Re­search

The Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at Kassel University stands for 15 years of successful interdisciplinary IT development. ITeG brings together working groups from different disciplines (computer science, information systems, psychology, human-machine systems engineering, law and sociology).

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Hu­mans and ma­chines as team part­ners

Advances in the field of artificial intelligence offer new design options for reorganizing knowledge work at the interface between humans and AI. The differences in the abilities and skills of humans and machines create new design challenges that this research project will address. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with 1.9 million euros. The AI junior research group in Kassel is headed by Dr. Sarah Oeste-Reiß.

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Recht­shand­buch So­cial Me­dia (Legal Manual So­cial Me­dia)

With the development of the internet into Web 2.0, social media have become an indispensable part of our private and professional everyday life. Services such as Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp or platforms for reviews and blogs have gained considerable practical importance and raise numerous legal questions that are often unresolved or evolving.

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More pri­vacy in the world of di­gital work

Chat rooms and working from home - the boundary between the professional and private worlds is becoming increasingly blurred, and privacy is is being challenged by digital technology. Instead of banning technology, researchers at the ITeG are focusing on so-called "nudges": little helpers for smart behavior.

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Am­bi­val­ent tech­no­logy – between sup­port or sur­veil­lance

Computer scientists and legal scholars from the Re­se­arch Cen­ter for In­for­ma­ti­on Sys­tem De­sign at the University of Kassel are conducting research in the interdisciplinary DFG project "NORA" on the recognition and prediction of contexts of mobile collaborative applications in accordance with data protection.

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Po­s­i­tion Pa­per. Re­quire­ments and design pat­terns for the leg­ally com­pli­ant and qual­ity-ori­ented design of con­text-sens­it­ive ap­plic­a­tions (An­EkA).

At the end of the DFG project "Requirements and design models for the legally compatible and quality-centred design of context-sensitive applications (AnEkA)", the interdisciplinary team of researchers in business informatics and law at the ITeG presented tangible recommendations for action for the design of requirements and design models.

Position Paper. Requirements and design patterns for the legally compliant and quality-oriented design of context-sensitive applications (AnEkA). : Read More
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"Fair di­gital ser­vices: Co-valu­ation in the design of busi­ness mod­els in data eco­nomy (FAIRD­I­EN­STE)".

In the project "Fair digital services: Co-valuation in the design of business models in data economy (FAIRDIENSTE)", different ways of balancing values in a fair way in the course of business model design are explored using sociological and information systems approaches.

"Fair digital services: Co-valuation in the design of business models in data economy (FAIRDIENSTE)".: Read More

Cur­rent Re­search Pro­jects

New and ongoing research at the ITeG Research Centre

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