Category: Portrait

Memes are spreading across social media and shaping the public climate debate. How exactly do they do this – and do memes even influence political decisions?

How to make digital transformation work for companies? Angela Graf and Thomas Hess show that it is an organisation’s identity that counts.

Sabine Pfeiffer, a sociologist, conducts research on the relationship between individuals, technology, and organisations, as well as the impact of digital transformation on society.

How can innovative digital systems support the demanding, multi-professional collaboration of palliative care professionals? The PALLADiUM project is investigating this question.

As research coordinator, Maria Staudte supervises the bidt junior researcher programme and is the contact person for doctoral students. She knows her way around thanks to her many years of experience in research and teaching.

Why we need new ideas for human-robot collaborations and what innovative collaboration in production can look like is being researched by the team of the bidt project “EmPReSs”.

Can an algorithm help youth welfare workers to act ethically? Michael Reder and Christopher Koska examine this question using the example of child welfare endangerment.

The bidt project “Responsibility gaps in human-machine interactions” investigates the appropriate trust in machines for medical decisions.

Dr. Andreas Wenninger is research coordinator at bidt. In his role, he combines different perspectives from research and science management.

As managing director, Christoph Egle keeps an eye on the big picture at bidt. The political scientist organises the processes that steer the institute’s research, from the strategic direction of research and determination…