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How are digital technologies changing our everyday lives? What opportunities – but also risks – does the digital world bring for us as consumers? The Institut für Verbraucherinformatik (IVI) is investigating precisely these questions. At the ‘Research Day’ at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, the IVI provided exciting insights into its work. For the seventh…
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We are thrilled to announce that our paper ‘What makes XR Dark?’ will be presented at ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama! In the study, we analysed potential dark patterns in Extended Reality (XR) based on expert workshops. The paper was written by Veronika Krauß during her stay in Michael Nebeling’s research lab at the University…
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At the beginning of the year, Jenny Berkholz had the opportunity to present the research paper “Playing with Privacy: Exploring the Social Construction of Privacy Norms Through a Card Game” at the renowned ACM GROUP Conference as part of the third-party funded project BeDeNUTZ. This international conference, which focuses on the interdisciplinary study of group…
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We are delighted that our textbook ‘Verbraucherinformatik – Grundlagen und Anwendungsfelder der digitalen Konsumgesellschaft’ was published by Springer Verlag a few days ago. The book is published under an open access licence (CC-BY 4.0 International) and can be downloaded free of charge here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-68706-2 The book provides a comprehensive overview of the digital consumer landscape…
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We have published a new research paper: “Explainable product backorder prediction exploiting CNN: Introducing explainable models in businesses”, by Md Shajalal, Alexander Boden & Gunnar Stevens. Abstract: Due to expected positive impacts on business, the application of artificial intelligence has been widely increased. The decision-making procedures of those models are often complex and not easily…
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On June 27, the workshop “Designing Appropriate Trust in Human-AI Interactions” was organized at ECSCW2022 in the beautiful city of Coimbra, Portugal. During this workshop, participants engaged in various activities to discuss the most controversial contexts in human-AI trust and future possibilities (read more about the workshop here: https://websites.fraunhofer.de/trust-in-human-ai-interaction/). The highlight of the workshop was…
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The second training event of the EU Horizon 2020 project GECKO, jointly organised by the project beneficiaries Fraunhofer FIT and the University of Siegen, takes place from 20 to 22 June 2022 at the Kranz Parkhotel in Siegburg. For the first time, the 15 international young scientists and their supervisors will come together in person…
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From 14-16 June 2022, the 8th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability was held at University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held in a hybrid format in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and virtually. Lukas Böhm presented the paper “Designing a Mobility Intelligence System for Decision-making with Shared Mobility Data”.…
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