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From late 2009 till 2014 Tobias Krauthoff studied computer science at the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf with the minor subject of mathematics. In 2012 he received the bachelor degree whereby he focused on computer networks and communications. As a result of his bachelor's thesis, the officially, mobile application for the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf has been founded. In november 2014 he received the degree of master of science with distinction, where the master's thesis was about "Measurement of Position-based Network-Characteristics in Cellular Networks while Moving".

Since December 2014 Tobias Krauthoff is scientiest at the chair of Technology of Social Networks, under the leadership of Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kalman Graffi. He also is member of the graduation school of the NRW-Fortschrittskolleg undefinedOnline-Partizipaton, where he does his doctoral studies. He submitted his thesis with the titel "Dialog-Based Online Argumentation" in November 2017 and defended it in January 2018.

Thesis and final project topics

Students can choose from a list of open topics for their Bachelor/Master's Thesis or provide ideas of their own. We can discuss topics via mail, phone or in my office anytime.
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Open topics for theses and final projects:

  • Upon Request

Currently advised theses:

  • none

Finished theses:

  • (BA) Visualization of an Argument Structure Online
  • (MA) An Exerperimental Comparison of Online Discussion Softare on the Basis of Objective Metrics
  • (BA) Evaluation of Feedback Mechanisms in Argumentation Software
  • (BA) Management Interface for D-BAS
  • (BA) Recommender Systems for Webbased Argumentation Systems
  • (BA) An Auto-Completion for Statements in Argumentation Systems
  • (BA) An Analyzer for Dialogues out of Webbased Argumentations
  • (BA) Interface for the Exchange of Arguments in the Web

My Research

The Internet offers the possibility that all people, affected by a decision, can participate. Basically here is the discussion between the participants. Previous approaches for the technical assistance of this kind of deliberation can be divided in forums, pro/contra-lists and argumentation maps. However, these are very problematic in practice. Forums and pro/ contra-lists are scalable in the number of posts, not with the number of participants. In addition, the relation between contributions is missing. Solutions based on argument maps are avoiding this problems, by having a structured representation of arguments. However, they are not accessible to untrained participants.

The focus of research is on the one hand the implementation of a dialog-based software, which is supported by time-shifted dialogues and on the other hand measuring discussions with objective criterias.

The former should be restructure dialogs, which take place online. The prototype should be a representative of all those users, who have already participated in the discussion. If a new user joins the discussion, she will get a argument out of the database, has to provide feedback and based on the feedback, a new argument will be choosen. This has to be usable for any user, even users without any knowledge in argumentation theory. In general, there are several problems, e.g.: a) find a datastructure and a argumentation scheme, which is suitable for the datastructure, b) evaluate the usability of the new prototype and c) evaluate the feedback options for reacting on arguments. The latter there is no set of objective and reliables metrics for measuring discussions, their qualitity as well as the used software.

The software ist available as open source on undefinedGitHub and can be directly used via undefineddbas.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de.

An early prototype is available: undefinedD-BAS.

 

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Visiting hours

Whenever I am present or by arranging a meeting via email.

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