If you would like to join the seminar, please contact the local administrator at your university before the official start date. Before joining a team, please complete the pre-work listed below, and present your results in the admission block course listed below.
You can join any of the projects which will be listed on the Projects page.
Before joining a project team, you will have to work through the Happimetrics book manuscript, to familiarize yourself with the algorithms and methods used in this seminar, and do the pre-work listed below.
Read the "happimetrics" manuscript, and pick a chapter for a short 10-minute powerpoint presentation in the introduction workshop. Additional slides are here. (sign up for a topic here)
Do an analysis project using an LLM as the co-pilot to predict personality from text, described here. Also prepare to present these results as a powerpoint in 5 minutes in the block course together with your personality results from (3) below.
Complete a personality profile analysis on socialcompass.ai comparing the results of filling out the personality, Schwartz ethics, and Dospert risk taking surveys with the AI generated profile of the card game. You can compare that with your values computed from your emotional response using perceptiface.
Once you have completed the pre-work, register for a presentation at the admission block workshop listed below. Only after successfully having completed the admission workshop, will you be able to join a team.
At the admission workshop (beginning of October), a brief overview of the seminar will be given, and you will have to present the results of your hiddenbiosignals Python analysis and virtual mirror in 5 minutes on a few Powerpoint slides, as well as the chosen Happimetrics section.
zoom info session October 10, 3pm CET. (zoom recording)
Block course (on site for Cologne, at Seminarraum 401, Pohligstraße 1, 50969 Köln-Zollstock, Gebäude 411 Pohlighaus OG 4, virtual by zoom for Bamberg and HSLU students)
October 15, 2025, 10 am to 5 pm CET (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU)
October 16, 2025, 10 am to 3pm CET (Bamberg, Cologne, HSLU)
Virtual status meetings are roughly bi-weekly, Thursdays 14-16:00 CET
1. Thu, 16 Oct – Kick-off (integrated in block course)
2. Thu, 23 Oct (zoom recording)
3. Thu, 6 Nov (zoom recording)
4. Thu, 20 Nov (virtual mirror) (zoom recording)
5. Thu, 11 Dec (zoom recording)
6. Thu, 8 Jan 2026
7. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 final presentation
February 20, 2026 23:59 final paper due