Psychology meets Computer Science - from the collection to the analysis of complex data
The interdisciplinary project seminar Psychology meets Computer Science was developed as part of a teaching grant from DDLitLab. The interdisciplinary project seminar for students of computer science and psychology began in the summer semester of 2023 with the aim of addressing the challenges of machine learning in psychology. To this end, the widely applicable programming language Python was taught with an application reference to a psychological question: the students investigated the connection between music consumption behavior and mental health. The participants learned how to formulate their own hypotheses, collect complex data and prepare different types of data for analysis. To this end, they recorded the music consumption behavior and psychometric and psychophysiological data of test subjects. After processing the data using suitable machine learning methods, the results were visualized and reflected upon in order to present them publicly at a final event.
Contact person at the professorship
Collaboration partners at the University of Hamburg
- Dr. Matthias Pillny
- Habiba Schiller
- Junbo Huang