Archive: Phenomena

Virtual forest bathing: Can virtual reality applications promote well-being?

Discover how virtual forest bathing can promote well-being through virtual reality applications.

Legal tech – automation of legal activities

Legal tech enables the automation of legal activities through the use of software. The article shows how legal tech makes traditional legal activities more efficient and creates new fields of activity.

The future of university exams: ChatGPT and the era of e-exams

Electronic exams and AI: opportunity for better exams or devaluation of higher education?

Digital afterlife – an ethical consideration of the digital afterlife industry

The digital afterlife industry offers avatars for a digital afterlife. The simulation of the deceased raises ethical questions with regard to mourning and remembering in data-economic contexts.

Mixed reality in vocational education and training

Mixed reality is increasingly being used in education and training, whereby important technological and pedagogical (design) decisions must be made in order to achieve sustainable training success.

Digital communities

Digital communities are based on algorithmically mediated social relationships in digital space. They enable flexible participation and intensive interaction and form a new dimension of communitization.

The importance of data trustees for data portability and data sovereignty

Data trustees can combine data utilisation with data protection and informational self-determination. The conditions for their role as intermediaries and protectors of fundamental rights deserve consideration.

The role of digital innovations in managing organizational change processes

Knowledge-based digital innovations strengthen the communication, empowerment and participation of employees and increase the success of change projects in the Industry 4.0.

The interaction between humans and robots: How do people experience intelligent machines?

How we experience robots influences how we deal with them. This article outlines various phenomena of how we experience robots in social and work environments with a particular emphasis on ethical principles.

Online misogyny: manifestations and dynamics towards politically active women

Online misogyny is embedded in existing political structures of discrimination and oppression and affects women who belong to minorities or historically disadvantaged groups with particular severity.