A team of economists from the University of Passau has shown how Facebook ads can be used to identify people at risk of developing diabetes.
LMU anthropologist Sahana Udupa studies the sociopolitical impact of digital media, with a focus on the dynamics of extreme rhetoric on online platforms. Global collaborations are vital to understanding this global phenomenon.
Most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the USA where several social media platforms have recently modified their policies in favor of unrestricted free speech. However, the majority of users believe that intolerance and hate have become unavoidable on social media. This was revealed in a large-scale survey conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Oxford in 10 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Australia. The study also highlights differences among countries.
The majority of 15-year-olds in Germany know how to perform online searches, but lack confidence when it comes to assessing the quality of the information they find. They rate their skills in this regard at a lower level than the OECD average. They are also less likely to consider their teachers sufficiently competent to use digital media in the classroom. This was revealed in an analysis of the latest PISA study.
In a project funded by the bidt, researchers from the Universities of Passau and Bamberg are investigating how Russia is developing its own generative AI models under strict supervision and how authoritarian data affects AI systems in democratic systems.
The majority of politically active individuals experience digital violence. The results of a study conducted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with the human rights organization HateAid show that around two thirds of affected women have experienced sexualized online attacks. Around one third of the respondents who experienced online aggression were also physically attacked. More than half changed their behavior – from self-restrictions on communications to the intention of abandoning their political involvement.
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.
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.
- With the help of the new HCTI standard, sensations can be transmitted over the Internet. - The tactile counterpart to JPEG, MP3 and MPEG was developed by a consortium led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM). - HCTI can be used in tele-surgery, tele-driving or in the gaming industry.
