Process Guide for Students for Interdisciplinary Work in Computer Science/Informatics: Instructions Manual - Handbuch fr Studierende

The process of doing an academic work, whether a mini-project, diploma thesis, master's thesis or PhD thesis, requires systematic knowledge and skills in order to answer the following questions: "How do I find a topic?", "How do I obtain funding money?", "How do I write a project proposal?", "How is the organisatoric workflow?", "How do I search Literature systematically?", "Why should I read patents?", "How can I organize my references?", "Why English as a working language?", "What is the formal structure of a thesis like?", "What is the classical hypothetic-deductive research process?", "Which research methods could I use?", "How will my posters, my presentations and my written work be graded?", "How do I contribute to a conference?", "How do I contribute to an archival Journal?". These questions are discussed on the basis of the subjects Engineering (Computer Science/Informatics) and Natural Sciences (Psychology) and Business (Software Engineering/Business), which can be bridged by the subject "Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering (HCI&UE). Since science is trans-cultural, inter-subjective and reproductive; these fundamentals can be further applied to almost any subject. Die Durchführung einer akademischen Arbeit, ob Mini-Projekt, Diplomarbeit, Masterarbeit oder Doktorarbeit erfordert systematische Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten um folgende Fragen zu beantworten: "Wie finde ich ein Thema?", "Wie komme ich zu Förderungen?", "Wie verfasse ich einen Projektantrag?", "Wie läuft eine Arbeit organisatorisch ab?", "Wie führe ich eine systematische Literatursuche durch?", "Warum sollte ich Patente lesen?", Wie kann ich meine Literatur verwalten?", "Warum Englisch als Arbeitssprache?", "Wie ist der formale Aufbau einer Arbeit?", "Wie läuft der klassische Forschungsprozess ab?", "Welche Forschungsmethoden gibt es?", "Wie werden meine Poster, Vorträge und schriftlichen Arbeiten beurteilt?", "Wie verfasse ich einen Konferenzbeitrag?", "Wie verfasse ich einen Be

Head of the Research Unit Human-Computer Interaction (hci4all.at), Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University Graz; Assoc. Prof. for Informatics at the Institute of Information Systems and Computer Media, Faculty of Computer Science and Lecturer at the Institute of Genomics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Electrical and Information Engineering, Graz University of Technology; Andreas was Visiting Professor in Berlin, Innsbruck, Vienna, London and Aachen. Since 1999 participation in leading positions in 30+ multinational research and development projects with a budget of 3+ MEUR; 300+ publications, 2600+ citations, h index = 25, g Index = 56, (08/2012). Motto: Science is to test ideas - Engineering is to put these ideas into practice.