PhD Thesis defended

Today, I successfully defended my PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) thesis “Integrating Psychoinformatics with Ubiquitous Social Networking Through Advanced Mobile-Sensing Concepts and Applications” and was graded with distinction (summa cum laude)! I am grateful for the committee: Prof. Dr. Axel Küpper, Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Pryss, Prof. Dr. Jöran Beel, and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Möller.

Frequency and duration of daily smartphone usage in relation to personality traits

We investigated associations between personality traits and smartphone usage in daily life. 526 participants (mean age 34.57 years, SD = 12.85, 21% female) used TYDR (Track Your Daily Routine) for 48 days, on average (SD = 63.2, range 2 to 304). The Big Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2) was used to measure personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, … Read more