Measuring Blockchain Proficiency

Understanding how proficient study participants are with a specific technology is a critical piece of information to interpret user studies in Human Computer Interaction. Measuring how the proficiency of people at scale over time would allow to track technology adoption within a population over time.

The goal of this thesis is to develop a measurement instrument to reliably determine the proficiency level of a person with regards to a technology – here specifically blockchain. What are sound definitions of novices to experts? What are relevant items with regards to blockchain? How reliable and valid is the developed measurement instruments?

Tasks

• Review of related literature

• Item Development

• Scale Development

• Scale Evaluation

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest and Experience in Questionnaire/ Scale Development and Evaluation

• Interest in technologies and how they are used

• Independent thinking and creative problem solving

• Knowledge in the area of human computer interaction (optional)

• Interest in crypto currencies (optional)

Related Work

• https://think.ing.com/reports/cracking-the-code-on-cryptocurrency/

• https://doi.org/10.1177/0270467604264992

• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1019637632584

• https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00149/full

• https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisa-for-development/pisafordevelopment2018technicalreport/PISA-D%20TR%20Chapter%2015%20-%20Proficiency%20Scale%20Construction%20-%20final.pdf

• https://ati-scale.org/

• https://www.jstor.org/stable/2786852?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6041499/