Master's student of Applied Computer Science Alisa Münsterberg summarised the day very positively: "I thought it was great that we had the opportunity to get to know so many employees with very different backgrounds - including at the University of Bamberg. You often get the impression that straightforward CVs are better received by large companies, which can be off-putting, but that was nicely refuted here. I also found it interesting that they are focussing on alternative work concepts - I would personally like a fixed desk, but the hanging chairs and couch landscapes are very inviting."

The excursion was organised by the Women's Office at the WIAI faculty. The organisation offers company visits to exciting companies every two years to provide students with insights into computer science practice and concrete contacts with future employers.

Theresa Henn uses a blended learning approach that supplements classroom teaching with digital elements. This includes podcasts, brain teasers, gamification tools and other innovative approaches to practical teaching. Short videos enable asynchronous preparation and follow-up of the course. The Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science congratulates Theresa Henn on this special honour.

The two existing AI professorships at the Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences since 2004 and 2013 were supplemented by seven additional AI professorships thanks to the University of Bamberg's great success in the Bavarian AI competition. A further nine professorships for computer science and information systems with strong links to AI and AI applications in industry, healthcare and education will be added to the centre.

The emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects established for Bamberg's computer science will be implemented at BaCAI through cooperation with the humanities and social sciences within the framework of the Center for Innovative Applications of Computer Science (ZIAI). The center is the cornerstone for a broad expansion of research in the field of AI. A new degree programme in "AI and Data Science" will broaden the range of courses offered in the field of AI, which has been in existence since 2004. The establishment of a graduate programme is also planned.

She is one of 113 people to have received this honour so far. Also honoured this year were Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dieter Fellner, who researches digital libraries and 3D data, the former Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar and database architect Dr.-Ing. Harald Schöning. The list of renowned personalities includes only one other Bamberg resident. In 2017, Prof. Dr. Elmar J. Sinz, founding dean of the WIAI faculty, was honoured for his information systems research in the field of modelling.

And how does an e-examination work? The exam is processed in the browser and provided by a web server that runs directly on the exam laptops. Power or network failures during the exam are therefore no problem. To ensure that web access is restricted in line with the exam, the laptops are in an isolated WLAN controlled by a laptop at the exam invigilator (in the case of a remote exam, there would be corresponding firewall rules). The solutions entered by the students are saved on the SSDs of the laptops as well as on USB sticks and continuously transmitted to the invigilator's computer in the background.

QR codes and checksums are used to activate the examinations and assign them to the examinees. When all examiners have completed their examinations, two additional backup copies are made of all examinations submitted. The exams are ready for correction. And this is more convenient and quicker for the examiners than is the case when correcting analogue exams.

To ensure that the students were not overwhelmed by the new exam situation, an explanatory video was made available in advance, and students were allowed to bring their own mouse to make it easier to use - in addition, there was a mock exam for practice just two months beforehand.

The good news: we are not helplessly at the mercy of the risk of contagion! To counteract the transfer of stress, it helps to consciously distance oneself from one's own emotional reaction to others - in the case of cognitive contagion, it is helpful to acquire a strengthened self-confidence in one's own IT skills and to realise that one can cope with the situation oneself.

More valuable tips and results from the joint research project 'ForDigitHealth' are available free of charge as an online guide to dealing with digital stress: https://gesund-digital-leben.de/ergebnisse-2/digitaler-stress-der-wegweiser/

In the joint project of the universities of Augsburg, Bamberg, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Munich and Würzburg, experts from medicine, communication science, psychology, computer science and business informatics conducted interdisciplinary research for four years. 'ForDigitHealth' was funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts with a total of 3.4 million euros.

More in the uni.blog: https://blog.uni-bamberg.de/forschung/2023/fordigithealth/

📱 weCARE: The first team addresses the problem of being overwhelmed in the "management of administrative tasks" after the death of relatives >> through digital death care, the app weCare supports bereaved families in important decision-making processes.

