Competence area human-centred digitality

All fields of our lives are significantly shaped by digitalisation - which makes it all the more urgent to see it as a design task. Human-centred digitality is a concept that places people and their social practices at the centre of digital transformation and technology development. This goes beyond user-friendliness and user experience (UX) and concerns the empowerment of the individual in terms of social and ethical responsibility, sustainability and the avoidance of digital overload. In order to research these aspects both from a scientific perspective and to implement and validate them in practice, we deal with the development, design and evaluation of socio-technical and intelligent systems - always with a focus on the impact on people and society. To this end, we combine practical perspectives with expertise from the subject areas of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Humanities, Social Sciences and Economics.

Sub­ject areas

This is an excerpt of current topics that are continuously expanded and updated.

  • Digital Twin / Immersion
  • Digital assistance in education
  • Reflective use of digitality in education
  • Human-centred development of artificial intelligence
  • Explainable and trustworthy artificial intelligence (Explainable AI, XAI)
  • Value-sensitive AI design
  • Human-centred technology/interaction design
  • Co-construction of skills and content
  • Collaboration & New Work
  • Social media/social computing
  • Digital identity & responsibility

Fields of ap­plic­a­tion

Automotive

 

Education

 

Health promotion

 

Medicine

 

Prevention

 

Robotics

 

Social Media

 

Goals and vis­ions

Our aim is to empower and enable individuals to assume both social and ethical responsibility in the digital world. Sustainability and the avoidance of digital overload are at the forefront of this. We are committed to designing technologies in such a way that they support people in their personal and social development without overburdening them.

We also endeavour to develop, design and evaluate socio-technical and intelligent systems that not only enable technological progress, but also take into account the impact on individuals and society. Our approach sponsors a balanced and responsible integration of technology that promotes the well-being of users and the common good.

Re­search ques­tions and tasks

  • How can we support work and learning processes through immersive technologies and increase participation?
  • What competences do AI systems need to enable responsible use?
  • What role do explanations play in empowering people in their decisions?
  • How can a paradigm shift in the design of technology towards user involvement be achieved?
  • Which features and functions of AI systems are trusted by people?
  • How can we improve science communication in the field of AI?
  • How does the term 'digitality' differ from 'AI' and 'digitalisation'?

Selected projects

SMART-EAT: Gesünder.IN.NRW

Duration: 2024 - 2027 Funded by: MWIKE NRW

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5G-Lernorte OWL

Duration: 2022 - 2025 Funded by: MWIKE NRW

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DigiSelF - Digitalisierung als Herausforderung und Innovation in der Hochschullehre

Duration: 2021 - 2025 Funded by: StIL

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Dir­ect­or

Katharina Rohlfing

> Key research area Transformation and Education

Professor

Office: TP6.2.304
Phone: +49 5251 60-5717
E-mail: katharina.rohlfing@uni-paderborn.de

Man­ager

Enes Yigitbas

> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)

Coordinator - PostDoc - R&D Manager - Hu­man-Cen­te­red Di­gi­ta­li­ty

Office: ZM2.A.03.05
Phone: +49 5251 60-6826
E-mail: enes.yigitbas@uni-paderborn.de

Uni­ver­sity lec­tur­ers in­volved

> Wirtschaftspädagogik und Evaluationsforschung

Professor - Lehrstuhlinhaber

Office: Q1.441
Phone: +49 5251 60-2367
E-mail: marc.beutner@uni-paderborn.de

> Paderborn University

Chairwoman - Professor - Ethics committee Paderborn University

> Paderborn University

Vice President - Professor - Knowledge- and Technologytransfer

Office: Q3.122
Phone: +49 5251 60-2090
E-mail: rene.fahr@uni-paderborn.de

> Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen

Professor - Eventmanagement mit den Schwerpunkten Popmusikkulturen und digitale Medienkulturen

Office: H7.204
Phone: +49 5251 60-4324
E-mail: beate.flath@uni-paderborn.de

> Communications Engineering / Heinz Nixdorf Institute

Head - Professor - Head of Department of Communications Engineering

Office: P7.2.05.3
Phone: +49 5251 60-3626
E-mail: haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de

> Department 5: Wirtschaftspädagogik

Speaker - Professor - Department Head

Office: Q1.316
Phone: +49 5251 60-5437
E-mail: karina.kiepe@uni-paderborn.de

Office: Q3.149
Phone: +49 5251 60-5533
Phone: (+49) 5251 60-5531
E-mail: dennis.kundisch@wiwi.uni-paderborn.de

> Digital Humanities

Professor

Office: E2.321
Phone: +49 5251 60-3275
E-mail: tobias.matzner@uni-paderborn.de

> Software Innovation Campus Paderborn (SICP)

Manager - Professor - Managing Director, Senior Researcher

Office: ZM2.A.03.74
Phone: +49 5251 60-6820
E-mail: sauer@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: sauer@sicp.de

> Key research area Transformation and Education

Professor

Office: H4.320
Phone: +49 5251 60-2901
E-mail: niclas.schaper@uni-paderborn.de

> Personalwirtschaft

Professor

Office: Q3.334
Phone: +49 5251 60-2929
Phone: 05251602930
E-mail: martin.schneider@uni-paderborn.de

> Signal & System Theory (SST)

Head - Professor

Office: P1.7.01.2
Phone: +49 5251 60-2213
E-mail: peter.schreier@sst.uni-paderborn.de

> Key research area Transformation and Education

Professor

Office: F2.116
Phone: +49 5251 60-6343
E-mail: carsten.schulte@uni-paderborn.de

Office: F2.224
Phone: +49 5251 60-6681
E-mail: es@uni-paderborn.de

Office: Q3.301
Phone: +49 5251 60-2080
E-mail: kirsten.thommes@uni-paderborn.de

Office: FU.231
Phone: +49 5251 60-6309
Phone: +49 1606675582
E-mail: heike.trautmann@uni-paderborn.de

Office: Q2.448
Phone: +49 5251 60-4180
E-mail: matthias.trier@uni-paderborn.de

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