Hof, Germany – The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) brings not only technological advancements but also complex ethical questions. Particularly in the case of generative AI, such as text and image generation models, the issue of biased outcomes has come under scrutiny. Professors Dr. René Peinl, Marc Lehmann, and Dr. Andreas Wagener from the Institute for Information Systems (iisys) at Hof University of Applied Sciences have analyzed this issue and arrived at intriguing findings.
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and healthy for longer. “You can walk slowly with the shorts but you can also jog,” says TUM Professor Lorenzio Masia. “We have developed a system that makes people want to move around more. It's the same concept as the electric bike, but for walking.”
Can virtual agents strengthen the trust of people with a migration background in the police? A research team from the University of Würzburg has investigated this. The results surprised even those responsible.
Never before have people recorded more information about their lives than today. But what does this mean for the way we remember our lives and how we talk about them? Researchers from the University of Würzburg and the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen are trying to find answers to these questions.
Boston University economist Professor Marshall Van Alstyne was one of the keynote speakers at the DPE Forum, a conference organised by the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems", which brought together renowned researchers from around the world to discuss the power of digital platforms at the University of Passau on 4 and 5 June.
During the production of chips for sensors, minimal, unwanted deviations occur that make the chip unique and can serve as a “fingerprint” for identification. In the Nanosec2 project, researchers at the University of Passau are investigating how these fingerprints can be improved so that they contain more randomness and fewer errors.
Enabling higher education for young people in poverty-stricken areas, social hotspots and crisis regions on site – this has been the aim of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) since 2019 in collaboration with the Jesuit educational organization "Jesuit Worldwide Learning – Higher Education at the Margins" (JWL). One of the partnership’s offers is the "Learning Facilitator Program", which now has around 500 graduates in ten different countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Kenya and Sri Lanka. A detailed survey of graduates for a scientific study by JWL now shows the value of such offers not only for the students themselves, but also within their communities.
- 18 percent of reported sick leave relates to musculoskeletal ailments, in particular back-related disorders. - The GyroTrainer is an intelligent training device that resembles a balance board. - It uses artificial intelligence to adjust the difficulty level to the individual patient’s current ability.
Under the direction of Dr Sofia Rüdiger, the role of language on the internet is being analysed at the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth. A new project focuses on videos that showcase excessive food consumption. The German Research Foundation is funding the project with around 500,000 euros over a period of three years.
A new generation of cloud services is on the rise. It is based on the paradigm of "serverless computing", which is an active research topic at the Institute for Computer Science in Würzburg.
