Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # colaps Website of the research group collapse ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://colaps.team/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://colaps.team/blog/) - [Colaps at Mensch und Computer 2026](https://colaps.team/2026/09/07/colaps-at-mensch-und-computer-2026/) - We recently wrapped up an exciting and inspiring experience at Mensch und Computer 2026, where we had the opportunity to share our research, exchange ideas, and connect with researchers and practitioners from the Human–Computer Interaction community. Our contributions are the following: Arturo and Lisa presented their work, “Monitoring and Understanding Notebook-Based Learning with Jupyter” as part of - [AI Literacy & Learner Modeling at colaps](https://colaps.team/2026/07/29/ai-literacy-learner-modeling-at-colaps/) - We are excited to open a new PhD position at colaps at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) at the intersection of learner modeling, psychology, philosophy and generative AI. What's the project about? The position is part of MORAL-ALIGN, a DFG-funded project in the context of the DFG Priority Programme 2573 "Rethinking Disinformation" (Re:DIS) exploring how - [colaps at the Festival of Learning 2026](https://colaps.team/2026/07/31/colaps-at-the-festival-of-learning-aied-2026/) - We had a great time at the Festival of Learning / AIED 2026 in Seoul, South Korea presenting our work, meeting old and new friends and colleagues :) You can see a short video about our adventures here: https://youtu.be/7geVdmw_5J8?si=Aj-NSel8Mtn6-mLM This year, the group had 4 main contributions: Kai presented our paper "Beyond one-size-fits-all: personalizing computational - [Congratulations, Cleo Schulten! 🎉](https://colaps.team/2026/05/12/congratulations-cleo-schulten/) - We are delighted to share that Cleo M. Schulten has successfully defended her PhD dissertation, "Learning in Hackathons: Proposing a methodological framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of interest-driven, community-based events", at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universität Duisburg-Essen. The dissertation was awarded magna cum laude, a testament to the quality and rigor of four - [AugMENTOR: Augmented Intelligence for Pedagogically Sustained Training and Education](https://colaps.team/2026/01/22/augmentor/) - In December 2025, we at the Colaps Group at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) successfully concluded the European H2020 AugMENTOR project (https://augmentor-project.eu) AugMENTOR’s project was led by an international consortium of thirteen (13) European Institutions. The Colaps augMENTOR team consisted of Prof. Dr. Irene-angelica Chounta, Bibeg Limbu, and Lisa van der Heyden. AugMENTOR adopts an - [A Year of Connection and Reflection: The colaps Retreat in Saarbrücken](https://colaps.team/2026/01/11/a-year-of-connection-and-reflection-the-colaps-retreat-in-saarbrucken/) - As another year goes by, our research group gathered for a memorable retreat in Saarbrücken—a two-days trip that offered academic exchange and moments of genuine connection.The highlight of our visit was the time spent with colleagues at Saarland University, Tomo Nagashima (LaLa Lab) and Armin Weinberger (EduTech) and members of their groups, sharing our ongoing - [Lecture on "The Effects of Yoga on Sports Performance and Health"](https://colaps.team/2025/12/07/lecture-by-dr-tilak-raj/) - Bibeg Tilak RajThe Effects of Yoga on Sports Performance and Health Lecture by Dr. Tilak Raj (https://www.tiyayoga.org/) Yoga is much more than stretching or relaxation—it’s a complete system that reshapes how we move, think, and recover. Over the past decade, research has started to catch up with what practitioners have long known: yoga improves both the Guest lecture on The Effects of Yoga on Sports Performance and Health - [Lecture on "Measuring Educational Innovation"](https://colaps.team/2025/08/14/lecture-on-measuring-educational-innovation/) - Lecturer: Erna Engelbrecht Evaluating educational innovations is essential for determining their impact and potential for broader implementation. However, current course evaluation practices in higher education tend to emphasize student satisfaction and grades, often reducing evaluations to diagnostic tools. These approaches frequently overlook the perspectives of diverse stakeholders and lack a scholarly foundation due to their Measuring Educational Innovation - [Call for Teaching Assistants](https://colaps.team/2025/07/11/call-for-teaching-assistants/) - Call