COPP - Co-Pilot in Production

COPP is developing an AI-supported assistant co-pilot that assists employees in highly automated production environments with analysis and decision-making processes: dialog-based, transparent and directly comaptiable with existing systems.

Further information: https://www.bikar.com/de_DE/ueber-das-unternehmen/copp

Digital Citizen

DigitalCitizen empowers citizens in digital competencies, including legal literacy (knowing and asserting digital rights and obligations), data literacy (interpretation, use, and protection of data), and protection literacy (learning resilience techniques and capability to self-defense by developing a 4D flipped classroom-inspired system that has micro-learning components and interactive mini-games to present the learning material in engaging, bite-sized components.

Further information: https://erasmusdigitalcitizen.com/

ARGUS

ARGUS demonstrates how innovative human-computer interaction (HCI) based on speech-based interaction can help visually impaired people overcome barriers, experience shopping in a positive way, and live their lives in a self-determined way that maintains health and improves quality of life.

Further information: https://projekt-argus.de/

ATLAS

Digitalization has triggered a profound structural change in the automotive industry: As part of the ATLAS - Automotive Transformation Platform Südwestfalen funding project, we accompany and support small and medium-sized companies in these transformation challenges. The goal is to develop forward-looking approaches to individual problems. We provide automotive suppliers in South Westphalia and beyond with fast, efficient and precisely tailored support services for the development of new, digital and sustainable business models, the use of new technologies and the qualification of employees.

Further information: https://atlas-swf.de/

Fusion

As part of subproject 3 "Resource efficiency & decarbonization" of the FUSION research project, we are working on optimizing the energy and resource consumption of SMEs and the participatory development of digital intermodal mobility solutions. Our goal is to support the transformation of mobility with innovative solutions. We are working to transform mobility, particularly in less densely populated areas, to make it demand-oriented, sustainable and socially responsible.

Further information: https://fusion.uni-siegen.de//

BeDeNUTZ: Advice for users

Anyone who moves around in the digital world is confronted with a degree of opacity and complexity. In order to navigate competently through this world, users must constantly gather knowledge and information themselves about the technical and economic framework conditions, which are difficult to understand, otherwise it is not possible to act in a self-determined manner. In order to support consumers in developing the critical user competence required for this, the BeDeNUTZ research project is investigating the question of how their informational self-determination can be strengthened with the help of consumer protection institutions.

Further information: https://www.uni-kassel.de/forschung/iteg/forschung/bedenutz

Competence Center SME 4.0 Usability

The SME 4.0 Usability Competence Center supports small and medium-sized enterprises in designing digital technologies in such a way that they can be used easily and experienced positively. The design of digital products and services requires optimal usability (U) and a positive user experience (UX). If suitable UUX methods are applied, this leads to higher productivity, greater customer satisfaction and increasing user enthusiasm.

As part of this project, Prof. Dr. Gunnar Stevens' Consumer Informatics research group is particularly concerned with designing innovations for and with users. This is realized through a Living Lab for the areas of living, mobility and nutrition as well as support for SMEs in the development of user-centered innovations. In the protected area of the Living Lab, new products and services can be developed experimentally, tested under real conditions and continuously improved. Furthermore, e-learning offers for UUX management and user studies (user research) support these innovation processes.

Further information: https://www.kompetenzzentrum-usability.digital/

AntiScam

The AntiScam research project investigates new forms of fraud, in particular voice phishing (vishing), which are becoming increasingly realistic and difficult to detect thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. The project takes a holistic approach, using explainable fraud detection (XAI) to identify synthetic voices and explain the recognition features of such attacks to users in a comprehensible way. An educational game strengthens consumers' self-protection skills, while a legal analysis examines existing regulatory gaps and derives specific recommendations for action.

Further information: https://antiscam-project.de

Gecko

GECKO is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955422. This project focuses on accountable, responsible and transparent artificial intelligence to address urgent environmental needs and achieve the goals of the European Green Deal, so that all citizens benefit from the sustainable green transition.

Further information: https://gecko-project.eu/

FreshIndex

The FreshIndex project is developing a concept for dynamically determining the shelf life of food. Using the example of two pork products, freshness is determined on the basis of the manufacturer's hygiene data and the actual storage conditions. The microbiological processes are mapped using mathematical models. The task of Prof. Dr. Stevens' consumer informatics research group is to identify the needs and practices of the various stakeholders along the value chain to ensure food quality and to derive recommendations for action from this. Furthermore, the digital communication of food freshness will be examined and design concepts developed and evaluated.

Further information: http://freshindex.org/

ASUP

In the ASUP project, the concepts researched in the UUIS project were developed further. Users were involved in the design and further development of ubiquitous environmental information systems (UUIS) in order to ensure their suitability for practical use. For this purpose, a web-based visualization framework was developed that allows end users a high degree of flexibility in the design of individual energy dashboards. Furthermore, its appropriation was investigated as part of the project

Simply Share

The Einfach Teilen project investigated how private car sharing can be simplified. Informal private car sharing, e.g. within the family, and organized private car sharing via internet platforms already exist. However, the number of participants - especially in organized private car sharing - is still relatively low. As part of the project, the existing inhibitions and barriers were initially investigated. Based on this, further research was carried out into what private car sharing should ideally look like in order to be attractive to more people.

CarBITS

In addition to the economic benefits of smart services, user acceptance in times of increasing "datafication" of everyday life represents a design challenge for the practical success of ubiquitous information services. Since data collection, storage and processing are usually invisible to the user, there is a lack of suitable feedback and control mechanisms for the user that enable ergonomic interaction.

To this end, the acceptance and success factors of smart services and how users handle the collected data in the automotive context were researched. In addition, concepts for a privacy dashboard were developed that allow users better awareness and control over their own data.

SPIDER

The SPIDER project aimed to develop a prototype smart meter gateway that could be certified by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). This was developed using standardized G3 powerline technology for secure data transmission between consumption points and network operators. The project was supported by renowned universities and companies from the energy and IT sectors. DECOIT GmbH, IS-Bremen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS were responsible for system analysis, security architecture, system design and implementation as well as communication security and the trusted computing approach. System integration and powerline communication were provided by devolo AG. Aspects of ergonomics and user acceptance were handled by the University of Siegen. The project partners were supported by datenschutz cert GmbH.

UUIS

In the UUIS project, the potential of ubiquitous environmental information systems (UUIS) for recording and representing product and behavior-related energy consumption was analyzed and their feasibility explored in a prototype. It was shown how end users and companies can be provided with the right information on production and consumption-oriented energy consumption at the right time and in the right place. In addition, services and business models for energy contracting and energy consulting were developed in the project with the aim of introducing UUIS-supported energy management and measures derived from it.

SmartLive

The scientific focus of the SmartLive project was on the one hand to develop guidelines for the ergonomic design of intelligent home IT solutions and design patterns for smart home/smart energy systems. Furthermore, it was investigated to what extent the innovation methodology of Living Labs can be designed in such a way that they offer a cost-effective and sustainable service to support usable innovation development for SMEs.

CUBES

The aim of the project was to enable small and medium-sized enterprises to build up an active user community for their products and to systematically implement participative and user-centered development processes. To this end, a procedural model was developed that particularly provides for the inclusion of one of the most important resources in the development and innovation process: user knowledge. Ideas, problems or opinions arising from the users' work contexts were to be transferred into an orderly discourse, which in turn led to the planned implementation of innovative, usable software.