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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
249 - Where is the Closest AED? Reconciling AED Information from Different Lists
Fischer, Uwe and Bartling, Mona and Wolters, Maria K.; Resuscitation; October / 2025
From Explaining to Engaging: The Effect of Interactive AI Explanations on Citizens’ Fairness and Adoption Perceptions
Aljuneidi, Saja and Heuten, Wilko and Wolters, Maria and Boll, Susanne; Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2025: 20th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, September 8–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part II; 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
How Can We Help You? Automatic Categorisation of Urban Problem Reports
Lindt, Dennis and Meiners, Katharina and Wolters, Maria K.; Mensch und Computer 2025 - Workshopband; 2025
Listen When Citizen Sensors Speak: Free Text in Urban Problem Reporting Platforms
Lindt, Dennis and Bartling, Mona and Meiners, Katharina and Wehking, Roland*Ronja and Wolters, Maria K; British HCI - Late Breaking Work; 2025
Quick, Tangible, Playful: Reducing Barriers to Feedback
Colley, Jemina and Paananen, Siiri and Wolters, Maria; Mensch und Computer 2025 - Workshopband; 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
Why do They Need to Know I Spotted a Pothole? Privacy Issues in Canadian Municipal Problem Reporting Websites
Ray, Indrani and Wolters, Maria K and Vaniea, Kami; Mensch und Computer 2025 - Workshopband; 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
