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Sophia Sakel

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
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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)


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