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What began as a pilot study as part of the compulsory seminar ‘Scientific Research Methods’ on the Master’s programme in Intelligent Interactive Systems has now led to a successful academic publication.

During the seminar, Master’s students developed an initial pilot study, carried it out and prepared the results for academic publication. The findings were initially submitted as a conference paper and published as a preprint. However, the students were not discouraged by an initial rejection. Instead, they used the feedback constructively, expanded the study to include a larger number of participants and comprehensively revised the article. The improved paper was subsequently submitted to the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After several rounds of peer review, the study was finally published – a remarkable achievement that impressively demonstrates scientific perseverance, teamwork and commitment (link to the publication).

We warmly congratulate Hakki Egemen Gülpinar and Anastasiia Skryzhadlovska on this publication and are delighted to see this outstanding example of how high-quality research papers can emerge from teaching modules. We wish them every success in their future research and careers, and look forward to many more exciting scientific achievements. The research was supervised through a collaboration between the Social Cognitive Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience research groups, supported by the Faculty of Technology.