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Psychology meets computer science! Of danceable audio books and "thorny opportunities"

3 March 2025

How does one's own spontaneous mental state influence music listening behaviour? Computer science and psychology students came together in this interdisciplinary project seminar to learn about data collection and execution from scratch using Spotify and smartwatches with Python and machine learning. The goal: to hack music taste for mental health! Not only did they learn valuable practical knowledge for their future careers - they also learnt that setbacks and overcoming hurdles are simply part of working with complex data.

Psychology meets computer science! Of danceable audio books and "thorny opportunities"

Shownotes

Dr Larissa Gebken and Dr Matthias Pillny, together with Habiba Schiller, Junbo Huang and Tibebu Tesfaye Biru, developed the interdisciplinary teaching project ‘Psychology meets computer science - from the collection to the analysis of complex data’ and successfully implemented it in 2023 and 2024. The teaching project was funded by the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) and took place at both the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg.

The aim was to introduce students of psychology and computer science to the practical, realistic and career-preparatory collection and analysis of complex data.

Shownotes:

Funding period: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2024

Funding website: Psychology meets computer science - from the collection to the analysis of complex data and in the course catalogue of the UHH, winter semester 23/24: Course description PTI

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Concept & production: Julia Pawlowski, Sven Rehder, Simon Steinhauser
Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab, February 2024/25

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