Digital transformation

"Digital Life" for us means enriching people's lives with the help of digital technologies, e.g., in

• culture, art, design and creativity
• education, political participation and involvement as well as
• the transformation of social processes

To this end, we develop novel, interactive media and assistance systems and investigate their impact on social life.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr. Benjamin Tannert
• Prof. Andreas Teufel
• Martin Koplin
• Prof. Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram

The vision of ubiquitous computing formulated by Mark Weiser in the early 1990s is now largely a reality. Smartphones and tablets are indeed ubiquitous, in many "smart" devices the computer is no longer recognisable as such and mixed, augmented and virtual reality applications merge reality with computer-generated content and functionalities. In the topic area of ubiquitous computing, the researchers in the cluster are working on investigating and actively shaping these developments.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr. Volker Paelke

• Prof. Andreas Teufel

• Prof. Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram

• Martin Koplin

• Benjamin Tannert

Research in this area focuses on the development of security concepts/architectures and elaborates "Secure by Design" approaches. This is done in different application areas and changing contexts.

Our motto is: We bring applied information security into the processes!

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr. Evren Eren
• Prof. Dr. Philipp Last
• Bastian Fraune
• Till Schleicher
• Prof. Dr. Richard Sethmann

The goal of Industry 5.0 is to create sustainable and resilient (stable) working environments that focus on the actual people involved in the production process.

For this purpose, we further develop well-known technologies such as AI, IOT, VR/AR from I4.0 and embed them in suitable novel processes.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jasminka Matevska
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Bohnebeck
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Trittin
• Prof. Dr. Volker Paelke
• Prof. Andreas Teufel

Here, interdisciplinary teams work on the conception and evaluation of technologies, methods and processes for the realisation of software-intensive systems.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jasminka Matevska
• Prof. Dr. Thorsten Teschke
• Prof. Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram
• Prof. Dr. Phillipp Last
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Trittin
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Bohnebeck

We develop and use methods for recording, processing, modelling, analysing and visualising data with a focus on machine learning methods such as neural networks for applications in the industrial environment.

We follow a methodical development approach that takes into account the validity, trustworthiness and transparency of the solutions, including social aspects.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Bohnebeck
• Prof. Dr. Martin Hering-Bertram
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Trittin
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mario Goldenbaum

Cloud computing includes both software and infrastructure components for the provision of applications and services in the cloud. Different forms or cloud levels such as IaaS, IaaC, FaaS, PaaS and SaaS can come into play.

The research area aims at the application of "cloud computing" technologies in connection with

• distributed infrastructures and services,
• virtualisation of networks,
• software and Systems Engineering and
• Industry 4.0.

Researcher:

• Prof. Dr. Evren Eren

• Prof. Dr. Lars Braubach

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jasminka Matevska

• Prof. Dr. Richard Sethmann

Technological innovations not only offer new fields of application, but also harbour new risks for users.

The aim is therefore to identify the challenges for the use of new technologies, especially at the present moment in the field of artificial intelligence – already in the planning and development phase – and to design such technology on the basis of an interdisciplinary and overall societal perspective as well as to embed it in application scenarios in such a way that application risks for users are excluded from the outset.

Researcher:

• Dennis-Denji Kipker
• Prof. Dr. Evren Eren
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uta Bohnebeck
• Prof. Dr. Jan Bredereke