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Predicting attitudes and behavior concerning living materials: Develop software and analyses methods to apply cognitive affective maps

Description of the project:
The Cluster of Excellence livMatS develops completely novel, bioinspired materials systems that adapt autonomously to various environments and harvest clean energy from their surroundings. The intention of these purely technical – yet in a behavioral sense quasi-living – materials systems is to meet the demands of humans with regard to pioneering environmental and energy technologies. The societal relevance of autonomous systems and their sustainability will thus play an important role in their development. The research program of livMatS is characterized by highly interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers from a broad range of fields including engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, psychology, the humanities, and sustainability sciences. Evaluations and behavioral decisions constitute essential, complex cognitive and affective psychological processes with many determining factors. Consequently, we expect a multitude of factors to have an impact on the acceptance of living materials systems. We will apply multi-method approaches to develop and validate computational models predicting acceptance of living materials systems. Our focus is on the development of new approaches to acceptance research, especially towards the prediction of acceptance of technical systems which do not exist yet. In this project, we aim to advance “Cognitive Affective Maps” (CAMs), a novel approach to predict acceptance based on cognitive and affective factors. In detail, we will first create a suitable software package in order to use CAMs for data collection. Second, we will scrutinize different ways for data aggregation of large samples of participants and we will implement these options in the software package. Third, we will validate CAMs assessing a coherent cohort (students).

contact person: Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel
Email: kiesel@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
Runtime:
Start of project: 01.04.2019
End of project: 31.03.2022
Project Management:
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Kiesel, A., Stumpf, M.
Institut für Psychologie
Abteilung für Allgemeine Psychologie
Engelbergerstr. 41
79106 Freiburg i. Br.
Germany

Phone: 0761 203 2489
Fax: 0761 203 2490
Email: sekr.allgpsy@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de
http://www.psychologie.uni-freiburg.de/einrichtungen/AllgemeinePsychologie/
Actual Research Report
Financing:
  • DFG EXC 2193, DFG