis. Cleaning the […]
Read MoreEthics in scientific research is a multi-faceted and very interesting issue. I had been part of the Pilot Research Ethics Committee of TU Wien since 2021 and, hence, have a good knowledge about reviewing studies involving human participation. It is very interesting to see the differences and commonalities in Ethics review vs approval. While we […]
Read MoreBeing back in Vienna, I had the great opportunity to present my research to the greater public. On Sept 29th, 2023, I participated in the European Researchers Night! It was a great afternoon/ evening with lot’s of interesting conversations. Children and adults were stopping by and asked very interesting questions about my research and how […]
Read MoreIt’s August 20th, 2023, and my visit here at UCSB will be over in 10 days time. It has been a very busy, intellectually stimulating and enjoyable time. Since the start of my Outgoing Phase March 1st, 2023, I have met great scholars and enjoyed many interesting conversations also with graduate students here at UCSB. […]
Read MoreIt’s August 18th, 2023 and this is a very important day! I have successfully finished all my data collections at UCSB! This is just-in-time so to speak – I’m scheduled to arrive back at my home university, TU Wien, on Sep 1st, 2023! Taken together the online and in-situ studies I ran while visiting UCSB, […]
Read MoreIt is the beginning of June and I have, finally, a first set of real-world study data collected. As explained in an earlier post, I had to overcome considerable challenges and find creative solutions. As of now more than 40 subjects have participated which is a lot given the circumstances and the time effort of […]
Read MoreUC Santa Barbara has a cross-departmental lecture series on Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS). On June 7th, 2023, I will be giving a talk on variance-based Structural Equation Modeling as part of this lecture series! I’m excited to provide you with an overview about this method which I have been using as a […]
Read MoreExchanging knowledge is of key importance in science in general. It is also a fundamental goal of the time I’m spending at UC Santa Barbara. On May 25th, 2023, I had the honor to give a talk on Geographic-Aware Augmented Reality in the Colloquium of the Geography Department at UCSB. My talk focused on the […]
Read MoreMarch 10, 2023 – and the time has finally come: The data collection as part of my online study is complete! A total of more than 200 students from my host university, UC Santa Barbara, participated. My subjects were asked to do a variety of challenging tasks: Not only did they have to indicate where […]
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