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Digital transformation is now reaching into topics like End-of-life Care, Funeral Culture, and Coping with Grief. Those developments are inevitably accompanied by the growing challenge to design IT systems that are appropriate and helpful for the stakeholders involved. Our aim in this paper is to further introduce the rather new combined research field of Socioinformatics and Thanatology (the scientific study of death and dying) and to present it with the first results on which requirements to consider for the design of digital tools within ‘Thanatopractice’. By using Participatory Design and the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) in the context of three workshops on socio-technical systems (Online Pastoral Care, Virtual Graveyards, and AI Memory Avatars), we want to sensitize software practitioners to the multidimensional impacts of their products and services in a field, which the participants in the workshops often described as “highly sensitive”.
In diesem Beitrag werden Ergebnisse aus Befragungen der vergangenen insgesamt vier von Corona geprägten Semestern vorgestellt: Insgesamt knapp 3.800 Studierende gaben Auskunft darüber, wie sie die Online-Lehre erlebten – und welche Schlüsse für eine nachhaltige Verankerung von Online-Lehre an Hochschulen daraus gezogen werden können.
For many practitioners, considering sustainability during a software development project is a challenge. The Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) is a tool for thinking through short, medium-and long-term impacts of socio-technical systems on its surrounding environment. While SusAF has been used by several companies, is not widely adopted in industry yet. In this Vision Paper, we discuss the options for extending the reach of SusAF and what it would take to evolve SusAF into a (de-facto) standard
Using 15N‐Ammonium to Characterise and Map Potassium Binding Sites in Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy
(2014)
Trends and Advances in the Characterization of Gas Sensing Materials Based on Semiconducting Oxides
(2018)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations focus on key issues for the transformation of our world towards sustainability. We argue for stronger integration of the SDGs into requirements and software engineering and for the creation of methods and tools that support the analysis of potential effects of software systems on sustainability in general and on SDGs in particular. To demonstrate one way of undertaking this integration, we report on how the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF -- a tool developed by the authors of this paper) can be mapped to the SDGs, allowing the identification of potential effects of software systems on sustainability and on the SDGs. This mapping exercise demonstrates that it is possible for requirements engineers working on a specific system to consider that system's impact with respect to SDGs.
Software engineering, as a central practice of digitalization, needs to become accountable for sustainability. In light of the ecological crises and the tremendous impact of digital systems on reshaping economic and social arrangements - often with negative side-effects - we need a sustainability transformation of the digital transformation. However, this is a complex and long-term task. In this article we combine an analysis of accountability arrangements in software engineering and a model of sustainability transformations to trace how certain dynamics are starting to make software engineering accountable for sustainability in the technological, cultural, economic and governance domains. The article discusses existing approaches for sustainable software engineering and software engineering for sustainability, traces emerging discourses that connect digitalization and sustainability, highlights new digital business models that may support sustainability and shows governance efforts to highlight “green and digital” policy problems. Yet, we argue that these are so far niche dynamics and that a sustainability transformation requires a collective and long-lasting effort to engender systemic changes. The goal should be to create varied accountability arrangements for sustainability in software engineering which is embedded in complex ways in society and economy.
In this paper, we present a study on the utilization of smart medical wearables and the user manuals of such devices. A total of 342 individuals provided input for 18 questions that address user behavior in the investigated context and the connections between various assessments and preferences. The presented work clusters individuals based on their professional relation to user manuals and analyzes the obtained results separately for these groups.
The Present and Future of a Digital Montenegro: Analysis of C-ITS, Agriculture, and Healthcare
(2023)
The absolute value of recruitment-to-inflation ratio does not correlate with the recruited volume
(2023)
Year after year, software engineers celebrate new achievements in the field of AI. At the same time, the question about the impacts of AI on society remains insufficiently answered in terms of a comprehensive technology assessment. This article aims to provide software practitioners with a theoretically grounded and practically tested approach that enables an initial understanding of the potential multidimensional impacts. Subsequently, the results form the basis for discussions on AI software requirements. The approach is based on the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) and Participatory Design. We conducted three workshops on different AI topics: 1. Autonomous Driving, 2. Music Composition, and 3. Memory Avatars. Based on the results of the workshops we conclude that a two-level approach should be adopted: First, a broad one that includes a diverse selection of stakeholders and overall impact analysis. Then, in a second step, specific approaches narrowing down the stakeholders and focusing on one or few impact areas.