for Teaching Assistants Course: Introduction to Programming (Grundlegende Programmiertechniken), IP101 We are seeking enthusiastic and dedicated Teaching Assistants (TAs) for our upcoming Introduction to Programming course for the MIPSY bachelor program, scheduled for WiSe 2025/26. This course introduces students to fundamental programming concepts, problem-solving techniques, and basic software development skills, using Python. Responsibilities: Assist in delivering lab - [[Invited talk] Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar: "Context, Data and Inferencing: When Human-AI Meet to Learn"](https://colaps.team/2025/06/12/invited-talk-dr-rwitajit-majumdar-context-data-and-inferencing-when-human-ai-meet-to-learn/) - On Wednesday June 18th at 10:30, we are happy to host Prof. Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar for an invited talk with the title: "Context, Data and Inferencing: When Human-AI Meet to Learn". Dr. Rwitajit Majumdar is an Associate Professor at Kumamoto University, Japan, affiliated with the Research and Educational Institute for Semiconductors and Informatics, as well - [Lecture on VR based Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Long-distance Running- by Fernando Cardenas](https://colaps.team/2025/04/08/lecture-on-vr-based-cognitive-behavioral-intervention-for-long-distance-running-by-fernando-cardenas/) - Lecturer: Fernando Cardenas Fernando presents his study, which investigates the impact of a virtual reality (VR) based mental training on long-distance runners preparing for races. Six participants took part in two different running races: the first without any mental training and the second after completing the virtual reality-based mental training. They used a single-subject - [Lecture on "Introduction to Scien... <80200053>" - by Dr. Jan Schneider](https://colaps.team/2025/02/11/lecture-on-introduction-to-scien/) - Lecturer: dr. Jan Schneider The presentation is an introductory lecture on conducting scientific research in Educational Technologies. Using the analogy of construction and building, this presentation aims to work as a site clearance or site preparation. This involves clearing the land of any existing structures, vegetation, and debris to make way for new construction. It - [Lecture on Attention biases- by Ali Soleymani](https://colaps.team/2025/01/09/attentionbias-by-ali/) - Lecturer: Ali Soleymani Attention biases—systematic tendencies to attend to certain stimuli over others—play a significant role in various psychological conditions, including substance use disorders and eating disorders. In this presentation, Ali will discuss the development and application of a free-viewing multi-stimulus eye-tracking task designed to assess attention biases toward disorder-specific cues. This task has demonstrated - [colaps: Mission and Vision Statement](https://colaps.team/2024/12/09/colaps-mission-and-vision-statement/) - Founded in 2021, the research group "Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes" (COLAPS) is one of the 13 scientific fields at the Department of Human-centered Computing and Cognitive Science (HCCS), Faculty of Computer Science, University of Duisburg-Essen. Our mission is to conduct innovative research on the integration of artificial intelligence and data ## Pages - [](https://colaps.team/) - Welcome to the research group "Computational Methods in Modeling and Analysis of Learning Processes" at the University of Duisburg-Essen. - [Portfolio](https://colaps.team/portfolio/) - Portofolio The mini-projects we showcase here were carried out at colaps as part bachelor’s and master’s theses, praxisprojects or small-scale research. Explainable & Interactive Learning Simulations Student Modeling & Learning Analytics Human-AI & Human-Computer Interaction Collaboration & Hackathon Support Tools - [Portfolio - Explainable & Interactive Learning Simulations](https://colaps.team/portfolio-explainable-interactive-learning-simulations/) - Explainable & Interactive Learning Simulations The mini-projects we showcase here were carried out at colaps as part bachelor’s and master’s theses, praxisprojects or small-scale research. Design and implementation of interactive simulations for data-driven, machine-learning student models Yannick Haußmann designed a web-based simulation for teaching supervised machine learning student models (AFM, PFA, IFM) in intelligent tutoring contexts. The system - [Portfolio - Collaboration & Hackathon Support Tools](https://colaps.team/collaboration-hackathon-support-tools/) - Collaboration and Hackathon Support Tools