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Judith Faßbender

Judith Faßbender joined the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society as a doctoral researcher in November 2020. Within the framework of the research project Public Interest AI, funded by the Ministry of Education and Research, she is looking at Public Interest Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a process oriented perspective. She is doing her PhD at the University of St Andrews in the School of Computer Science on Design Patterns for participatory Data Governance.

After her bachelor’s degree in design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle and Design Academy Eindhoven, she received her master’s degree at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen where she majored in cultural and communication sciences with a minor in economics.

Judith is currently a visiting lecturer at KISD for AI and Design. Previously she worked in the cultural sector and at research institutions, as an intern at Die Neue Sammlung at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and as a design and research assistant at Studio Knol in Amsterdam. She wrote her master thesis in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Center for Responsible Research and Innovation in Berlin where she critically examined the integration of civil society actors in deliberative forums on AI Ethics.

  • AI · Society & culture

    Public Interest AI

    The “Public Interest AI” research group is developing an operationalisable analysis procedure that will allow Public Interest to be defined in an AI-specific way...

Journal articles and conference proceedings

Fassbender, J., & Henderson, T. (2024). Participatory to what end? Mapping motivations for participatory approaches in data-driven projects. GoodIT '24: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, 301–305. DOI: 10.1145/3677525.3678675 Publication details

Züger, T., Kuper, F., Fassbender, J., Katzy-Reinshagen, A., Kühnlein, I. (2023). Handling the hype: Implications of AI hype for public interest tech projects. TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 32(3), 34-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.32.3.34 Publication details

Fassbender, J. (2021). Particles of a whole: design patterns for transparent and auditable AI-systems. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings, 272-275. DOI: 10.1145/3460418.3479345 Publication details

Working paper

Züger, T., Faßbender, J., Kuper, F., Nenno, S., Katzy-Reinshagen, A., & Kühnlein, I. (2022). Civic Coding: Grundlagen und empirische Einblicke zur Unterstützung gemeinwohlorientierter KI. Civic Coding Initiative. Publication details

Other publications

Fassbender, J. (2022). Why explainable AI needs such a thing as Society. Digital society blog. Publication details

Asghari, H., Birner, N., Burchardt, A., Dicks, D., Fassbender, J., Feldhus, N., Hewett, F., Hofmann, V., Kettemann, M. C., Schulz, W., Simon, J., Stolberg-Larsen, J., & Züger, T. (2022). What to explain when explaining is difficult. An interdisciplinary primer on XAI and meaningful information in automated decision-making. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details

Züger, T., Katzy-Reinshagen, A., Fassbender, J., Kuper, F., & Kühnlein, I. (2022). Civic Coding. Empirische Erkenntnisse und Empfehlungen zur Unterstützung gemeinwohlorientierter KI. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details

Lectures and presentations

The Who, How and Why of Participation in Databased Projects - A Systematic Literature Review
Big Data Discourses: Communicating, Deliberating, and Imagining Datafication (Session: Reviewing Participatory Dimensions in Data-Centric Projects). Department for Communication and Media Studies. Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany: 01.02.2024 Further information

Judith Faßbender

KI 2023 – 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Session: AI Systems for the Public Interest). Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 26.09.2023 Further information

Judith Faßbender, Freya Hewett, Sami Nenno

Demystifying AI: Typologies to map AI-systems and datasets
Lehrauftrag. KISD - Köln International School of Design. KISD - Köln International School of Design, Cologne, Germany: 18.11.2022

Judith Fassbender

Civic Coding – KI für das Gemeinwohl nutzen
Civic Coding – KI für das Gemeinwohl nutzen. Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales. Impact HUB Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 18.10.2022 Further information

Theresa Züger, Judith Fassbender, Freia Kuper

Design Patterns – Prozessformate für eine verantwortungsvolle Umsetzung von KI-Systemen
KI-Lab. The Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. KI-Lab of the Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Berlin, Germany: 30.09.2022

Judith Fassbender

PhD Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research and Democracy
PhD Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning research and Democracy. University of Tübingen. University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany: 02.04.2022 Further information

Judith Fassbender

Particles of a whole: design patterns for transparent and auditable AI-systems
UbiComp '21: The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Session: Particles of a whole: design patterns for transparent and auditable AI-systems). UbiComp. Online, New York, USA: 25.09.2021 Further information

Judith Faßbender

AI in the public interest: What does this mean and how can be build it?
Gesellschaft für Informatik: #KICamp21. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. Online, Berlin, Germany: 24.02.2021 Further information

Theresa Züger, Hadi Asghari, Freya Hewett, Judith Fassbender, Jakob Stolberg-Larsen

Panels

Datafied Publics: Organising participation in data-based projects
EASST-4S 2024: Making and Doing Transformations. Athena Institute. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 18.07.2024 Further information

Judith Fassbender, Tristan Henderson

KI & Kulturerbe
digiS-Jubiläumsjahreskonferenz 2023. Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung Berlin. Zuse-Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany: 24.05.2023 Further information

Judith Faßbender

Moderation of workshops and panels

AI-systems for the public interest
AoIR2023. Temple University (TU), University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Sonesta Hotel, Philadelphia, USA: 18.10.2023 Further information

Judith Faßbender

Organisation of events

Girls’ Day: Die Wissenschaft in Mädchenhänden
25.04.2024. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Hacker School (National) Further information

Nele Buß, Sarah Spitz, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Sonja Köhne

AI-systems for the public interest
AoIR 2023: AI-systems for the public interest. 18.10.2023. Sonesta Hotel, Philadelphia, USA (International) Further information

Hadi Asghari, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger

Shifting AI Controversies: Sind die KI-Kontroversen, die wir haben, die KI-Kontroversen, die wir brauchen?
Workshop: Shifting AI Controversies. 05.10.2023. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung (ZeMKI, Universität Bremen) (National) Further information

Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger

Data Care - Who is cleaning, sorting and maintaining data?
re:publica 2023. with attending Vip: Roos Hopman, Franziska Peter, Nora Sagel, Freia Kuper. 07.06.2023. re:publica 2023, Berlin, Germany (International) Further information

Judith Faßbender

Girl's Day – Die Wissenschaft in Mädchenhänden
27.04.2023. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Hacker School (National) Further information

Sarah Spitz, Hanna-Sophie Bollmann, Judith Faßbender, Sonja Köhne

Hackathon. Entwicklung von KI-Erklärungsmodellen
From 03.02.2023 to 03.02.2023. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: neuland & gestalten (National) Further information

Daniel Pothmann, Sarah Spitz, Hadi Asghari, Sami Nenno, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger

AI and the Public Interest
13.06.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany (International) Further information

Hadi Asghari, Sami Nenno, Freya Hewett, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger

AI & Society Lab (AI & Society Lab)
Study week of the ZHAW: "Der Mensch im digitalen Zeitalter". 05.05.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: ZHAW (International)

Sami Nenno, Judith Faßbender, Theresa Züger

Digitaler Salon: Cookies make you lose control
25.08.2021. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Deutschland (National) Further information

Judith Faßbender, Natasha Vukajlovic, Christian Grauvogel

Participation as expert

Shifting AI Controversies: Sind die KI-Kontroversen, die wir haben, die KI-Kontroversen, die wir brauchen? Workshop: Shifting AI Controversies Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society. Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany: 05.10.2023 Further information

Freya Hewett

Media appearances

Gemeinwohl: Wie man KI dazu bringt, etwas Gutes zu tun (12.07.2023). Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Position

Researcher: AI & Society Lab

RESEARCH PROGRAMME / GROUP