Competence area human-centred digitality
All fields of our lives are significantly shaped by digitalisation - which makes it all the more urgent to see it as a design task. Human-centred digitality is a concept that places people and their social practices at the centre of digital transformation and technology development. This goes beyond user-friendliness and user experience (UX) and concerns the empowerment of the individual in terms of social and ethical responsibility, sustainability and the avoidance of digital overload. In order to research these aspects both from a scientific perspective and to implement and validate them in practice, we deal with the development, design and evaluation of socio-technical and intelligent systems - always with a focus on the impact on people and society. To this end, we combine practical perspectives with expertise from the subject areas of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics.
Subject areas
This is an excerpt of current topics that are continuously expanded and updated.
- Digital Twin / Immersion
- Digital assistance in education
- Reflective use of digitality in education
- Human-centred development of artificial intelligence
- Explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence (Explainable AI, XAI)
- Value-sensitive AI design
- Human-centred technology/interaction design
- Co-construction of skills and content
- Collaboration & New Work
- Social media/social computing
- Digital identity & responsibility
Fields of application
Automotive
Education
Health promotion
Medicine
Prevention
Robotics
Social Media
Goals and visions
Our aim is to empower and enable individuals to assume both social and ethical responsibility in the digital world. Sustainability and the avoidance of digital overload are at the forefront of this. We are committed to designing technologies in such a way that they support people in their personal and social development without overburdening them.
We also endeavour to develop, design and evaluate socio-technical and intelligent systems that not only enable technological progress, but also take into account the impact on individuals and society. Our approach sponsors a balanced and responsible integration of technology that promotes the well-being of users and the common good.
Research questions and tasks
- How can we support work and learning processes through immersive technologies and increase participation?
- What competences do AI systems need to enable responsible use?
- What role do explanations play in empowering people in their decisions?
- How can a paradigm shift in the design of technology towards user involvement be achieved?
- Which features and functions of AI systems are trusted by people?
- How can we improve science communication in the field of AI?
- How does the term 'digitality' differ from 'AI' and 'digitalisation'?
Director
> Key research area Transformation and Education
Professor
Office: TP6.2.304
Phone: +49 5251 60-5717
E-mail: katharina.rohlfing@uni-paderborn.de
Manager
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Coordinator - PostDoc - R&D Manager - Human-Centered Digitality
Office: ZM2.A.03.05
Phone: +49 5251 60-6826
E-mail: enes.yigitbas@uni-paderborn.de
University lecturers involved
> Wirtschaftspädagogik und Evaluationsforschung
Professor - Lehrstuhlinhaber
Office: Q1.441
Phone: +49 5251 60-2367
E-mail: marc.beutner@uni-paderborn.de
> Faculty of Business Administration and Economics > Business Administration, esp. Marketing and Value Creation
Professor
Office: Q3.122
Phone: +49 5251 60-4626
E-mail: eva.boehm@uni-paderborn.de
> Paderborn University
Chairwoman - Professor - Ethics committee Paderborn University
> Paderborn University
Vice President - Professor - Knowledge- and Technologytransfer
Office: Q3.122
Phone: +49 5251 60-2090
E-mail: rene.fahr@uni-paderborn.de
> Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen
Professor - Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen
Office: H7.204
Phone: +49 5251 60-4324
E-mail: beate.flath@uni-paderborn.de
> Communications Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institute
Head - Professor - Head of Department of Communications Engineering
Office: P7.2.05.3
Phone: +49 5251 60-3626
E-mail: haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de
> Department 5: Wirtschaftspädagogik
Speaker - Professor - Department Head
Office: Q1.316
Phone: +49 5251 60-5437
E-mail: karina.kiepe@uni-paderborn.de
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Professor
Office: Q3.149
Phone: +49 5251 60-5533
Phone: (+49) 5251 60-5531
E-mail: dennis.kundisch@wiwi.uni-paderborn.de
Professor
Office: E2.321
Phone: +49 5251 60-3275
E-mail: tobias.matzner@uni-paderborn.de
Office: E2.108
Phone: +49 5251 60-3723
E-mail: dm@uni-paderborn.de
Office: Q4.113
Phone: +49 5251 60-3394
E-mail: s.mueller@uni-paderborn.de
> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)
Manager - Professor - Managing Director, Senior Researcher
Office: ZM2.A.03.74
Phone: +49 5251 60-6820
E-mail: sauer@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: sauer@sicp.de
> Key research area Transformation and Education
Professor
Office: H4.320
Phone: +49 5251 60-2901
E-mail: niclas.schaper@uni-paderborn.de
Professor
Office: Q3.334
Phone: +49 5251 60-2929
Phone: 05251602930
E-mail: martin.schneider@uni-paderborn.de
> Signal & System Theory (SST)
Head - Professor
Office: P1.7.01.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-2213
E-mail: peter.schreier@sst.uni-paderborn.de
> Key research area Transformation and Education
Professor
Office: F2.116
Phone: +49 5251 60-6343
E-mail: carsten.schulte@uni-paderborn.de
> Discrete Mathematics/Graph Theory
Head - Professor
Office: F2.224
Phone: +49 5251 60-6681
E-mail: es@uni-paderborn.de
> Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Dean of Students - Professor
Office: P1.6.09.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-3004
E-mail: eim-studiendekan@lists.uni-paderborn.de
Professor
Office: Q3.301
Phone: +49 5251 60-2080
E-mail: kirsten.thommes@uni-paderborn.de
> Machine Learning and Optimisation
Head - Professor
Office: FU.231
Phone: +49 5251 60-6309
Phone: +49 1606675582
E-mail: heike.trautmann@uni-paderborn.de
> Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Social Computing
Head - Professor
Office: Q2.448
Phone: +49 5251 60-4180
E-mail: matthias.trier@uni-paderborn.de