The mini-projects we showcase here were carried out at colaps as part bachelor’s and master’s theses, praxisprojects or small-scale research. HackEDX (Hackathons as EDucational eXperiences) Cleo developed the HackEDX methodological framework as part of her dissertation at the University of Duisburg-Essen (2021–2025). The framework aims to support hackathon organizers and - [Portfolio - Human-AI & Human-Computer Interaction](https://colaps.team/human-ai-human-computer-interaction/) - Human-AI and Human-Computer Interaction The mini-projects we showcase here were carried out at colaps as part bachelor’s and master’s theses, praxisprojects or small-scale research. Human-AI interaction in the context of a cooperative word-game. For their Bachelor’s thesis, Kimia investigated how users experience a word-guessing game powered by a locally hosted LLM. The motivation is to - [Portfolio - Student Modeling & Learning Analytics](https://colaps.team/portfolio-student-modeling-learning-analytics/) - Student Modeling & Learning Analytics The mini-projects we showcase here were carried out at colaps as part bachelor’s and master’s theses, praxisprojects or small-scale research. A flexible infrastructure for training configurable, machine-learning student models This project presents a dockerized web application that lowers the barrier to Item Response Theory (IRT)-based student modelling by removing the need for programming skills. Users can - [Team](https://colaps.team/people/) - The colaps team Prof. Dr. Irene-Angelica Chounta Head of the group Envelope Dr. Bibeg Limbu Postdoctoral Researcher Envelope Mona Münstermann M.Sc. PhD Student Envelope Kaimao ShengM.Sc. PhD Student Envelope Yonghao Chen B.Sc. Research Assistant Sinan Demirtas Research Assistant Marleen Skroch Administrative Support Envelope Friends and External Collaborators Yasin Esiri M.Sc. Alumni 2025 Cleo Schulten PhD - [Projects](https://colaps.team/projects/) - Read more Read more Read more Funded Projects The aim of CoCreate is to design and deliver innovative learning designs for Higher Education that promote creativity and entrepreneurship. We explore the potential of hackathons for a) facilitating hands-on problem-based and collaborative learning in Higher Education courses; b) scaffolding students in acquiring critical skills for innovation - [Theses](https://colaps.team/theses/) - Bachelor and Master Thesis You can find all information about theses in the following Moodle course: https://lehre.moodle.uni-due.de/course/view.php?id=4695 . There, you will find tendered research topics for Master’s and Bachelor’s theses, and the information on how to apply for them or propose your own topic. Topics for Bachelor Theses and Master Theses are announced in regular intervals throughout the - [Publications](https://colaps.team/publications/) - Publications 2026 Limbu, B. et al. (2026). Eliciting User Requirements for AI-Enhanced Learning Environments Using a Participatory Approach. In: Durães, D., Caron, AC., Karkalas, S., Nakayama, M., Lancia, L., Kubincová, Z. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshops – 15th International Conference. MIS4TEL 2025. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1799. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-15743-0_5 - [LAPraxis-IDEAL](https://colaps.team/lapraxis-ideal/) - Hands-On with Learning AnalyticsUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Didaktik IDEAL 2025 This interactive session on practical Learning Analytics is offered as part of the new certificate program Didaktik Ideal at the University of Duisburg-Essen.The session will last three hours and the working language will be English.We will use this webpage to share materials with participants before, during - [WS 25/26](https://colaps.team/courses/wintersemester-202526/) - Winter Semester 2025/26 This is an introductory course to programming using a language called Python. Learn how to read and write code as well as how to test and “debug” it. Designed for students with and without prior programming experience who’d like to learn Python specifically. Learn about functions, arguments, and return values (oh my!); - [SS 25](https://colaps.team/courses/summersemester-25/) - Summer Semester 2025 Computers and ‘machine-intelligence’ are frequently discussed as the means for addressing today’s critical educational challenges: learning remotely, learning at one’s own pace, learning according to one’s needs and background, providing quality education to all and for all. In this course, we welcome all master-level students with technical or non-technical