Transdisciplinary

The successful development of digital solutions almost always requires the cooperation of different disciplines. Designers, software developers and application specialists are necessary.

In addition, ethnographers, economists, lawyers, mathematicians and others are often needed, whereby several expertises are usually required in each discipline. Good solution design requires, for example, knowledge of good practice examples, the ability to co-create with users, user experience and accessibility expertise, a talent for durable design, heuristics for dealing with complexity, writing usable requirements specifications and ethical reflection. At the BFH Centre Digital Society, we do not rely on interfaces between disciplines, but work together freely in a transdisciplinary way. The methods used result from the practical question.

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Extending the lifetime of mobile devices to reduce their environmental impact: a glimpse on the project LIFESAVING

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Mobile Internet-enabled devices (MIEDs) such as smartphones, laptops, and tablets have become a crucial part of our lives. However, the environmental…

Sufficiency: the missing ingredient for sustainable digitalisation

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Digitalisation is often depicted as a silver bullet to address sustainability issues, due to its potential to decarbonise the global economy…

Sustainability in the digital space

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Sustainability, already a multi-layered topic in itself, becomes a multi-dimensional consideration of IT against the backdrop of the digital…

Sufficiency – An approach towards a sustainable (digital) future

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In environmental research, sufficiency is seen as a major pillar of sustainability. However, up to this day, sufficiency has been widely absent…

Raise awareness of the environmental consequences of the use of connected screens

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New media uses have a big impact on the consumption of energy resources. Two-thirds of the world's electricity is generated by burning fossil…

Using instead of owning – how sharing pays off for the environment

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In Western consumer society, the importance of sharing has steadily declined since the second half of the 20th century. With the start of mass…

Switching Digital in Teaching: A Short Experience Report from a 1-Day Online Teaching Event

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Switching teaching to digital can be quite easy and still provide an excellent learning opportunity for the students: To let our students in…
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Applying ICT knowledge to ICT business

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Software engineering practices have changed the way we look at organizations. It has become widely accepted that agile practices improve the…

Unleashing Usability Superpowers to Make the World a Better Place

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ICT systems that suffer from minor, and sometimes major, usability problems are an all-too-common experience. This is hard to understand given…

About the future of the Internet

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Researchers have been working on improvements since the Internet was established. The future architecture SCION  is also constantly being improved,…

Data, data, nothing but data. What do we do with it?

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According to an IDC study, the total amount of data generated annually worldwide will increase from 33 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes in 2025.…

About the good life and the happy life

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Digitalisation makes a lot of things easier in our lives. But what really makes us happy in the digital age is not something digital, says happiness…