Lennart HofeditzUniversity Hochschule Niederrhein | HSNR · GEMIT Institute
Lennart Hofeditz
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Introduction
Lennart Hofeditz currently works as research associate and PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen. Lennart does research in Information Systems. His current research is on virtual collaboration and socio-technical systems and especially ethical dimensions of AI-based systems in an organizational context.
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April 2019 - October 2021
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Publications (29)
An increasing number of clinicians (i.e., nurses and physicians) suffer from mental health-related issues like depression and burnout. These, in turn, stress communication, collaboration, and decision-making-areas in which Conversational Agents (CAs) have shown to be useful. Thus, in this work, we followed a mixed-method approach and systematically...
Many researchers hesitate to provide full access to their datasets due to a lack of knowledge about research data management (RDM) tools and perceived fears, such as losing the value of one's own data. Existing tools and approaches often do not take into account these fears and missing knowledge. In this study, we examined how conversational agents...
The digital transformation poses challenges for public sector organizations (PSOs) such as the dissemination of false information in social media which can cause uncertainty among citizens and decrease trust in the public sector. Some PSOs already successfully deploy conversational agents (CAs) to communicate with citizens and support digital servi...
Recently, virtual influencers (VIs) have become a more frequent alternative to human influencers (HIs). VIs can be described as non-human agents who behave in a human-like pattern. Big enterprises such as Prada, Porsche, Samsung, or Ikea have already collaborated with VIs in the past. Even though it should be clear to users that VIs cannot practice...
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Assuming that potential biases of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems can be identified and controlled for (e.g., by providing high quality training data), employing such systems to augment human resource (HR)-decision makers in candidate selection provides an opportunity to make selection processes more objective. However, as t...
The ethical dimensions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) constitute a salient topic in information systems (IS) research and beyond. There is an increasing number of journal and conference articles on how AI should be designed and used. For this, IS research offers and curates knowledge not only on the ethical dimensions of information technologies,...
Influencers in social media are often perceived as a trusted source for many people which is why companies increasingly promote their products through them. However, influencers can also cause reputational damage for a brand. Virtual (computer-generated) influencers can be used to minimize these risks and to better tailor content to a target group...
One drastic change that has been established in many organizations is the possibility of location-independent work. However, working remotely also creates distinct challenges that organizations must face. Thus, remote work could lead to a decrease in social interactions and therefore less implicit knowledge exchange in teams. However, informal conv...
Widespread mis- and disinformation during the COVID-19 social media “infodemic” challenge the effective response of Emergency Management Agencies (EMAs). Conversational Agents (CAs) have the potential to amplify and distribute trustworthy information from EMAs to the general public in times of uncertainty. However, the structure and responsibilitie...
Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are much more than mere platforms for video games and entertainment. They serve as tools for companies in a variety of industries, to improve virtual communication and teamwork. Especially for employees working in widely distributed teams, VR can be used to visualize problems and facilitate collaboration. However,...
Zusammenfassung
Coworking Spaces (CSPs) sind geteilte Arbeitsplätze für Selbstständige, Freelancer*innen, Mikrounternehmen und Startups, die Isolation entgegenwirken und zum interdisziplinären Wissensaustausch anregen können. Jedoch existieren auch Barrieren, die Nutzer*innen davon abhalten, zu anderen Coworker*innen Kontakt aufzunehmen, da oft unk...
To improve disaster relief and crisis communication, public institutions (PIs) such as administrations rely on automation and technology. As one example, the use of conversational agents (CAs) has increased. To ensure that information and advisories are taken up seriously, it is important for PIs to be perceived as a trusted source and a trustworth...
Virtual collaboration is an increasing part of daily life for many employees. Despite many advantages, however, virtual collaborative work can lead to a lack of trust among virtual team members, e.g., due to spatial separation and little social interaction. Previous findings indicated that emotional support provided by a conversational agent (CA) c...
