Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

EMPOWER-U: Meta-Consent Framework for Responsible, Patient-Centered Health Data Disclosure

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Jan 01, 2025 — Dec 31, 2027

The EMPOWER-U research project investigates how the meta-consent model can strengthen informational self-determination for patients, making their medical health data available for research purposes. The objective is to empower patients to make a reflected and informed decision on sharing their ...

ILLUMINATION - Privacy-Preserving Usage of Large Language Models in Healthcare Applications

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Aug 01, 2024 — Jul 31, 2027

The release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in 2022 has stimulated interest in large language models (LLMs), leading to research in recent months on various healthcare applications of LLMs, such as for clinical workflows, online psychological services, but also for triage and symptom assessment in emergency ...

Robot-Assisted Surgery

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Nov 01, 2019 — Dec 31, 2025

In the »Robot-Assisted Surgery« project, part of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material«, we focus on future designs of surgical systems to augment human-robot interaction. Robot-assisted surgery is becoming a significant part of surgical practice, enhancing ...

enkis - Supporting a Critical Reflective Practice in Human-Centered Data Science Education

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Dec 01, 2021 — Nov 30, 2025

The goal of the project »enkis« is to establish sustainable study programs for responsible artificial intelligence at the Freie Universität Berlin. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a central topic in computer science research, and its development has lasting implications for society. Recent ...

A Digital Research Space for the BUA

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Oct 01, 2021 — Mar 31, 2024

The Berlin University Alliance has a high scientific output in the form of publications and research data. So far, these heterogeneous digital resources have been partially made available through isolated data repositories located at the institutions, thus, scattering the resources over several ...

Digi-POD - Digitalized clinical decision support for the prevention of postoperative delirium

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Jan 01, 2024 — Feb 28, 2025

Postoperative delirium (POD) is the most common post-operative complication in the 70+ age group, affecting approximately fifteen percent of elderly patients. POD is characterized by impaired attention, awareness, and cognitive function. Both patients and their families are severely affected by ...

DocTalk - Dialogue meets chatbot

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Feb 01, 2020 — Apr 30, 2023

The overall objective of the project "DocTalk - Dialog trifft Chatbot" is to test digital communication and learning paths in order to meet the increased requirements of interdisciplinary cooperation and at the same time specialised process flows both technically and didactically. This means in ...

FreeMove

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Mar 01, 2021 — Jun 30, 2024

The potential of using movement data is enormous: it is, amongst others, needed to manage critical situations such as epidemics and disasters, or to support sustainable and human-centered urban- and traffic planning. At the same time, collecting, processing and making movement data available ...

Innovonto/Ideas-to-Market

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Nov 01, 2016 — Mar 31, 2020

One of the main processes in innovation is the generation of ideas for new applications of technologies. This process can be implemented using collaborative ideation platforms (i.e. online large-scale platforms for generating ideas), which has shown remarkable success so far: Leveraging the crowd ...

Robotic Assistance in the Emergency Department

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

May 01, 2024 — Apr 30, 2025

Mismanagement of patients directed to the emergency department and the resulting overcrowding lead to overburdening emergency department staff. Besides the core task of the emergency department, which is to provide care for time-critical, life-threatening health conditions and for which personnel ...

Usability Analysis and Redesign of Course Builder Module in Educational Material Platform

Apr 24, 2015 — Dec 18, 2015

The ELAP web application is envisioned to serve as a platform used by professors and educational staff to find and share teaching material related to entrepreneurship education. It is developed by the Entrepreneurial Network University of Freie Universität Berlin. Based on the results of the ...

WerteRadar - Donating health data with sovereignty

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Jul 01, 2020 — Dec 31, 2023

The administrative admission of patients in a clinical context often takes place under great time pressure. In such a situation, patients are not sufficiently informed about the consequences of their data transfer and are therefore not able to make informed and reflected decisions. This situation ...