Nachhaltigkeit ist für die Gesellschaften unseres Planeten von grundlegender Bedeutung, ebenso wie Software Systeme immer mehr Teil der heutigen Gesellschaften werden. Daher gewinnt Nachhaltigkeit auch immer mehr an Relevanz im Software Engineering und es wurden erste Ansätze entwickelt, um Nachhaltigkeit bei dem Software System Design zu berücksichtigen. Dennoch bleibt es schwer die erst später eintreffenden Auswirkungen von Entscheidungen, die beim System Design getroffen werden, zu erkennen und zu bewerten. Um diese schwierige Aufgabe zu unterstützen, wird in der Keynote die Metapher „Sustainability Debt“ vorgestellt. Die Metapher hilft bei der Identifikation, Dokumentation und Kommunikation von Nachhaltigkeitsfragen im Software Engineering. Sie baut auf der bestehenden Metapher des „Technical Debt“ auf und erweitert diese um vier weitere Dimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit (individuell, sozial, ökologisch, ökonomisch). Neben der Bedeutung der Metapher Sustainability Debt und ihrer Verwendung im Software Engineering wird im Rahmen der Keynote auch darauf eingegangen wie im Software Engineering Entscheidungen getroffen werden. Da Entscheidungen im Rahmen des Sustainability Debts immer bedeuten einen Kompromiss zu schließen zwischen zeitnahen und entfernten Ergebnissen. Bei solchen intertemporalen Entscheidungen werden entfernte Ergebnisse oft als weniger bedeutsam bewertet als zeitnahe, was berücksichtigt werden muss, um eine entsprechende Entscheidungsunterstützung zur Verringerung des Sustainability Debts zu liefern.
Surface integrity in micro-grinding of Ti6Al4V considering the specific micro-grinding energy
(2020)
Dieser Arbeitsbericht bündelt: 1. Nochmals die grundlegenden biologischen Aspekte und Grenzen der räumlichen Wahrnehmung von Menschen, 2. zeigt die historische Entwicklung der stereoskopischen Medien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute auf, 3. präsentiert eigenentwickelte technische Lösungsansätze für eine hochqualitative, stereoskopische HD-Videoproduktion, 4. beschreibt detailliert die Veränderungen, welche sich im gesamten Erstellungsprozess von der Planung bis zur Realisation ergeben und 5. versucht, gezielt Gestaltungsregeln für eine verstärkte, filmische Immersion herauszuarbeiten.
Stereoskope HD-Produktion: Ausgewählte Prozessbetrachtungen von der Aufnahme bis zur Rezeption
(2011)
Statistical Description of SaO2–SpO2 Relationship for Model of Oxygenation in Premature Infants
(2022)
Specification of neck muscle dysfunction through digital image analysis using machine learning
(2022)
Specification of Neck Muscle Dysfunction through Digital Image Analysis Using Machine Learning
(2023)
Context: The Software Engineering process can be seen as a socio-technical activity that involves fulfilling one's role as part of a team. Accordingly, software products and services are the result of a specific collaboration between employees (and other stakeholders). In recent years, sustainability, which Requirements Engineers often paraphrase as the ability of a system to endure, is becoming part of the process and thus the responsibility of Software Engineers (SE) as well. Objectives: This study shines the spotlight on the role of the SE: their self-attribution and their awareness for sustainability. We interviewed 13 SEs to figure out how they perceive their own role and to which extent they implement the topic of sustainability in their daily work. By visualizing these two sides, it is possible to debate changes and their possible paths to benefit the Software Engineering process including sustainability design. Results: A discrepancy between the current role and the ideal role of SEs becomes visible. It is characterized in particular by dwelling on their “classic” or time-honored tasks as an executive force, such as coding. At the same time, they point out the still missing necessity of an interdisciplinary, from communication coined working method. According to our interviewees SEs are inefficiently involved in the design process. They do not sufficiently assume their responsibility for the software and its sustainability impacts.