Category: Blog
How can interactive AI help us write emails?
In this project, we built a prototype AI email editor with text generation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and asked 156 people to write emails with it. We compared different user interface settings and use by native…
Legal freedom or legal mush – Which law applies to the internet?
Digital content is ubiquitous, the legal systems of states are local. Conflict of laws is usually the legal solution, but it does not always and not completely fit. Comprehensive and functional comparative law can be the methodological…
Copyright in the digital age: legislation in the Context of conflicting interests
The blog post traces which interest groups and various stakeholders were able to influence the legislative process in terms of their interests and positions.
Citizen Science goes virtual – Digitalisation as a boom in participatory science?
Ordinary citizens involvement in scientific research should not be taken as a matter of course. Nevertheless, the history of science has over time seen various forms of civil society participation, including Citizen Science…
Digital Learning at Primary School
Digital media can expand the didactic toolkit and hence teaching basic computer science concepts is a prerequisite for digital sovereignty, as Ute Schmid writes in her blog post.
Embedding ethics into every step of emerging technologies
What exactly does it mean to ‘embed’ ethics into technology and how can this be effectively accomplished? Here we outline our Responsible Robotics project, along with some challenges and benefits of the embedded ethics…
3D printed human organs – only a sci-fi dream?
Imagine you could simply 3D print a new organ tailored to your very own physiology. Scientists around the world are working towards the feasibility of 3D printing functional organs using digital fabrication methods.
Corona, Digitalisation and us
The Corona pandemic provides a vivid illustration of what is important as we move towards a digital society: the conditions under which people can and must implement the possibilities of digitalisation in their private and professional…
What makes interactive technology ‘intelligent’?
In this project, we did not set out with the intention of coming up with a definition of AI or intelligence. Instead, we followed a bottom-up approach: We extracted the emerging perspective on ‘intelligence’ in a research…
Responsible Robotics – What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine that your elderly relative lives at home with her assistive care robot, which is tasked to help her with day-to-day activities. Then one day you receive a call to say that your relative has been found unconscious on the floor,…