Research and Transfer Projects: Weizenbaum Institute

On the ambivalence of transparency of digital HR systems

The project examines the effects of the use of digital HR systems on the work of HR, employees and works councils.

Generative AI in science. How is scientific practice changing?

The research project investigates the impact of generative AI tools (genAI) on scientific practice and knowledge production.

Between Economy and Democracy: Reorganizing Research Evaluation through Metadata in the Digital Era

This project explores the reorientation of research evaluation through metadata in the digital age.

AI-augmented social scientist: Labeling Methods for TikTok News content

The project investigates critically the application potential of generative AI as a method for the social sciences.

Digital Dashboards

Digital dashboards are important tools for making complex topics understandable for both experts and the general public, and they are also used in many public sectors.

Call for Paper: Digitalization for sustainability transformations: Critical perspectives, lessons learned, and future prospects

Towards Informational Sustainability: Grasping the Co-Productionist Nature of Digitalization and Sustainability

The project "Towards Informational Sustainability: Grasping the Co-Productionist Nature of Digitalization and Sustainability" aims to explore how digitalization and sustainability are connected.

Unveiling the AI-Bias

Exploring Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Decision-Making.

AI for Bad: Far-right campaigning through AI-generated visual content

The project explores the significance of AI-generated images in the political communication of far-right and other anti-democratic actors.

Ethics of Data Work

This research project is about developing fair working systems for data workers and ethical guidelines for researchers.

Generative AI in the world of work (GENKIA)

The diverse applications of AI make it very appealing in the workplace. This research project explores the implications for employees, various business sectors, and the quality of work.

Delphi-Study with Psychotherapists

This project looks at the effects of social media on well-being from a psychotherapeutic perspective.

Business model innovation in the digital and ecological transformation

The project analyzes how established companies develop sustainable and resilient future strategies, and investigates the associated challenges for managers, works councils and employees.

Data Workers' Inquiry

The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers conduct research in their workplaces. The findings serve as a repository and resource for researchers, journalists, and policymakers seeking first-hand accounts of data work, as well as for other data workers.

Interdisciplinary Digitalization Research Cartography

The Weizenbaum Institute researches interdisciplinary digitisation research itself and offers a comprehensive overview of the networking of the field with two interactive maps - one for the DACH region and a supplementary map of Europe.

ELIZA reloaded

The "ELIZA reloaded" project investigated the transformation of knowledge work through the use of generative language-based AI systems. The focus was on three areas: Programming, science and consulting.

Privacy Icons

Privacy policies are difficult for many people to understand. This project aims to develop symbols to simplify these guidelines.

Open Educational Practices

As part of this project, a self-assessment tool was developed for lecturers at academic institutions to support the design and evaluation of participatory teaching and learning formats.

Data Awareness Canvas

The Data Awareness Canvas is a workshop tool that sensitises people to the potential and risks of automated data use in organisations. The goal of the tool is to accompany the data-based transformation of an organisation.

Algorithmic Management

The project analyses the effects of Algorithmic Management (AM) on employment relations and employee representation.

Living in a Datafied World: Experiences & Attitudes of Young Europeans

As part of this project, the Weizenbaum Institute and the Goethe-Institut conducted a joint study to investigate the opinions of young people in Europe towards the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

Neue Daten, neues Wissen? Infrastrukturen der Leistungsbewertung in der Wissenschaft (NeDa)

Das Projekt untersuchte die digitalen Infrastrukturen der Datenerhebung und -auswertung von wissenschaftlicher Leistung und ihre Folgen für die Praktiken der Forschungsevaluation und das Verständnis von wissenschaftlicher Praxis.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our working environment

The project investigates how the economic and social disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the digitalisation of the working environment in the short and medium term, and whether they will even act as a catalyst for a digitalisation push.

Towards digital schools

In the context of this project, we modeled the transformation process of a school in cooperation with the Käthe-Kollwitz-Gymnasium Berlin and investigated it in a design-oriented way.

Reorganisation of Production Networks

This project investigates the reorganisation of production networks in China and Germany.

Venture Capital in Europe

The project "Political Economy of Venture Capital in Europe" examines the emergence and impact of venture capital as a form of startup-financing in Europe.

Learning via Digital Assistance Systems

Digital assistance systems are intended to instruct people to operate production facilities in industrial production, even without prior knowledge. In this interdisciplinary project, the researchers are investigating how well step-by-step guidance that relies exclusively on assistance systems works and where further qualification is necessary.

EdTech in Transition

In this interdisciplinary project, an overview and classification of Educational Technology providers will be developed.

Weizenbaum Knowledge Hypercube

The Data Awareness Canvas is a workshop tool that sensitises people to the potential and risks of automated data use in organisations. The goal of the tool is to accompany the data-based transformation of an organisation.