Sessions

Climate catastrophe, rising populism, devastating wars, infringement on academic freedom. We live in troubled times. There is hence a growing demand for impact-driven and engaged scholarship to address societal grand challenges. What does this mean for the future of academia?

Wie machen uns Apps süchtig? Kontrollieren wir noch unsere Bildschirmzeit oder kontrolliert die Technologie uns? Wie können wir bewusster mit sozialen Medien umgehen und unser Wohlbefinden steigern? Es ist Zeit, die Verantwortung und Konsequenzen zu hinterfragen!

Does designing for Mars help us feed and care for people on Earth? At the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analog habitat, the crew developed life support systems that can feed and support people in the most challenging and inhospitable environments.

Discover 'fieldshifting,' a process that uncovers underlying knowledge commonalities across scientific disciplines. By translating research papers using language models, fieldshifting fosters interdisciplinary understanding and collaboration, advancing scientific inquiry.

Dieser Vortrag stellt die aktuelle Lage der XR-Branche dar. Was ist der Status Quo von Hard-, und Software? Was hat es mit dem Begriffsdschungel um XR, Metaverse und Spatial Computing auf sich? Sehen wir eine weitere Iteration der mobilen Plattformökonomie Apple vs Android auf uns zukommen?

The logics that control our lives are secretly changing, as private companies entrench ill-understood technologies in every facet of our society. If we do not know the rules that govern our lives, how can we maintain autonomy? And how are private actors building a gibberish world to escape the law?