Research Projects We study the impact of digital transformation

The multidisciplinary research consortium investigates how digital innovation can be used in organisational change processes to better address challenges and to increase the success rate of change projects.

The project is investigating how AI in climate protection can help to increase the willingness to accept messages and promote an objective debate with counter-arguments.

What are society’s requirements for regulating video platforms? To answer this question, the project is aiming to develop evidence-based regulatory policy options.

Recognizing the importance of artificial assistance systems, the bidt-funded project studied their involvement during the training process.

The project DataDonations4SustainableChange is dedicated to the question of how awarenessand willingness to donate data can be promoted by means of digital nudges in order to achieve sustainablebehavioral change.

This research project investigates the determinants of data disclosure in the digital workplace. The goal is to develop a deep understanding of how various factors of digital work influence the willingness to disclose data.

The project explores on motivators and inhibitors of individual collaboration platform usage within the realms of organizations.

The project aims to contribute to ensuring that the process of digital transformation in Bavaria and Europe is aligned with human needs and ethical values in the spirit of the core ideas of humanist philosophy and practice.

This research project investigates the interplay between digital transformation and organisational identity.

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.

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

The project analyzes the use of digital communication tools in leadership practice and investigates their potentially destructive effects. The aim is to identify key mechanisms and, building on this.

The project explores biases, implicit theories of change and implications of existing sustainability measurement and valuation models and generates against the background of this analysis new data access points.

The project explores the co-creation process of humans and AI in the context of creating program code by combining AI methods and approaches from experimental cognition research.

The interdisciplinary research project examines aspects of societal acceptance and the legal framework of intrusion into private devices by law enforcement authorities from the perspective of law, computer science and social…

The project investigates the understanding and the use of modern technologies. The focus is on language-based interactive systems that serve as dialogue partners for users.

The project analyses and designs the digital working environment of palliative care. At the core of the project is the design of a digitally supported work system to improve multi-professional collaboration.

The rapid development and spread of artificial intelligence (AI) has a profound impact on society. New generative AI models can already create text, images, and videos that are indistinguishable from human-generated content.

The bidt conducted several short surveys providing insights into the prevalence and practice of home office in Germany (in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic).

In the course of accelerated climate change, provisioning of digital information on dynamics in forests plays a key role for climate change-appropriate and sustainable forest management.

We are investigating how the resilience of municipalities in their respective regional interdependencies can be improved by orchestrating citizen-driven innovation. The focus is on exploring design knowledge.

The project aims to navigate the trade-off between specificity and generality in regulation, particularly in dynamic digital markets, by developing resilient principles for interoperability regulation.

The bidt-funded project investigates the potential vulnerabilities of relying on machines in medical decision-making.

As a representative population survey, the bidt-SZ-Digitalbarometer provides data on digital transformation in Germany.

KLIMA-MEMES investigates the influence of memes (humorously intended texts/pictures/videos shared online) on political decision-making in the context of public discourses about an adequate handling of climate change.

The bidt-funded project investigates the content and dynamics of online misogyny against politically active women and develops methods for early identification of such emerging dynamics.

This project brings together theories of entertainment, visual communication and toxic speech to understand how and why toxicity becomes more permissible when it is masked as entertainment.