Designing Value-Sensitive AI: A Methodological Guide to Value Sensitive Design

Prof. Hendrik Heuer, together with Christina Cociancig (University of Bremen), published the article “Toward a Clearer Process for Value Sensitive Artificial Intelligence” in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. The paper demonstrates how Value Sensitive Design (VSD) can be applied more methodically, transparently, and value-oriented in the development of AI systems.

Election Research in the Age of Regulated Data Access Under the EU Digital Services Act

Prof. Johannes Breuer publishes, together with Philipp Darius, Simon Kruschinski, Felicia Loecherbach, Jasmin Riedl, and Sebastian Stier, the article “Election research in the age of regulated data access under the EU Digital Services Act” in Internet Policy Review. The article analyses the implications of regulated platform data access for empirical election research in Europe.

How AI-Based Writing Tools Can Improve Text Understandability

Prof. Hendrik Heuer, together with Sven Goller and Prof. Daniel Buschek, has published the article “Writing Support Tools for Making Text Understandable: A Socio-Technical Perspective on Stakeholder-Centered Writing” in i-com – Journal of Interactive Media. Their contribution investigates how software can support writers in making texts more understandable for people with cognitive impairments.

AI Use in Science Communications Is Established, but Hardly Strategic

A new study by Justus Henke (HoF) and Matthias Begenat (CAIS) shows that 84% of university press offices regularly use generative AI – but strategic integration lags significantly behind operational use. The newly developed KIWI-Matrix (“AI in Science Communication”) makes this discrepancy systematically visible for the first time.