
Sophia Sakel
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
PhoneStudyThe 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. |
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Coping with CoronaThe 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
Teaching Assistance
- Winter term 2021/2022: Proseminar Media Informatics (Teaching assistant)
- Winter term 2021/2022: Proseminar Media Informatics (Teaching assistant)
Publications
2022 | |
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Heiko Drewes, Sophia Sakel, Heinrich Hussmann
User Perception of Smooth Pursuit Target Speed 2022 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (bib) |