Honours and Masters project

Project description

This research project aims to explore how researchers are investigating various epistemic emotions that arise within educational contexts. Through a combination of literature review, citation and bibliometric analysis, this project will uncover trends in the field and may guide future directions. The outcome of this research is expected to be a peer-reviewed publication that may provide a valuable addition to your CV.

Project Description: The project is focused on developing game-based learning environments where the users’ trace or interaction data could be collected. The game-based environment needs to be designed to allow the users to navigate and explore at their own pace. Using the environment, the participants can practice their technical/professional skills from various options.

The world’s energy markets are transforming, and more renewable energy is integrated into the electric energy market. The intermittent renewable supply leads to unexpected demand-supply mismatches and results in highly fluctuating energy prices. Energy arbitrage aims to strategically operate energy devices to leverage the temporal price spread to smooth out the price differences in the market, which also generates some revenue.

Deepfakes detection deals with machine learning methods, which detect if an image/video/audio sample is manipulated with a generative AI software. In recent years, deepfakes have been increasingly used for malicious purposes, including financial fraud, misinformation campaigns, identity theft, and cyber harassment. The ability to generate highly realistic synthetic content poses a serious threat to digital security, privacy, and trust in media. This project will develop methods for detecting deepfakes.

Is the user paying attention? Is the content engaging enough?

The degree of concentration, enthusiasm, optimism, and passion displayed by individual(s) while interacting with a machine is referred to as ‘user engagement’. Engagement is a positive psychological state characterized by active behavioral participation, positive emotional experiences, and intense cognitive focus. Being able to detect engagement and/or attention has wide applications in consumer commerce, smart cars, augmented reality etc. 

Is the user paying attention? Is the content engaging enough?

The degree of concentration, enthusiasm, optimism, and passion displayed by individual(s) while interacting with a machine is referred to as ‘user engagement’. Engagement is a positive psychological state characterized by active behavioral participation, positive emotional experiences, and intense cognitive focus. Being able to detect engagement and/or attention has wide applications in consumer commerce, smart cars, augmented reality etc. 

Classical propositional logic (CPL) captures our basic understanding of the linguistic connectives “and”, “or” and “not”. It also provides a very good basis for digital circuits. But it does not account for more sophisticated linguistic notions such as “always”, “possibly”, “believed” or “knows”. Philosophers therefore invented many different non-classical logics which extend CPL with further operators for these notions.

Classical propositional logic (CPL) captures our basic understanding of the linguistic connectives “and”, “or” and “not”. It also provides a very good basis for digital circuits. But it does not account for more sophisticated linguistic notions such as “always”, “possibly”, “believed” or “knows”. Philosophers therefore invented many different non-classical logics which extend CPL with further operators for these notions.

Goal recognition is defined as the problem of determining an agent’s intent from observations of its behaviour. Current research in goal recognition has focused on observing agents that are trying to achieve their goals in a rational manner. Other research has focused on observing agents that are deliberately trying to trick an observer into believing they are pursuing alternative goals to the ones they are actually pursuing. However there is also a need to recognise when a behaviour is suspicious, regardless of the goal that is being tried to be achieved.

This is a Winter Student Research Internship ONLY not an honours or minor thesis project at this time.

Please apply here if you are interested in the role before the deadline: 

https://www.monash.edu/study/fees-scholarships/scholarships/summer-winter

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