Master Thesis Topic

My name is David Lindel=F6f and I have done my PhD on the topic of building automation, more specifically on the topic of optimizing visual comfort by analyzing the users' behaviour.

I encourage you to pursue this academic trail, as there is still a lot to figure out in this field. We do not really understand very well the mechanisms of visual and/or thermal comfort and there's a lot of research going on there.

I did my thesis at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory

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I would focus on user interfaces, UI simplicity, and research on how to get people to live "naturally" with HA. The survival of HA depends mostly on this and not on what it can do. If people have to explain how to turn on a light to the next buyer of their home, then there is a huge problem in the HA industry. There are many areas where human interaction can be studied: voice, keypads, programming, ease of ownership, standardization, etc.

And installation. Generally it takes a trained technician to set your up HA. Until the average user can do it HA will be a niche market for retrofit.

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Thank you very much for the replies - these sounds like great and fun areas to research. Our second semester is from July to December, where we have an subject "Introduction to Research" - in this subject I can start doing some research regarding the areas you mentioned previously. Normally we formulate our Master Thesis proposal from the output of this subject.

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On the user setup front, you should ask yourself why Microsoft appeared to be looking at the HA market and then got cold feet. It strongly suggests that they could not find a way of dumbing down the installation to the point where they could sell millions.