| Aims | Objectives | Methods | Outcomes | Outputs |
| To have a closer look on the current status of awareness of younger people towards democracy and develop a tool that improves the current state towards more understanding of democratic values. After the research phase it is planned to develop a user-centered tool that provides information and enhances the understanding of democracy among young or soon-to-be-voters in austria. | 1. Get a good overview of all the research that is already done and available. 2. Analyze the current situation and define the problem 3. Develop and design a tool that helps solving the problem. 4. Analyze and test the functionality of the developed tool to be able to improve the thesis through an iterative process. | Classic literature research, build up focus groups, eventually online testings/surveys, qualitative interviews in schools or with sociologists or politicians, marketing experts | The research should lead to a better understanding of the situation and to undermine the idea of this thesis. I’d like to have a closer look onto teenager behaviours when it comes to politics or democratic attitudes. (not only in big scale) | The research output should be the detailed definition of a problem in order to be able to start a design process of a tool that will solve or works on the solution of that problem. |
