Judith Faßbender
Judith Faßbender is an associated researcher in the AI & Society Lab at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. 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 & culturePublic 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 ReviewBig 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 informationJudith Faßbender, Freya Hewett, Sami Nenno
Demystifying AI: Typologies to map AI-systems and datasetsLehrauftrag. 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 nutzenCivic 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-SystemenKI-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 DemocracyPhD 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-systemsUbiComp '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 projectsEASST-4S 2024: Making and Doing Transformations. Athena Institute. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands: 18.07.2024 Further information
Judith Fassbender, Tristan Henderson
KI & KulturerbedigiS-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 interestAoIR2023. 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 Mädchenhänden25.04.2024. 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 interestAoIR 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 Mädchenhänden27.04.2023. 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-ErklärungsmodellenFrom 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 Interest13.06.2022. 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 control25.08.2021. 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 informationFreya Hewett
Media appearances
Gemeinwohl: Wie man KI dazu bringt, etwas Gutes zu tun (12.07.2023). Süddeutsche Zeitung
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