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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:
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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
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
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
Enhancing Citizen Accessibility to Public Services: A Case Study on AI-Assisted Application for Housing Entitlement Certificates
Abdenebaoui, Larbi and Aljuneidi, Saja and Meyer, Jochen and Boll, Susanne; INFORMATIK 2024; 2024
Forms of Fraudulence in Human-Centered Design: Collective Strategies and Future Agenda for Qualitative HCI Research
Panicker, Aswati and Nurain, Novia and Ibrahim, Zaidat and Wang, Chun-Han (Ariel) and Ha, Seung Wan and Kaziunas, Elizabeth and Wolters, Maria K and Chung, Chia-Fang; Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; May / 2024
Keep Track! Supporting Spatial Tasks with Augmented Reality Overviews
Illing, Jannike and Gruenefeld, Uwe and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction; October / 2024
Kinetic Connections: Exploring the Impact of Realistic Body Movements on Social Presence in Collaborative Virtual Reality
Kimmel, Simon and Landwehr, Eric and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction; November / 2024
Mitgestaltung organisieren: Wie Digitalisierung gelingt. Arbeitssoziologie, Informatik und Kommunikationswissenschaften im Dialog
Altendorf, Antonia and Illing, Jannike and Malczok, Melanie and Heuten, Wilko and Kuhlmann, MArtin and Boll, Susanne; Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen; 2024
