Dr. Severin Kacianka

PostDoc Researcher, Chair of Software Engineering | Technical University of Munich

Dr. Severin Kacianka is a PostDoc Researcher at the Chair of Software Engineering headed by Professor Pretschner. In his PhD thesis, he focused on accountability for Cyber-Physical Systems and showed how we can use the mathematics of causality to express and compare notions of accountability.

Additionally, he works on a joint project with the bidt where they investigate how to best embed ethical deliberation into the software development process.

Before joining the chair, he studied at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt in Austria where he received his Master’s degree with distinction. In his master’s thesis, he worked on video streaming for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks.

kacianka@in.tum.de
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Digital society

Digitisation in university teaching

Project

To what extent is digital learning content taught in higher education? The project team is analysing course descriptions from various universities in order to gain insights into their degree of digitalisation.

Digital responsibility

Ethics in agile software development (EDAP)

Project

The project aims to design a tool facilitating the creation of software systems, integrating ethical questions into the process of development.

Digital responsibility

Ethical deliberation for agile software processes: EDAP scheme

Publication

The increasing use of software in more and more areas of society makes it inevitable to talk about ethics in software development. This paper presents the EDAP (Ethical Deliberation for Agile Processes) scheme, a tool that…

Digital responsibility

Codes of Ethics for Software Development: Why they are only of minor use

Blog
17 September 2020

Codes of ethics in the context of software development lack practical applicability, as they cannot solve emerging conflicts of values. Our approach “Ethical Deliberation for Agile Software Processes” (EDAP) takes up ethical…

Publications

  • Zuber, Niina; Gogoll, Jan; Kacianka, Severin; Nida-Rümelin, Julian; Pretschner, Alexander (2023)

    Value-Sensitive Software Design: Ethical Development in Agile Development Process

    Contribution / chapter
    Werthner, Hannes; Ghezzi, Carlo; Kramer, Jeff; Nida-Rümelin, Julian; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Prem, Erich; Stanger, Allison, Introduction to Digital Humanism. A textbook., P. 339-358, Cham, Springer
    ISBN: 9783031453038
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5
    Project: EDAP
  • Zuber, Niina; Gogoll, Jan; Kacianka, Severin; Pretschner, Alexander; Nida-Rümelin, Julian (2022)

    Empowered and embedded: ethics and agile processes

    Journal article
    Humanit Soc Sci Commun (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications), Volume: 9, Nr. 1
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-022-01206-4
    Project: EDAP
  • Hundt, Andrew; Agnew, William; Zeng, Vicky; Kacianka, Severin; Gombolay, Matthew (2022)

    Robots Enact Malignant Stereotypes

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness 2022, P. 743-756
    DOI: 10.1145/3531146.3533138
    Project: EDAP
  • Gogoll, Jan; Zuber, Niina; Kacianka, Severin (2022)

    Software ist ein ganz besonderer Saft

    Grey literature / report
    Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie Aktuell, P. 33-34, München
    https://badw.de/die-akademie/presse/zeitschrift-akademie-aktuell/einzelartikel-aa/detail/akademie-aktuell-jahrgang-2022-ausgabe-nr-77.html
    Project: EDAP
  • Zuber, Niina; Kacianka, Severin; Gogoll, Jan (August 2021)

    Superhelden ohne Menschlichkeit?

    Für einen empathischen Umgang mit Menschen und einen sachlichen Blick für das Digitale

    Grey literature / report
    pflegen: Palliativ, Nr. 51
    Project: EDAP
  • Pretschner, Alexander; Zuber, Niina; Gogoll, Jan; Kacianka, Severin; Nida-Rümelin, Julian (2021)

    Ethik in der agilen Software-Entwicklung

    Journal article
    Informatik Spektrum, Volume: 44, Nr. 5, P. 348-354
    DOI: 10.1007/s00287-021-01390-8
    Project: EDAP
  • Kacianka, Severin; Pretschner, Alexander (2021)

    Designing Accountable Systems

    Conference paper
    Proceedings of the 2021 ACM 2021, P. 424-437
    DOI: 10.1145/3442188.3445905
    Project: EDAP
  • Gogoll, Jan; Zuber, Niina; Kacianka, Severin; Greger, Timo; Pretschner, Alexander; Nida-Rümelin, Julian (2021)

    Ethics in the Software Development Process: from Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation

    Journal article
    Philos. Technol. (Philosophy & Technology), Volume: 34, Nr. 4, P. 1085-1108
    DOI: 10.1007/s13347-021-00451-w
    Project: EDAP
  • Biebl, Bianca; Kacianka, Severin; Unni, Anirudh; Trende, Alexander; Rieger, Jochem W.; Lüdtke, Andreas; Pretschner, Alexander; Bengler, Klaus (2021)

    A Causal Model of Intersection-Related Collisions for Drivers With and Without Visual Field Loss

    Conference paper
    Stephanidis, Duffy et al., Proceedings of HCI International 2021, Volume: 13097, P. 219-234
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90966-6_16
    Project: EDAP
  • Zuber, Niina; Kacianka, Severin; Pretschner, Alexander; Nida-Rümelin, Julian (2022)

    Ethische Deliberation für agile Softwareprozesse: EDAP-Schema

    Book (edited)
    bidt, bidt Working Paper
    DOI: 10.35067/bv16-2z27
    Project: EDAP