DITES | Members of the Research Centre

Prof. Dr. Isabel Zorn (Director Research Center)

Research areas: participatory design of technology, digital technologies in media education and social work, e-learning concepts, technology assessment from a media educational perspective

Institute of Media Research and Media Education | IMM

Prof. Dr. Ing. Stefan Bente

Research areas: software and enterprise architectures for complex, socio-technical systems, e.g. the field of e-Government; slim and agile architecture management for such systems; collaborative approaches
Areas of teaching: software engineering

Institute of Computer Science

Prof. Dr. Babette Brinkmann

Research areas: holistic management and new working environment
Areas of teaching: organizational and group psychology

Institute for Gender Studies | IFG

Prof. Dr. Amelie Duckwitz

Research Area: Social Media, User Experience and Transcultural Communication

Institute of Information Science

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Carmen Kaminsky

Research areas: applied ethics; normative theories of social work
Areas of teaching: ethics; social philosophy; science of social work

Institute for Research in Social Work | IRIS

Prof. Dr. Christian Kohls

Research areas: socio-technical design patterns (e-learning, educational patterns, creative thinking), community design and participatory design methods; application development for group innovation processes (‘extreme collaboration‘)
Areas of Teaching: socio-technical systems

Institute of Computer Science | INF

Prof. Dr. Hans-Günter Lindner

Research areas: system-theoretical analysis of human factors in business processes (“humanBI”), which encompasses cybernetics, business analytics, human resources und process-simulation to measure intangible values and to structurally shape and design measurable service and software products

Schmalenbach Institute for Economic Science | WI

Prof. Birgit Mager

Research areas: hybrid value creation (initiation, design and implementation of cross-corporate innovation projects); behavioural change in service design systems via design; taxonomies of co-creation processes

Köln International School of Design | KISD

Prof. Dr. Petra Werner

Research areas: editorial concepts and strategies for digital media; usability; media usage and reception

Institute for Information Science | IWS

Baptiste Egelhaaf, M.A.

Research Areas: interdisciplinary research in the field of social work and digitalisation.

Prof. Dr. Claus Richter

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam

Prof. Dr. Rolf Schwartmann

Research and teaching areas: national and international media law, with a specific emphasis on data protection law as well as constitutional frameworks pertaining to intellectual property

Schmalenbach Institute for Economic Science | WI

Prof. Dr. Udo Seelmeyer

Research areas: addressee, profession, and organisational research; use of information and communication technologies in social work; evaluation studies, implementation of quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method research designs

Former director of the research center

Dr. Scarlet La Shea Schaffrath

VDI/VDE-IT GmbH | Scientific Consultant

Dr. Philip Roth

Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
Institute of Media Research and Media Education | IMM

Anna Schelling (M.A.) Expert project management GPM-IPMA

Institute of Media Research and Media Education | IMM