Would you like to contribute to open science? Do you like UI/UX design? Are you maybe interested in user testing?
MAP-VERSE (MAP Usability – Validated Empirical Research by Systematic Evaluation) metadata repository (https://map-verse.github.io/) was established by an international research initiative (https://map-verse.github.io/Repository/page/about/) that believes in open science. This platform provides researchers with structured access to best-practice datasets, specifically from eye tracking, neuroimaging (EEG, fMRI), and human sensing (EDA, cardiovascular activity, skin temperature) collected across various geospatial tasks in-lab, online, in virtual environments, or in real-world scenarios (see Keskin et al. 2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/agile-giss-6-30-2025).
The BSc thesis will focus on the usability of the MAP-VERSE platform through:
User Interface (UI): adding new functionalities such as (but not limited to):
Enabling search by researcher names, research areas, or cartographic stimulus type
Visualizing links between studies using the same datasets or follow-up studies
User Experience (UX): usability testing with researchers via online questionnaires
Experimental design, data collection, and analysis of user studies
The student is expected to improve the UI of the platform and gather insights on the UX, which could be further implemented.
This research is planned to be co-supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vassilios Krassanakis from the University of West Attica, and (when necessary) in collaboration with Tong Qin and Bing He from the MAP-VERSE initiative.
For more information:
Contact: Dr. Merve Keskin, merve.keskin@plus.ac.at
Start: As soon as possible
Prerequisites/qualification: (not necessary but useful) familiarity with website creation on GitHub (e.g. Hugo), interest in empirical user testing
Keywords: usability, website creation, metadata repository, open science
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