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Society
Digital technologies are now an integral part of our everyday lives and permeate virtually all areas of our lives. This is increasingly bringing the design of digitalisation for society into focus, both in the public discussion and in research.
Future technologies are therefore linked to fundamental questions of social participation, public services, justice and democracy. The shaping of digitalisation gives computer science and information technologies a central responsibility. We are facing profound changes that will determine how we live and work in the future, how we communicate and how we jointly shape an open and democratic society in the age of digitalisation.
OFFIS as designer
The focus of the area is therefore on technological innovations for a sustainable digital society and the associated design framework in science, business and politics. The approach of a technology development that already addresses the possible interactions in its design represents a paradigm shift from a retrospective analysis of the effects of technology on society and the development of recommendations for action to a prospective design and development of technologies with the inclusion of different stakeholders - from ex post to ex ante.
Concrete applications
We have divided our concrete applications in research and development for a sustainable and inclusive society into the following R&D-groups:
Persons 
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Dr. Ing. Larbi Abdenebaoui
E-Mail: larbi.abdenebaoui(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-730, Room: Flx-S
Saja Aljuneidi-Dückino
E-Mail: saja.aljuneidi-dueckino(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-520, Room: Flx-S
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Projects
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Ability
Haptic Tablet For The Accessibility of Digital Content to the Visually Impaired
Duration: 2022 - 2025 AED Wirkt
Eine interaktive Entscheidungshilfe zur gezielten Platzierung von automatischen Defibrillatoren für die Lebensrettung bei Herz-Kreislaufkollaps
Duration: 2024 - 2026 AEQUIPA
Physical activity and health equity: primary prevention for healthy ageing
Duration: 2015 - 2022 AHOI_MINT
Building a high-quality innovative STEM network in Northwest Germany
Duration: 2020 - 2025B
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Digitopias
DIGItal TechnOlogies for Participation and InterAction in Society - Digital Technologies for Participation and Interaction in and with Society
Duration: 2022 - 2026F
Future Laboratory Society and Work
Duration: 2020 - 2024
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Publications
2025
Get Real With Me: Effects of Avatar Realism on Social Presence and Comfort in Augmented Reality Remote Collaboration and Self-Disclosure
Kaiser, Jonah-Noël and Kimmel, Simon and Licht, Eva and Landwehr, Eric and Hemmert, Fabian and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; April / 2025
Value-Driven Design for Public Administration: Insights from a Generative Chatbot in a Housing Application Case Study
Abdenebaoui, Larbi and Aljuneidi, Saja and Horstmannshoff, Fynn and Meyer, Jochen and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; 2025
Zusammen Erleben, Immersiv Teilhaben: Ein Praxisbeispiel zur Entwicklung immersiver VR-Technologien zur Steigerung der sozialen Teilhabe älterer Menschen - ZEIT
Felix Krooß and Danchen Zhang and Simon Kimmel and Wilko Heuten and Eric Landwehr and Yuliya Sobol and Fabian Hemmert and May-Britt Rohden and Anja Härtel and Clemens Winter and Arya Dhar; Virtuelle Beteiligung, reale Teilhabe: Transformative Technologien für eine inklusivere Gesellschaft; 2025
2024
"If You Don't Feel Guilty, You Won't Take Responsibility" - Co-Speculating on Digital Technologies That Encourage Sustainable Consumption
Yu, Tong and Shakeri, Gözel and Koelle, Marion; Proceedings of the 13th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; October / 2024
"We provide the methods to others but we don't use the methods ourselves": challenges with utilization of modern contraception among Female Healthcare Workers at two tertiary teaching hospitals, Northern Uganda
Opee, Jimmyy and Opiro, Keneth and Manano, Priscilla and Sikoti, Margret and Ayikoru, Jackline and Akello, Harriet and Laker, Fiona Gladys and Wolters, Maria K. and Awor, Silvia and Pebolo, Francis Pebalo and Bongomin, Felix; Contraception and Reproductive Medicine; October / 2024
2nd Workshop on Cars As Social Agents (CarSA): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human-Vehicle Interaction
Babel, Franziska and Thellman, Sam and Pelikan, Hannah Rm and Şahin Ippoliti, Hatice and Ziemke, Tom; Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; 2024
A QR Code Survey Platform that Links Digital Civic Engagement to Physical Places
Lindt, Dennis andWolters, Maria and Boll, Susanne; Mensch und Computer 2024 - Workshopband; 2024
Controlling the Rooms: How People Prefer Using Gestures to Control Their Smart Homes
Hosseini, Masoumehsadat and Mueller, Heiko and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; 2024
Designing Technologies for Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Mobility
Sadeghian, Shadan and Şahin Ippoliti, Hatice and Dey, Debargha and Wintersberger, Philipp; Adjunct Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications; 2024
Development and classification of autonomous vehicle’s ambiguous driving scenario
Baby, Tiju and Ippoliti, Hatice Şahin and Wintersberger, Philipp and Zhang, Yiqi and Yoon, Sol Hee and Lee, Jieun and Lee, Seul Chan; Accident Analysis & Prevention; 2024
