Digitalisation
„The world is undergoing a digital transformation. We need answers to fundamental questions about digitalisation. The WWTF connects our community –and not just with money!“
Recent WWTF Projects
Young people against hate-speech
Young people, in particular, are often confronted with "hate speech". Digital platforms often react by deleting, blocking and banning. “Digital moral courage” in online discourse is seen as a promising means and alternative model for reducing hate speech. The goal of the project of the team around Ulrike Zartler is to strengthen this new form of moral courage.
Improving Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) has become an integral part of our smartphones. The team around Hannes Kaufmann deals with novel guidance systems in large and complex buildings, where it is important to present users with meaningful virtual content that is overlaid with real objects. The concepts and methods they have developed may be applied the near future in various areas, such as AR navigation.
Talking Charts
Whether in the daily newspaper, in online media, or in professional journals, visualizations are often used to make data more understandable. In daily topics ranging from COVID-19 to the climate crisis, diagrams and charts have become a ubiquitous means of communicating important messages. The team around Torsten Möller explores human comprehension and sheds light on how creators and viewers alike understand messages (and apparently conveyed content), engage with and finally decode them.