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I am someone that likes to dabble and try things. And sometimes it just goes unexpectedly well.As I finally came around to the idea of starting blog posts about stuff I like to work on I am designating this space for my hobby projects and other interesting titbits I encounter when working.I have always enjoyed learning (and educating others) with all the weird little kinks and intricacies programming throws at you all the time. Maybe I can shed some light on these weirdnesses or maybe you are just here to have a snoop around, don't let me stop you.

Me (briefly)

I'm a software engineer, orginally from Germany and now living and working in the UK. As of right now I am employed at Simply Do Ideas.I am currently working on my research towards a PhD at Cardiff University (started in 2019). I have always been fascinated with the psychology surrounding the use of technology and being able to research Human Computer Interaction to this extent is a great experience.

Utilising the co-occurrence of user interface interactions as a risk indicator for smartphone addiction

I just published a substantial paper on the viability of using smartphone interactions for addiction evaluation in Elsevier‘s Pervasive and Mobile Computing. The study highlights a novel methodology to transform and analyse large amounts of interaction events to infer a user’s level of smartphone addiction. This is a step forward from using commonly used metrics such as pure screen on time which can misrepresent the cognitive complexities and dependencies of human behaviour.

August 13th, 2022

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Resolving tree shake issues with MUI icons and Parcel 2 for Node builds

This website is built using MUI and bundled using Parcel. Parcel 2 enables a feature called "scope hoisting" by default. This includes tree shaking capabilities which in theory should resolve imports from their main package only if they are actually used, drastically reducing bundle size.