Bachelor

Digital Social Innovations

Lecturer: Dr. Larissa Gebken

Format: Seminar

Study program: Bachelor Socioeconomics

Language: German / English

Stine link: Digital social innovations

The course's focus is on the development of value-sensitive Digital Social Innovations (DSI). The aim of DSI is to address social challenges - such as poverty and injustice, human rights violations or climate change - using suitable information and communication technology.
However, in order not to cause more harm than good in the development of a DSI, the seminar focuses in particular on critical reflection on the role that important ethical values and social challenges play in our DSI projects. In the course of development, you should proactively deal with potential ethical dilemmas and the ethical and social aspects of your project and your own approach, of course with the guidance of the teachers. Dealing with dilemmas and proactively developing an understanding of values will be introduced to you with the help of Value Sensitive Design (VSD).

Sustainability Podcast

Lecturers: Dr. Svenja Tobies & Dr. Christina Kannegießer

Format: Seminar

Study programs: 

• Bachelor Socioeconomics
• Students of the sustainability certificate

Language: German

Stine link: Sustainability Podcast

This seminar offers students the opportunity to engage intensively with the topic of sustainable business and at the same time develop practical media skills. As part of the seminar, the course participants first form an editorial collective and work together to develop the concept for a podcast series in which specific aspects of sustainable business are examined from multiple perspectives.  Afterwards, in small groups of 2 people, all participants will produce their own podcast episode of 15-20 minutes in length based on their own research and dialogue with relevant actors inside and outside the university, which will serve as the basis for grading. During the course, students will gain insights from research and practice on current sustainability topics and learn about all steps of podcast production - from concept development and brainstorming to recording, post-production and publication. During the seminar, participants will be closely supported by academic staff from the Professorship for Sustainable Business, and by staff from Universität Hamburg's Media Competence Center (MCC) in the form of academic and methodological input, workshops and regular feedback sessions. Ultimately, the aim is to create a series of high-quality, informative and appealing podcast episodes at the end of the semester, that shed light on the topic of sustainable business from various perspectives.

Between Utopia and Dystopia: Visualizing the Future with AI

Lecturers: Dr. Larissa Gebken & Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons

Format: Seminar

Study programs: Bachelor of Social Economics

Language: German

Stine link: Between Utopia and Dystopia: Visualizing the Future with AI

This course focuses on the development of visions of the future. The aim is to develop both dystopias and utopias of a (sustainable) future. The development of visions of the future is supported with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). 
In addition to the critical development of visions of the future, the AI systems used will also be examined in terms of their influence on the environment and society. 

Psychologie meets Computer Science

Lecturers: Dr. Larissa Gebken, Habiba Schiller, Dr. Matthias Pillny, Junbo Huang

Format: Project Seminar

Study program: Studium Generale (*Computer Science, Psychology)

Target audience: Bachelor / Master

Language: German

Stine link: Psychologie meets Computer Science

This interdisciplinary project seminar (in the form of a block course) for students of computer science and psychology takes place in the summer and winter semesters.
You will learn how to meet the challenges of machine learning in psychology. To this end, the broadly applicable programming language Python will be taught with application to a psychological question: you will investigate the relationship between music consumption behavior and mental health.

You will learn to formulate your own hypotheses, collect complex data and prepare different types of data for analysis. They will record their own music consumption behavior and other relevant data using smartwatches. This also sensitizes them to issues of data quality and the data protection-compliant and ethically sensitive handling of personal data. After evaluating the data using suitable machine learning methods, the results are visualized and reflected upon in order to present them publicly at a final event.

You will learn the necessary basics of the Python programming language with the help of online courses and flipped classroom sessions.

Digital Social Innovations

Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Janick Edinger; Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons; Philipp Kisters

Format: Workshop

Study program: Studium Generale (*Computing Science, Psychology)

Target audience: Bachelor / Master

Language: German

Stine link: Digital Social Innovations

In this course, innovative, digital and social business models are designed and developed in the form of a mobile application during a four-week internship. Examples include digital assistance systems, applications for recording pollution and waste accumulation in cities, apps for sharing objects and programs to support homeless people. All of these projects are based on using digital innovation potential to promote one or more of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The course is based on the computer science module “64-158 Practical course Development of context-sensitive applications for mobile devices”. While the students from the computer science module are largely responsible for the implementation of the mobile application, students from all disciplines are invited to develop concepts for digital social innovations in this module.

Psychologie meets Computer Science

Lecturers: Dr. Larissa Gebken, Habiba Schiller, Dr. Matthias Pillny, Junbo Huang

Format: Projektseminar

Study program: Studium Generale (*Computer Science, Psychology)

Target audience: Bachelor / Master

Language: German

Stine link: Psychologie meets Computer Science

This interdisciplinary project seminar (in the form of a block course) for students of computer science and psychology takes place in the summer and winter semesters.
You will learn how to meet the challenges of machine learning in psychology. To this end, the broadly applicable programming language Python will be taught with application to a psychological question: you will investigate the relationship between music consumption behavior and mental health.

You will learn to formulate your own hypotheses, collect complex data and prepare different types of data for analysis. They will record their own music consumption behavior and other relevant data using smartwatches. This also sensitizes them to issues of data quality and the data protection-compliant and ethically sensitive handling of personal data. After evaluating the data using suitable machine learning methods, the results are visualized and reflected upon in order to present them publicly at a final event.

You will learn the necessary basics of the Python programming language with the help of online courses and flipped classroom sessions.

Value-Sensitive Digital Social Innovations - Addressing Social Challenges with Technologies

Lecturers: Dr. Laura Fichtner and Dr. Larissa Gebken

Format: Project seminar

Study program: Studium generale

Target group: Bachelor / Master

Language: German

Stine link: Digital Social Innovations

The courses focus on the development of value-sensitive Digital Social Innovations (DSI). The aim of DSI is to address social challenges - such as poverty and injustice, human rights violations or climate change - using suitable information and communication technology.
However, in order not to cause more harm than good in the development of a DSI, the seminar focuses in particular on critical reflection on the role that important ethical values and social challenges play in our DSI projects. In the course of development, you should proactively deal with potential ethical dilemmas and the ethical and social aspects of your project and your own approach, of course with the guidance of the teachers. Dealing with dilemmas and proactively developing an understanding of values will be introduced to you with the help of Value Sensitive Design (VSD).

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