Take part now: Current volunteer searches at the University of Siegen
Our scientists and young researchers are regularly looking for test subjects for their studies and surveys. As a study participant, you become part of research at the University of Siegen and actively support scientific progress. You can find a selection here.
Current studies at a glance
- Faculty II: School of Education, Architecture and the Arts
- What it's all about: Filling out some questionnaires on personality and habits, measuring physiological parameters (ECG, EDA, pupil), viewing erotic images
- Contact: biostudy@psychologie.uni-siegen.de
- Target group: People aged 18 and over, generally healthy / no chronic or psychiatric illnesses (within the last two years)
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Further information:
- Collaborative Research Center "Media of Cooperation"
- Project group "Unsolicited/requested observation in interaction"
- Contact persons: Stephan Habscheid, Dagmar Hoffmann, Tim Hector, Niklas Strüver
- What it's about: In order to gain closer insights into everyday life with smart devices, the research team would like to accompany households as they set up and use smart home devices and record them on video. Depending on the scope of participation, an expense allowance of between 30 and 180 euros is possible.
- Target group:
- Households with smart speakers, smart kitchen appliances (e.g. a Thermomix), networked electronics (e.g. light bulbs, thermostats, door locks or sockets), digital energy controls for a solar panel or similar devices/applications.
- Households that do not yet use such devices but plan to purchase them and would like the research team to help them set up and use them.
- All members of the household must be at least 16 years old.
- Further information and registration
- Contact: ipa-studie@uni-siegen.de
- Faculty III: School of Economic Disciplines, Information Systems, Business Law
- Experience & Interaction Design working group
- Contact person: Dorothee Clasen
- What it's about: The project deals with how people can make authentic, self-determined decisions through the use of new technologies
- Target group: Adult, fluent German speakers who do not work and/or study at the University of Siegen
- Duration: max. 1.5 hours
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Further information:
- Faculty II: School of Education - Architecture and the Arts
- Responsible: Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier, Dipl.-Psych. Hajo Lenz
- Target group: International students at German universities
- Duration: approx. 30 minutes
- Directly to the survey
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Further information:
- Partners: Universities of Siegen, Bonn, Münster and Paderborn
- Contact / project coordinator: Marius Albers, 0176/69229033
- Target group: People aged 70 and over or between 30 and 45 from the municipalities of Hemer, Menden and Balve as well as from the urban areas of Bergneustadt, Koblenz (and Mayen-Koblenz district; on the right bank of the Rhine), Kreuztal, Meinerzhagen, Olpe and Winterberg.
- Further information on the project
- Faculty II: School of Education, Architecture and the Arts
- Responsible: Anna Masling and Anne Möbert
- Further information on the search for test persons
- Faculty II: School of Education - Architecture and the Arts
- Responsible: Prof. Dr. Simon Forstmeier, Pia Brettschneider
- Further information: https://www.enkellos.de
