Sophia Sakel

E-Mail	sophia.sakel ät ifi.lmu.de
Phone	+49 89 2180-75130
Address	Sophia Sakel University of Munich (LMU) Media Informatics Frauenlobstr. 7a 80337 Munich, Germany
Room	431 (4th floor)

Research Interests

My research area evolves around mobile and ubiquious technologies to support mental well-being. I explore different technologies to support a positive mindset as well as identifying digital indicator of influencing factors on mood and well-being. I am also interessted in supporting users who suffer from bad mental health or even mental disorders like depression, stress and social anxiety with suitable technology of any kind (smartphones, conversational agents, tangible objects and others).

Research Projects

	PhoneStudy The PhoneStudy project is an interdisciplinary Mobile Sensing research project, by the chair of Psychological Methods and Assessment, Media Informatics, and Computational Statistics. Its integral part is the PhoneStudy research app, that assesses behavioral and contextual data of study participants in the wild. The data is then used to investigate the relationships between people's behavior, well-being, personality and emotions. I joined the team in September 2021 where I am now head of the development team. I coordinate the development and maintenance of the PhoneStudy app and supervise student assistants.
	Coping with Corona The Coping with Corona study, or short CoCo, is a joint research project of the WWU Münster, University of Osnabrück and LMU Munich that deals with the investigation of various social and psychological contexts during the Corona pandemic. We are particularly interested in the extent to which smartphone data can be used to infer relationships between social interaction, personality, mood, and well-being, etc.

Theses

Open

BA/MA/PA

Designing a Tangible Object for Stress-Relief

In Progress

2022
Tim Olbrich	master thesis	HappyJar: Concept Development and Evaluation of a Mobile App Using Positive Tracking to Improve Users' Well-being
Flavia Criscione	bachelor thesis	HappyJar: Concept Development and Evaluation of a Mobile App Using Positive Tracking to Improve Users' Well-being
Lea Sigethy	PA/BA	Entwicklung und Evaluation einer mobilen App zur Studienorientierung im Fach Informatik
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Joana Braja	master thesis	Designing a Post Therapy Guide to Support Depressive Patients Over Time

Teaching Assistance

Winter term 2021/2022: Proseminar Media Informatics (Teaching assistant)
Winter term 2021/2022: Proseminar Media Informatics (Teaching assistant)

Publications

2022
Download	Heiko Drewes, Sophia Sakel, Heinrich Hussmann User Perception of Smooth Pursuit Target Speed 2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (bib)