Ada Lovelace Programme presented at kick-off event
The Ada Lovelace Programme was established in 2023 with the aim of developing new potential for cooperation in the thematic area of Humans in the Digital Age (HDA) and to further strengthen cross-disciplinary research networking efforts. In a competitive award procedure, the Rectorate selected a total of six research projects (each with one pre-doc position, some of which not yet filled) in the course of two calls for proposals (May 2023 and May 2024) after consulting the Research Council. The research projects were recently presented at a kick-off event.
The University of Klagenfurt is committed to further enhancing and developing its research profile and research priorities. A central initiative in the development of the university’s profile and priorities during the 2022–2024 performance period is the expansion of the university-wide research field Humans in the Digital Age (HDA). In addition to consolidating the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC) as the organisational core of the research field, the next step involved tapping into new potential for cooperation in the field of HDA and further strengthening the interdisciplinary research network. One of the central measures to achieve this objective is the funding of a total of six doctoral thesis projects, each with a pre-doc position in the Ada Lovelace Programme. The doctoral thesis projects are to be set up as interdisciplinary research projects in the field of HDA.
‘Humans in the Digital Age’ refers to research into the digital transformation by considering not only its technological, but also its economic, legal, social, behavioural and cultural dynamics, phenomena and effects. In order to promote the interdisciplinary character of the doctoral projects, the projects are each designed and supervised by two researchers from different disciplines.
The projects are:
- Longitudinal Effects of Online Recommendations: A Simulation-based Approach (Department of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity / Department of Business Management)
Project team: Marlene Holzleitner, Dietmar Jannach, Stephan Leitner - Developing a Virtual-Reality Game that Fosters Empathy and Perspective-Taking (Department of Psychology / Department of Information Technology)
Project team: Kseniia Harshina, Judith Glück, Mathias Lux, Felix Schniz - Alexa, let’s work out now: Machine Learning zur Echtzeit-Bewegungskorrektur in Training und Therapie (Department of Movement Sciences / Department of Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity)
Project team: Roman Dorrek, Jan Wilke, Gerhard Friedrich - Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in the Digital Age (Department of Business Management / Department of Networked and Embedded Systems)
Project team: Friederike Wall, Christian Bettstetter - A Machine Learning Approach to Smart Electricity Load Management: From Disaggregation to Policy Impact Evaluation (Department of Networked and Embedded Systems / Department of Economics)
Project team: Wilfried Elmenreich, Martin Wagner - Streaming of Holographic Content and Evaluating its Impact on the Quality of Experience (Department of Psychology / Department of Information Technology)
Project team: Heather Foran, Christian Timmerer, Hadi Amirpourazarian
The Ada Lovelace Programme is named after Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), a British mathematician who wrote the first computer programme. (The picture featured in the article is AI-generated.)