Alexander Steinmaurer

OnExp is a web-based tool to create and evaluate psycho-linguistic epxeriments. It consists out of a CMS where experimenters can upload and administrate the experiments and participants can choose an experiment out of a list. The second part is the software itself. It is a python-based tool that parses and evaluates experiments. It is highly adaptive and each experimenter can define an own experiment. Therefore little knowledge about HTML is necessary. It is also possible to define customized functions to make the experiment as adaptive as possible. OnExp also specify the structure of the experiment but does not restrict the user. With different configuration files it is possible to define the experiment, the stages, the items, ...

Python | Flask Framework | Gunicorn | PHP7 | MySQL | HTML5 | CSS3 | UserSpice | CouchDB

http://onexp.uni-graz.at/onexp

Status: Finished

Project duration: 02/2017 - 07/2020

Jeremiah the Farmer seems a little dispersed. Somehow his senses go crazy. His wife wants to support him and cooks a mushroom soup in expectation this will broaden his perception and reunite his senses. So his psychedelic journey begins by dissolving his ego with all of its sensory distortions. On his travels through abstract, dreamlike sense of "expanded consciousness" his brains split apart, his senses are separated, his motor skills divided into their individual actions. Now he can experience all inputs and all outputs to his brain by themselves to find their strengths and weaknesses and to repair and grow his brain cells. He also learns how life is possible without a sense by improving the strengths of the other senses. Using the right combination of senses and motions he is able to solve his daily routines without any problems. Understanding the strengths and the importance of communication of these he learns that people without the ability to use one of their senses can easily be helped by giving the right help. Not only did openness generally rise during his experience, but also traits like imagination, creativity and aesthetic appreciation, appreciation of life and the love to his surroundings greatly improved. The co-op Android video game was developed five motivated students from Graz University of Technology and Westminster University (UK) in an exchange. The aim of the game is to make aware of the disabilities of blind and deaf people and the importance of communication to solve the daily routine.

Unity | C# | UNet | Blender2.7 | 3ds Max

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Status: Finished

Project start: 02/2019 - 06/2019

This web-based app is a tool for companies to record and manage the work time of the employees. The tool is connected to the ERP-system E-Projekt Software over a web-api so all current running commissions and projects can be transmitted to the app. The employees can record there working hours on the tool and the records are sent over the api back to the ERP-system. The administrators of the software can manage the tool over a web-interface where they can add new phones, customers, users and salary types.

Cordova | HTML5 | CSS3 | JavaScript | JQuery | PHP | MySQL | JSON | XML

Status: Finished

Duration: 2016

epMobile is a mobile tool that supports mainly construction workers and materials management on their tasks. The management can send orders via a web api to the workers. In this way they receive all important information regarding the order (contact person, material, calculation). The tool can also be used to let the customer sign the order. There is also a option to make images of the construction area and calculculate the used material. All products are stored in a quite huge database that all customers can access. They are also able to create own items and store them in an user-related database. All the data is received from the software E-Projekt over a rest api. In this way the materials management is able to see all relevant information and can transfer everything to an invoice. The api is also connected to a Backend where all administration work can be done. It is used to create new users, import DATANORM, get server statistics, ...

ReactName | Node.JS | MongoDB | JSON | REST | HTML5 | CSS3 | MySQL

Status: Finished

Duration: 2018-2019

The mobile video game sCool was developed initially in a research collaboration between Graz University of Technology (Austria) and Westminister University (UK). It is a game-based learning approach covering computational skills like algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition. The game should encourage students working on these topics in a gameful way. The game consists of two different game types: a concept-learning and a practical part. In the concept-learning part different conepts like loops, conditions, objects, etc. are explored. The practical tasks help to apply and repeat these concepts to practice them. To receive an motivating game envionment a narrative was created that links both parts of the game. The students have a mission were they have the goal to help a space crew to escape from a foreign planet. Therefore, they do some coding in the Python programming language. The tool is also extended by a web application for educators to manage courses and make data evaluation.

The existing game was improved and extended in the scope of my Master's Thesis. A pedagogical concept was developed to create a highly engaging environment for students to learn computational skills. Based on this research various experiments and studies have been conducted. Current research (involving my Thesis) can be downloaded in the Research section.

C# | Unity | Blender2.7 | ASP.NET MVC | Azure | REST API

Status: Finished

Duration: 2018-2019

https://steinmaurer.cc/sCool

Q?A! is a web-based tool for lecturers and students. It should support both in communication with each other. If students have some questions but are afraid of asking them they can use the tool. It is possible to ask questions in an anonymous way. The lecturer can see the question and answer it during class or afterwards.
The idea is very simple: The lecturer shares a link and the students can ask questions. It is possible to create channels with an overall topic (for example web programming) and create certain sub channels (python).

PHP 7 | HTML5 | CSS3 | Bootstrap 4 | RedBeanPHP

https://äö.eu/qa/

https://gitlab.com/a.steinmaurer/qatool

Status: Finished

Duration: 02/2020

e-zeit is a comprehensive time recording system for business customers. It consists of an application and a REST API. With this application employees can create time records, book on projects, manage their records and keep track of their working time. The API provides an interface to ERP systems which gives the service high flexibility.

Status: Finished

Duration: 03/2023

SMAwT

The Social Media Awareness Training (SMAwT) was developed as a research project at Graz University of Technology with collaborators from the University of Frankfurt. Within an interdisciplinary team the platform was developed as a training for secondary school students. SMAwT is based on the Dagstuhl Triangle which is an approach to bring digital phenomena into the context of students' daily lives. The tool is a client-based web application and includes elements of gamification to engage students.

SMAwT