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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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…

Of digital natives and data-based services – BFH researchers at Connecta 2019

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Swiss Post's Connecta digital conference was a success on Tuesday with over 300 participants and more than 90 speakers from 12 countries. Everyyear,Connecta…

Hackathons as a hot spot for digital skills

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When mixed teams tinker for hours or days until they programme new applications from data, then it is most likely a hackathon. This non-hierarchical…

Does digitalisation make us happier?

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Digitalisation makes many things easier for us in our professional and private lives. Communication is possible in a variety of ways so that…

October-November issue: Digitalisation – Vision of fair participation for all

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In 2011, the US social theorist and economist Jeremy Rifkin drew a positive vision of a "collaborative age" in his book "The Third Industrial…

Digitalization – a great opportunity for women

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Companies need skilled workers for digital transformation and women are especially in demand. However, to date too few girls and young women…

Digitalisation promotes interdisciplinarity

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Many problems of the digital age cannot be solved in one discipline alone, says Prof. Dr. Gerd Folkers in an interview. On the second day of…

Liveblog von TRANSFORM – Digital Skills for the Transformation of Disciplines, Business and Government

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Which digital skills are necessary for the transformation of professional professions and companies? The TRANSFORM conference is a 2-day event…

How women are discriminated against in the labour market

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There is no gender discrimination (yet) in the search for an apprenticeship - but there is a lot of it on the labour market: At the conference…

Fertility Discrimination In Hiring: A Field Experiment

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Part-time jobs are thought to reconcile work and family obligations. However, women with a higher probability of becoming pregnant soon have…

Why interdisciplinarity is the basis for Computional Thinking

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The only living creature that can think is man. But soon computers will do the thinking for us - or will they? Alexander Repenning, professor…