Master Theses

Here you find an overview about our currently available master theses. If you have not found a topic that interests you, but are interested in writing your thesis at IMRG, please direct contact Prof. Dr. Schwabe

Please, keep in mind that thesis submitted in August and February will not be corrected before semester degree conferral dates!

Further information about the MSc program can be found at Master in Informatics

As a part of the project Government as a Platform we offer a master thesis, which will investigate the question of what role data sharing plays in orchestrating stakeholders in crisis situations through digital platforms in the canton of Zurich.  We offer writing your thesis in an exciting project in a multidisciplinary research team, a very dynamic and inspiring working environment, with access to expertise at a leading Swiss university, our partners from the public and private sectors, and plenty of opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange.
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The thesis shall design generative AI for participating in human brainstorming sessions. We ask:

• How can we integrate Generative AI as participants into facilitation software? What are the benefits, limitations, and downsides?

If you're interested, please directly contact Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe

Major parts of the work will be prompt engineering.read more

The goal of the Digital Companion project is to explore how digital health can support patients with chronic diseases in adhering to their treatment plan, as well as physicians in transitioning to a closed-loop obesity treatment using conversational AI. In this thesis, you will research to what extent the patients have adhered to the treatment plan and the effectiveness of the developed system.read more

The goal of the Digital Companion project is to explore how digital health can support patients with chronic diseases in adhering to their treatment plan, as well as physicians in transitioning to a closed-loop obesity treatment using conversational AI. In this thesis, you will research how we can guide/motivate doctors to close the loop in obesity treatment from a collaboration engineering perspective, based on the design science research method.read more

Academic procrastination can result in poor grades, course withdrawals, and a decline in academic performance. It can also affect students’ emotions, social lives, and even mental health. We are looking for motivated students to investigate how (generative) AI-powered systems could help university students reduce academic procrastination.read more

Technology changes the way people live and work. Much of this change happens rapidly, following a hype around a technological innovation or invention. However, what is a hype, how does it emerge, and how do specific stakeholders contribute to it? In this thesis we want to understand better how press and major media depict technological hypes and, more specifically, how stakeholders in IT are affected by it. The goal is to describe hype as a phenomenon of a globalized, interconnected world and to relate it to practice of software developers, inventors, and technology creators.read more

In this thesis project, the student will examine the role of generative AI on scientific reviewing in the information systems discipline. The research aims to understand how much and how AI-generated content affect scholarly peer reviews.

For more information, contact Dr. Liudmila Zavolokina

This thesis explores how integrating humor can enhance critical thinking in AI systems for detecting propaganda. It aims to identify effective ways to use humor to better understand and distinguish propagandistic content, fostering critical thinking among news readers. The student will design and evaluate the effectiveness of humor cues in an experimental setting to help readers better distinguish propaganda. The thesis is embedded in the on-going research project, see:Project description,Related reading

Interested? Contact Dr. Liudmila Zavolokina