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Judith Faßbender

Judith Faßbender is an associated researcher in the Societal Values, Transformation and AI research focus. 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.

Completed projects

  • 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...

Publications

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

Activities

Lectures and presentations (8)

01.02.2024 · Judith Faßbender

Presentation at „Big Data Discourses: Communicating, Deliberating, and Imagining Datafication”

Big Data Discourses: Communicating, Deliberating, and Imagining Datafication. Department for Communication and Media Studies. Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.

26.09.2023 · Judith Faßbender, Freya Hewett, Sami Nenno

Workshop “AI Systems for the Public Interest“

KI 2023 – 46th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

18.11.2022 · Judith Fassbender

Demystifying AI: Typologies to map AI-systems and datasets

Lehrauftrag. KISD - Köln International School of Design. KISD - Köln International School of Design, Cologne, Germany.

18.10.2022 · Theresa Züger, Judith Fassbender, Freia Kuper

Civic Coding Fachveranstaltung

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

30.09.2022 · Judith Fassbender

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.

02.04.2022 · 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.

25.09.2021 · 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. UbiComp. Online, New York, USA.

24.02.2021 · Theresa Züger, Hadi Asghari, Freya Hewett, Judith Fassbender, Jakob Stolberg-Larsen

KICamp21 Webinar: AI in the public interest: What does this mean and how can we build it?

Gesellschaft für Informatik: #KICamp21. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.. Online, Berlin, Germany.

Panels (3)

19.11.2024 · Judith Faßbender

Panel @ D³ Kongress 2024

D³ Kongress 2024. Allianz Vielfältige Demokratie, Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, Berlin Institut für Partizipation. Fernsehstudio ALEX Kosmos, Berlin, Germany.

18.07.2024 · Judith Fassbender, Tristan Henderson

Organising participation in data-based projects

EASST/4S 2024: Making and Doing Transformations. European Association for the Study of Science and Technology and the Society for Social Studies of Science. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

24.05.2023 · Judith Faßbender

KI & Kulturerbe

digiS-Jubiläumsjahreskonferenz 2023. Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Digitalisierung Berlin. Zuse-Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Moderation of workshops and panels (1)

18.10.2023 · Judith Faßbender

Workshop “AI-systems for the public interest”

AoIR2023. Temple University (TU), University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Sonesta Hotel, Philadelphia, USA.

Organisation of events (9)
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 (1)

05.10.2023 · Freya Hewett

Workshop: Shifting AI Controversies

Workshop: Shifting AI Controversies. Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society. Humboldt Institut for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany.

Judith Faßbender Profilbild

Position

Associated Researcher: Societal Values, Transformation and AI

Research focus

Societal Values, Transformation and Artificial Intelligence

Our research critically analyses socio-technical transformation processes. It centres on the question of how digital technologies can be more closely aligned with societal goals – particularly with regard to sustainability, the public interest and democratic values.