Conversational Agents for Deep Reflection among Users

Diane Linke

Reflection is found to play a mediating role in learning processes, and can benefit from technological support. Research on reflective informatics, i.e., technologies that facilitate and support reflection among users, has put forth a variety of technologies that support reflection up to a certain ...

Cultural-technical manifestations of museum collection orders and transformative effects of digital technologies

Project Partner Prof. Dr. Christian Kassung , Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Katrin Glinka ’s dissertation project investigates the effects of digitality on the cultural technique of collecting in museums. It integrates a cultural studies perspective with perspectives and approaches from computer science and Human-Computer Interaction. Based on a discussion of ...

Data Diversity in Wikidata

Mariam Farda Sarbas

Dec 01, 2017

Wikidata, the sister project of Wikipedia, is a structured knowledge base launched in 2012. It was developed with the goal of "serve anyone anywhere in the world” that is made possible through designing it with the feature of plurality which allows multiple statements to coexist. Having the ...

Designing Decisions: Supporting Quality Decision-Making through User Interfaces

David Leimstädtner

The contexts in which sensitive decisions are taking place continuously shift into the digital realm. From a human-computer interaction perspective, critical attention ought to be paid to the design of the user interfaces mediating these decisions, as they have been found to shape them.In my ...

I am a Designer, so why Research? Endorsing a Value Sensitive Design Practice through Design Research

Peter Sörries

This dissertation aims to gain new insights through a value sensitive design process emphasizing that research can enrich and inform design practice. Over the years, design has become a popular term in different disciplines (e.g., design education for industry) that have shaped the term design ...

Improving Human-AI collaboration

Ulrike Schäfer

Due to the increasing use of AI in high-stakes situations, it is becoming more relevant to tackle emerging problems in human-AI collaboration, such as overreliance and misuse.  Since current Explainable AI (XAI) methods do not address these challenges, I design and evaluate explanations that go ...