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.

The project investigates the development and use of generative AI to support designers in the design of 3D objects that may be realised by 3D printing.

The project accompanies the introduction and use of the generative AI tool “OneTutor” at universities in Bavaria to investigate its influence on students’ learning behaviour and academic success. By conducting quantitative…

Texts and pictures created with generative AI can be heavily biased against women and minorities. The aim of this project is to gain insight into the phenomenon, its effects, and potential countermeasures.

This project investigates how, and with what consequences, are LLMs developed under strict oversight and censorship in contemporary Russia. And what impact do authoritarian data (tainted by censorship) have as they are fed into…

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

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 explores the implications of digital transformation processes at the organizational level. Focussing on engineering companies, it investigates digital transformation can be effectively shaped with established…

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 investigates conditions for the design of trustworthy AI systems in cognitive psychology experiments and implements these prototypically as demonstrators.

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 brings together expertise from criminal law, law enforcement, business informatics and philosophy to examine the question of under what circumstances and to what extent the use of AI and deepfakes in law enforcement…

The project analyses how German political parties use generative AI, its influence on election campaigns and on public trust.

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 analyses psychological processes that foster or hinder trust in generative AI in legal contexts and examines the acceptance and perspectives of various actors.

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 project explores a specification-driven approach to software development that eliminates the need for programming skills, aiming to empower individuals to design digital technologies and thereby enhance the digital sovereignty…

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…

This research project examines the possibilities for universities to use AI in exams and to prepare students for a digital working world.

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 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).

How does generative AI reshape creativity in advertising? The project explores its impact on creative work, professional identities, and the meaning of creativity – between innovation, efficiency, and human authorship.

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.

From the perspective of self-regulated learning, the project investigates which competences students have for interacting with generative AI and how they use them.

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 project investigates the design of trustworthy generative AI copilots and their influence on the business decisions of users without a technical background.

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.