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The German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended funding for the KD²School for Designing Adaptive Systems for Economic Decision-Making for five additional years.
IT systems often influence economic decisions made during online shopping, on job platforms, or in financial apps. Since 2021, researchers have been investigating exactly what this interaction looks like in the Karlsruhe Decision and Design School (KD²School) research program. The KD²School research training group brings together a multidisciplinary team of experts from information systems, economics, psychology, and computer science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Bremen, and the University of Oldenburg. Their goal is to make changes to currently static IT systems so that they adapt to their users. An example of this would be an app that could record how stressed users are and whether they are already familiar with the app’s content and reduce or expand users’ options to make decisions accordingly.
As a publicly funded research program, the KD²School opens up a field that has so far been dominated by economically or politically motivated actors. This research focuses, among other things, on technical and neuroscientific cross-cutting topics, individual everyday decisions, team decisions in the digital world of work, group decisions in online participation, and the limits of adaptive systems.
Collaboration Between the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg at the Interface of Neuroscience and Computer Science
Professor Alexander Mädche, director of the Human-Centered Systems Lab at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, serves as the spokesperson for the KD2School. The University of Bremen has been a key partner in the research training group since its inception, with Tanja Schultz, a cognitive systems professor, serving as co-spokesperson. The University of Oldenburg (Principal Investigator: Christiane Thiel, biological psychology professor) will be added in the new funding phase. One objective of the KD²School is to work together at the interface between neuroscience and computer science, using MRI scanners to analyze the brain activity of two people during an economic interaction. From this, they would like to gain knowledge about inter-brain synchronicity and the neural mechanisms during social interaction and perception.
The cooperation in the KD²School complements the diverse collaborations between the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg. The two universities work closely together in areas such as marine, polar, and climate research; computer science; health sciences; and energy research. In January 2025, they founded the Northwest Alliance, and in November, they submitted an application entitled “Northwest Alliance: Connecting for Tomorrow” to the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) to become a University Excellence Consortium.
Tanja Schultz
Professor of Cognitive Systems
Faculty of Mathematics / Computer Science
University of Bremen
Phone: +49 421 218-64270
Email: tanja.schultz@uni-bremen.de
https://kd2school.info/
https://northwest-alliance.de/en/
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