📱 FINCLU: The second team proposes a solution to address the loss of members of local associations and the desire for easier access to leisure activities in the region >> a platform was developed for "leisure networking" with associations, groups and people in the region

📱 Bargain: Team 3 addresses the problem that many vouchers remain unused when shopping >> a digital wallet for voucher management and voucher trading was developed

📱 Matchhive: How do we solve housing shortages in the region? >> Team 4 has designed a matching platform for shared housing that connects landlords, existing tenants and potential new flatmates.

The project management team around Prof. Dr. Daniel Beimborn, David Zurek, Elias Grewe and Ferdinand Mittermeier (Chair of Information Systems, especially Information Systems Management) was very positively impressed by the students' ideas, commitment and initiative. Since this project is a contrast to the often very theoretical lecture content at university, the students are often faced with new challenges: From finding a real customer problem to independently developing and testing a prototype to creating a first business model, they were all able to master them.

The final event of the project 'Digital Entrepreneurship' was organised in cooperation with Digital.Fabrik GmbH, sponsored by the medium-sized company CHSN and the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (BIG) of the University of Bamberg.

The Chair of Human-Computer Interaction of the University of Bamberg once again invites you to the OpenLab-Night at its Cooperative Media Lab at the ERBA campus on Thursday July 20, 2023 from 18:00 to 21:00.

Presented will be human- and task-oriented applications, technological concepts, prototypes, and systems, which have been developed under the research guiding premise "Human-Centred Computing" at the chair in current research, cooperation, and transfer projects as well as in student projects and theses.

Numerous live demonstrations allow visitors to interactively try out the latest technologies and thus gain an insight into the work of the chair. The spectrum of this OpenLab Night ranges from innovative approaches to distinguish true and false statements in online questionnaires, to the identification of truth content in social media, to cooperative collaboration in confined spaces, as well as other exciting research topics in human-computer interaction. In addition, further insights into bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses at the chair will be offered, as well as an impression of transfer projects with industrial partners. Interested visitors will also have the opportunity to visit the usability lab of the chair.

The Cooperative Media Lab is located in the ERBA building in room WE5/01.045, An der Weberei 5 in Bamberg. You can find the poster of the event as PDF at: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/hci/News/OLN_Poster/OLN_SS2023_de.pdf (8.4 MB)

A nice impression of the OpenLab Night is given by videos of the last events:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSn1GSbO3M0 und https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHuMzTh1m1g

Pitch Night 2023

The Pitch Night is the final event of the project 'Digital Entrepreneurship' at the Chair of Information Systems, especially Information System Management.

In this three-month project, Bachelor students learn to solve complex problems and develop new ideas and then turn them into concrete prototypes. Digital solutions will be linked to social and economic models and finally a business idea with a business plan will be formulated. These will be presented on Thursday, July 13, starting at 5:30 p.m. in the rooms of the Digital.Fabrik (An der Spinnerei 3, 96047 Bamberg) by the student teams to a broad audience from business, university and interested parties. A total of four concrete business models will emerge from this semester's project.

The Pitch Night as well as the whole project 'Digital Entrepreneurship' has been developed in cooperation between the University of Bamberg and the Digital.Fabrik GmbH and is supported by the medium-sized company CHSN and the Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Bamberg.

You are cordially invited to be part of it! Please register via the following link so that the event organization can plan accordingly: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/time-to-pitch-in-3-monaten-zum-digital-entrepreneur-130723-tickets-668684873457?aff=oddtdtcreator ;

Project presentations from the field of Digital Health

Prof. Daniela Nicklas' Chair of Mobile Systems invites you to the final presentation of the project results in the summer semester on Monday, July 17, 2023. For this purpose, the students will present their results in a poster presentation.

The specific topics of each exhibition are:

• MEDTALK: Speech-to-text application in medical practices.
• Accessiwheel: route planner for people with mobility impairments
• Snappoll: Survey tool for social science studies

The final presentation will take place on July 17th, 2023 between 11:00 and 13:45 in the foyer (main entrance to the library) at Erba (An der Weberei 5). The event is open to the public.