IKON

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Nov 01, 2016 — May 31, 2020

The Natural History Museum in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science) is  among the top 10 world-wide and the largest of its kind in Germany. The museum is home to over 30 Mio. collection objects, more than 250 researchers and more than 400 ...

Creative Cognitive Systems

Ana-Maria Olteteanu

Jan 01, 2017 — Nov 21, 2020

The aims of this project are twofold. One is the study of creative problem solving in humans. The second is the implementation of, study and experimentation with artificial cognitive systems which yield similar performance as human participants and can be evaluated with human creativity tests. ...

Entrepreneurial Network University

Apr 01, 2014 — Jan 31, 2018

Freie Universität Berlin collaborated with Charité successfully in the competition EXIST IV of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) in January 2013, under the topic “Entrepreneurial Network University” (ENU). Freie Universität Berlin receives EUR 2.8 millions from ...

German Federation for Biological Data

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Sep 01, 2015 — Aug 31, 2020

The German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio) is a sustainable, service oriented, national data infrastructure facilitating data sharing for biological and environmental research. The infrastructure supports scientists in all aspects of research data management, covering the The TS enables a ...

Hybrid Knowledge Interactions (HKX)

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Apr 01, 2016 — Dec 31, 2018

Working with physical objects is an essential part of a wide range of research processes such as in archeology, medicine, architecture, and design. These research processes with physical objects are especially challenging in two regards: (1) for providing direct access to physical objects for ...

Wikidata - Collaborative Ontology Development

Feb 01, 2015 — Dec 31, 2019

The Wikipedia project showed that community-based knowledge-generation can produce and maintain a knowledge-base of high quality. While Wikipedia is human-readable, the WikiData project aims at building a machine-readable knowledge representation, which can be interpreted as an ontology. These ...

Trust in Data Science

Dr. Simon David Hirsbrunner

Nov 28, 2019 — Nov 27, 2021

The project investigated trust-related questions in the context of data science practice and knowledge. Two perspectives on trust were investigated in particular: 1. Trust-building measures in interdisciplinary data science On the one hand, the project investigated trust-building measures in ...

Design and implementation Girls'Day WebApp

Jan 01, 2015 — Jun 30, 2015

For the Girls' Day web application at Freie Universität Berlin the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Research Group developed a concept for an appropriate user interaction design, the information design as well as the user interface design. The web application offers girls at the age of 10 till 15 ...

Semantic Annotation for Digital Humanities

Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Birn

Jan 01, 2014 — Dec 31, 2021

The HCC Research Group investigates how semantic annotations can enrich scholars' knowledge creation work. Our semantic annotation software neonion enables scholars (and other users) to annotate semantic concepts in text documents, link annotated concepts to existing linked-data entities, for ...

Heuristic Evaluation of ELAP - An Educational Material Platform

Feb 10, 2014 — Apr 28, 2014

The ELAP web application is envisioned to serve as a platform used by professors and educational staff to find and share teaching material related to entrepreneurship education. It is developed by the Entrepreneurial Network University of Freie Universität Berlin. The Human-Centered Computing ...

User Research for new Girls'Day WebApp

Oct 14, 2013 — May 15, 2014

For the new Girls' Day web application of the Freie Universität Berlin the Human-Centered Computing (HCC) Research Group conducted a user-centered and usability-oriented requirement analysis. The requirement analysis is based on the following pillars: interviews with several stakeholders of ...

Integrating Automotive Sensor Data

Apr 12, 2013 — Jul 12, 2013

Modern cars are equipped with a variety of sensors that have not been used for out-of-car applications, yet. For example, the fuel usage (miles per gallon) could be used to feed a game that shows the environmental impact of the driving style, thus creating a challenge to drive green. In this ...

Smart Mobility

Apr 13, 2012 — Jul 13, 2012

Going on a business trip is a routine activity for many employees, but the processes to plan, book and the way of travelling have changed in recent years. We have online booking sites, Mitfahrgelegenheiten and car sharing. "Improving the experience for their travelling employees while making ...