To reduce the workload of employees working in Human Resource departments and to avoid bias in pre-selection of applicants, an increasing number of companies deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based algorithms. Some examples such as Amazon's discriminating recruiting algorithm showed that algorithms are not free of unethical decision making. Altho...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved beyond the planning phase in many organisations and it is often accompanied by uncertainties and fears of job loss among employees. It is crucial to manage employees' attitudes towards the deployment of an AI-based technology effectively and counteract possible resistance behaviour. We present lessons learned...
The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospitals yields many advantages but also confronts healthcare with ethical questions and challenges. While various disciplines have conducted specific research on the ethical considerations of AI in hospitals, the literature still requires a holistic overview. By conducting a systematic discourse...
Due to the increasing amount of data, media companies increasingly use algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) for both researching topics and autonomously creating journalistic articles and for publishing content on social media. However, previous studies found an increase of uncertainty of social media as a source of information, due to fake...
With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming increasingly capable of handling highly complex tasks, many AI-enabled products and services are granted a higher autonomy of decision-making, potentially exercising diverse influences on individuals and societies. While organizations and researchers have repeatedly shown the blessings of AI for humanity,...
Organizations introduce virtual assistants (VAs) to support employees with work-related tasks. VAs can increase the success of teamwork and thus become an integral part of the daily work life. However, the effect of VAs on virtual teams remains unclear. While social identity theory describes the identification of employees with team members and the...
Coworking is characterized by different people sharing a workspace to benefit from the inspiring working atmosphere. Even before Covid-19, many positive effects and dynamics were not fully exploited by their users. One reason is a lack of trust among the users that leads to social isolation, although a coworking space should increase knowledge and...
Coworking is characterized by different people sharing a workspace to benefit from the inspiring working atmosphere. Even before Covid-19, many positive effects and dynamics were not fully exploited by their users. One reason is a lack of trust among the users that leads to social isolation, although a coworking space should increase knowledge and...
Academic research generates increasing amounts of data that needs to be shared between collaborators, made publicly accessible and/or archived for the long term, all while respecting applicable regulations on topics such as data protection. Good research data management (RDM) is challenging, and despite the growing number of available technical sol...
In this study, we emphasized the non-technical factors perceived value and uncertainty factors in the context of academia, which impact researchers’ acceptance of open data–the idea that researchers should not only publish their findings in the form of articles or reports, but also share the corresponding raw data sets. We present the results of a...
Background
E-science technologies have significantly increased the availability of data. Research grant providers such as the European Union increasingly require open access publishing of research results and data. However, despite its significance to research, the adoption rate of open data technology remains low across all disciplines, especially...
Social bots are gaining in popularity and complexity. These technologies could provide assistance and new approaches to handle the numerous tasks on social media that occur in crisis communication. Social bots are applications that automatically produce content and interact with humans on social media, trying to emulate and possibly influence human...
As social media has permeated large parts of the population it simultaneously has become a way to reach many people e.g. with political messages. One way to efficiently reach those people is the application of automated computer programs that aim to simulate human behaviour - so called social bots. These bots are thought to be able to potentially i...
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RDM and usability study on the new sciebo user interface
As part of the great DFG project sciebo RDS, we are working with WWU IT from Münster on a planned migration of the hochschulcloud.nrw (sciebo) to a new and hopefully better user interface called ownCloud Web. For this, I am supervising a thesis that examines the usability and suitability of sciebo and ownCloud Web for research data management. The data from this work is enormously important for us to be able to further improve sciebo.
Since we rely on feedback from other researchers to do this, we need your help. It would be great if you could support us by participating in our study. I think that you will provide valuable feedback to improve the interface which also benefits you if you work with sciebo :)
Unfortunately, the study is only available in German language:
https://survey.proco.uni-due.de/349899?lang=de
With your participation you not only have the opportunity to give feedback on the new user interface, but you also get the opportunity to actively shape the improvement of the new interface. The study consists of some questionnaires about your usage of ownCloud and sciebo and some short interaction tasks.
The survey will take 20-25 minutes of your time and would help us a lot to optimize your cloud for you.
If you have further feedback, please feel free to contact me!
Thank you in advance!
