Keyword: psychology
Early speech development in children
2011-12-13, Dept. of Psychology, University of Hamburg
This talk was presented in the auxiliary seminar for the course Developmental Psychology by Philipp Schlesinger and me.
The base for our content were a chapter from a textbook and a scientific paper explainig a study, which we summarized and presented. We decided to augment the textbook content with a proper introduction into the field of linguistics, which was obviously lacking for people just reading the text. Also, there was a short quiz and a discussion at the end..
Gamification
2011-06-29, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
This talk was held as the first of three accompanying short talks for the Interaction Design course.
I gave an introduction into the world of "gamification" and explained how people came up with the idea of enriching application software with playful elements. The content of this talk was limited, as it was meant to be a starting point for further individual research. The discussion among the audience concerning viable implementations and more examples worked well to complete the event.
Operant Conditioning
2011-06-08, Dept. of Psychology, University of Hamburg
This talk was held by Annika Kolaska, Martin Selke and me during the seminar course for Allgemeine Psychologie 2. It is modeled after chapters 6 and 7 from James E. Mazur: Learning and Behavior. I was responsible for the last third about the two studies.
In the first part, Annika introduced and explained the fundamentals of operant confitioning as well as several relevant experiments. In the second part, Martin further illuminated and expanded on that knowledge. I then showed two studies in which operant conditioning was employed in two distinct fashions.
Specific perceptions: motion, space, depth and size
2010-11-22, Dept. of Psychology, University of Hamburg
This talk was held in a course on cognitive psychology, together with two fellow students. My part was the one in the middle, about depth perception.
After the part about motion (in which I was only slightly involved), I introduced depth perception as a curious feat of the mind, in light of our retinas being two-dimensional. I then proceeded to explain how to feel the muscles in the eye, showed a variety of depth cues in still images and videos and explained binocular depth perception as a result of shifted retinal images. My part of the talk ended with a very brief neurological look at depth perception. We used the Ames room as a depth-based illusion as a transition to size and scale, the third an final part of the talk.
Spielerei mit Streifenbildern
2010-10-10 15:57:43
Heute gibt's mal wieder etwas völlig anderes. Ich möchte euch eine Idee zeigen, mit der ich vor einiger Zeit mal herumexperimentiert habe, die mit der Wahrnehmung von teilweise verdeckten Bildern zu tun hat. Die Idee stammt aus einem Video, das ich vor langer Zeit mal gesehen habe. Dort hat jemand diesen Effekt mit schwarzen Silhouetten erzeugt. An dieser Stelle bin ich mutig und versuche es direkt mit einem Farbbild, allerdings einem einfachen. Hier ist eine Spirale:
On addressing conversational partners in german
2010-04-26, Institute for German language, Universität Hamburg
This talk was held by Luisa Dewitz and me in a course about the typological analysis of the german language by Dr. Kameyama.
Due to our topic being the first one, we had little time to prepare the talk. Fortunately we succeeded in combing through the source material, giving structure to our content and even including some interactive elements, such as the map of addressing systems in relation to each other, which was created with and by the course participants.