backgrounds. Through the - [WS 24/25](https://colaps.team/courses/wintersemester-202425/) - Winter Semester 2024/25 Hackathons are time-bounded events (typically 1-3 days) with large participation, in which (small) groups carry out projects which they conceptualize, design, prototype, or implement. “Learning” is often cited as one reason to organize or participate in Hackathons. However, we also know that it is necessary to plan for learning to ensure learning - [SS 24](https://colaps.team/courses/summersemester-2024/) - Summer Semester 2024 Computers and ‘machine-intelligence’ are frequently discussed as the means for addressing today’s critical educational challenges: learning remotely, learning at one’s own pace, learning according to one’s needs and background, providing quality education to all and for all. In this course, we welcome all master-level students with technical or non-technical backgrounds. Through the - [WS 23/24](https://colaps.team/courses/wintersemester-202324/) - Winter Semester 2023/24 Deliberate practice is a framework of expertise development or mastery which posits that in order to achieve superior performance in a task practice must be structured and supplemented with feedback. Both of these criteria have historically relied on expert mentor/s, such as in cases of any elite sports athlete. However, such facilities - [SS 23](https://colaps.team/courses/summersemester-2023/) - Summer Semester 2023 Computers and ‘machine-intelligence’ are frequently discussed as the means for addressing today’s critical educational challenges: learning remotely, learning at one’s own pace, learning according to one’s needs and background, providing quality education to all and for all. In this course, we welcome all master-level students with technical or non-technical backgrounds. Through the - [Research](https://colaps.team/research/) - Research In colaps, we focus on studying and modeling user activities and interactions in various learning contexts. In our research, we employ artificial intelligence, machine-learning, and data-mining approaches to model students’ knowledge state and to assess students’ performance. For example, we are interested in exploring the relationship between response times and student performance with the aim - [Talk Lehre 2025 RWTH](https://colaps.team/talk-lehre-2025-rwth/) - Human-Centered Design Approaches for Using Artificial Intelligence to Support Teaching and Learning – Talk Lehre 2025 RWTH University of Duisburg-Essen This year, the colaps research group participates in the event Talk Lehre 2025: AI in Teaching and Learning at RWTH Aachen University. The event aims to bring together faculty and students to explore the current - [Teaching](https://colaps.team/teaching/) - Teaching For master-level students, we offer the course “Intelligent Learning Environments” (ILE) that covers topics on intelligent tutoring systems, interactive and technology-enhanced learning and teaching environments and online learning platforms. We also offer Praxis projects and Research Seminars on topics related to Learning Informatics, Educational Technologies, and AIED. Additionally, we offer research projects for Bachelor and Master theses for - [Impressum](https://colaps.team/impressum/) - ImpressumAccording to § 5 TMGThe colaps research group is represented by Irene-Angelica Chounta.Irene-Angelica ChountaLotharstraße 6547057 DuisburgContact:Phone: +49 203 379 1450E-Mail: iachounta@gmail.comResponsible for the content according to Section 55 Paragraph 2 RStV:Irene-Angelica ChountaLotharstraße 6547057 DuisburgDisclaimerLiability for content The content of our website were created with the greatest care. However, we cannot guarantee that the content is correct, - [Courses](https://colaps.team/courses/) - Wintersemester 2023/24 Deliberate practice is a framework of expertise development or mastery which posits that in order to achieve superior performance in a task practice must be structured and supplemented with feedback. Both of these criteria have historically relied on expert mentor/s, such as in cases of any elite sports athlete. However, such facilities are - [Wintersemester 202324](https://colaps.team/wintersemester-202324/) - Wintersemester 2023/24 Deliberate practice is a framework of expertise development or mastery which posits that in order to achieve superior performance in a task practice must be structured and supplemented with feedback. Both of these criteria have historically relied on expert mentor/s, such as in cases of any elite sports athlete. 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