Archive: Research Projects
Resilience by orchestrating citizen-driven innovation through digital platforms in urban-rural constellations (ROBIN)
We are investigating how the resilience of municipalities in their respective regional interdependencies can be improved by orchestrating citizen-driven innovation. The focus is on exploring design knowledge for an open digital…
Using AI to Increase Resilience against Toxicity in Online Entertainment (ToxicAInment)
This project brings together theories of entertainment, visual communication and toxic speech to understand how and why toxicity becomes more permissible when it is masked as entertainment. It deploys AI methods to identify,…
Digital humanism
The project aims to contribute to ensuring that the process of digital transformation in Bavaria and Europe is aligned with human needs and ethical values in the spirit of the core ideas of humanist philosophy and practice.
Prevalence and acceptance of artificial intelligence
Project description The rapid development and spread of artificial intelligence (AI) has a profound impact on society. New generative AI models can already create text, images, and videos that are indistinguishable from human-generated…
Digitisation in university teaching
To what extent is digital learning content taught in higher education? The project team is analysing course descriptions from various universities in order to gain insights into their degree of digitalisation and make them…
Data Donations and Digital Nudges for Sustainable Behavior Change
The project DataDonations4SustainableChange is dedicated to the question of how awarenessand willingness to donate data can be promoted by means of digital nudges in order to achieve sustainablebehavioral change in the areas…
The Influence of Humorously Intended Communication on Political Decision-Making in the Context of Climate Change
KLIMA-MEMES investigates the influence of memes (humorously intended texts/pictures/videos shared online) on political decision-making in the context of public discourses about an adequate handling of climate change.
The bidt-Digitalbarometer
As a representative population survey, the bidt-SZ-Digitalbarometer provides data on digital transformation in Germany.
Digitalisation at universities due to the coronavirus (DiHS.c)
The collaborative project being undertaken by the IHF and the bidt examines the impact of the corona pandemic on the digitalisation of universities.
Coding Public Value: Public service media and software for the common good
The project investigates the possibility of exercising media policy through the development of software. The focus is on developing a software for public media platforms that not only serves business models but also considers…