2018 - 2024
During my time in high school it became clear that higher education was the right fit for me. However there was still one question, which field should I study. Mathematics, physics, economics and computer science came to my mind initially. After some research I found information systems. It seemed to be the perfect program for me as it combined economics and computer science. I later learned that I was much more than that, which deepened my interest in the field even more.
So in 2018, I enrolled at the University of Bamberg for the bachelor program of information systems. During my first year I met so many new people which shared and also challenged my interests. We laughed, studied and shared moments together. I was motivated. I loved learning new things. Among those I learned how systems are created, how to code properly and how to manage projects. If you are interested in the project, it is described at the bottom.
It is March 2020, I am about to start my fourth semester and the world just stopped. The university closed their building and a curfew was in place. I found myself, as many others, confined to my apartment. Although I was one of the more fortunate as I had a gaming PC at home which I could use for social interaction with other people but those were not the people I knew from university. My motivation also dropped during this time. So I took fewer courses per semester. It was at this time when I wanted to still do something and I enrolled in a Spanish course which I attended for 5 semesters to B2 level (I wouldn't even in the slightest call myself a B2 Spanish speaker).
After I finished all my bachelors courses it was time to write my bachelor's thesis. I struggled in finding a fitting topic and to be honest I was scared. So I pushed starting it back. To not feel entirely useless in the mean time I just took masters courses to explore which area suits me. In February 2024 I turned my thesis on 'Conception of a Tool with optimized Breakout Rooms: Insights from a Design Science Study' in and received my diploma in April.
Below you will find my accomplishments from my bachelor studies.
A project to create a web application to accompany the phases of retrospectives of scrum sprints. The project included user management with personalized profiles, logins, roles, and teams assignments as well as admin and moderator views, and session views where notes can be put on the screen of every users containing some text content. These notes can be analyzed using one out of three visualization options and be clustered by using custom category tags. In the end a summary can created as a pdf which included the contents of the notes and the participating users. A history of all retrospective sessions is saved to review later.
To accomplish this project we used PHP and JavaScript in the backend, and HTML and CSS in the frontend. To store the data, we used MariaDB. To host the webpage, Apache Webserver.
Lastly, the functionality was extensively documented and a user manual created. We used the former to compare it to the requirements of our fictional contract.
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- Bachelor's Thesis -
Conception of a Tool with optimized Breakout Rooms: Insights from a Design Science Study
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the entire world with challenges. To ensure that pupils and students can continue their education without visiting educational institutions, schools and universities are opting to continue lessons virtually using online conferencing tools such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. However, there is room for improvement in the functionality of breakout rooms. Such optimization will sustainably improve distance learning. The existing problems need to be identified and solved as part of this. To this end, a design science research paradigm is used to create a concept for improving online conferencing tools with breakout rooms. The result of this research is not only a tool concept, but also a guideline for a better discourse in breakout rooms. These solve some of the existing problems in BRs. The latter can already be used in current online conferencing tools.