Computer-based motive assessment
Internally funded project
Start date : 01.01.2016
Project details
Scientific Abstract
The standard method of measuring motives -- coding imaginative stories for motivational themes -- places a heavy burden on researchers in terms of the time and the personnel invested in this task. We collaborate with colleagues from lingusitics and computer science on the development of computer-based, automated procedures for assessing implicit motivational needs in written text. To this purpose, we use standard psycholinguistic procedures such as the Lingusitic Inquiry and Word Count software as well as sophisticated pattern recognition approaches.
Involved:
Oliver Schultheiss
Project Leader
Andreas Maier
Project Member
Stephanie Evert
Project Member
Dominik Özbe-Schönfeld
Project Member
Contributing FAU Organisations:
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Psychologie (Motivation, Emotion und Lernen)
Lehrstuhl für Korpus- und Computerlinguistik
Lehrstuhl für Informatik 5 (Mustererkennung)
