The interdisciplinary network "Human Factor in Digital Transformation" pursues three declared goals:
A portrait of HFDT
Digital "information and communication technologies" (ICT/ICT) not only determine our working world, but also our everyday lives and have found their way into every last corner of our private sphere. They open up unimagined new possibilities, often make our activities easier, speed up exchanges between people and potentially raise them to a global level. At the same time, these developments are also associated with risks. Because these technologies are central to human interaction, economic activity and democratic action, they can affect privacy, freedom of expression, participation in the democratic process, innovation and the open flow of information.
Colorful research and projects
The HFDT research network brings together research perspectives from the fields of digital humanities, business analytics, economics, education, philosophy, psychology, law, sociology, systems science, theology and business informatics and deals with central topics of digital transformation both in the area of teaching and in various projects in different compositions.
Events by and with HFDT
The need for intensive interdisciplinary engagement with the "digital transformation", its possibilities and consequences is beyond doubt. In almost all areas of life, human activities and processes are being shifted to virtual spaces. The availability of enormous amounts of data of all kinds, the representation of human culture in binary formalizations and the use of data in a wide variety of ways are leading to far-reaching changes in our social and individual lives. The research network HFDT aims to scientifically accompany the digital transformation from an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective, to align it with European fundamental values and rights and to interweave it with the rich European cultural heritage.
The doctoral program/consortium of the Doctoral Academy Graz
The "digital transformation" with its possibilities and consequences requires intensive interdisciplinary scientific support. The aim of the DP HFDT is to meet this requirement at the level of dissertation supervision by facilitating an in-depth interdisciplinary exchange on relevant topics between doctoral students and lecturers. The DP deals with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the humanities and social sciences ("ICT in SSH"; Digital Humanities; computer-aided research methods), and the need to consider the "human factor" in the use, development and implementation of ICT products, services and processes ("SSH in ICT").
