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Social Virtual Reality : Person perception, cognition, and interpersonal behavior in iVR (Part I)
No full textPartizipation von Menschen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen im Kontext der Technikentwicklung und Technikaneignung
Get PDFDas Kapitel thematisiert die digitale Benachteiligung von Menschen mit Demenz und intellektuellen Behinderungen in der Technikentwicklung und Technikaneignung. Projekte wie DIDEM und Teilhabe Digital demonstrieren, wie durch aktive Einbindung der Zielgruppen Technologien entwickelt werden, die ihre Lebensqualität und Selbstbestimmung fördern. Dabei spielen ethische Prinzipien eine zentrale Rolle. Partizipative Ansätze unterstützen die aktive Einbindung der Zielgruppen und fördern die Technikaneignung. Das Kapitel betont, dass intensive Feldarbeit und iterative Entwicklungsprozesse essenziell sind, um nachhaltige und nutzer:innenorientierte technologische Lösungen zu entwickeln
AUTOMED 2024 : Automatisierungstechnische Verfahren für die Medizin, 11. - 13. September 2024, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany - Proceedings
Get PDFBridging Academic Software Sustainability Design With Corporate Business Planning
No full textSoftware systems have become deeply intertwined with both our personal lives and our professional lives, blurring the demarcation between the colloquially referred ‘real world’ and ‘digital world’. Consequently, software systems wield unintended influences on nontechnical systems, encompassing the social, environmental, and economic dimensions. These three dimensions are commonly subsumed under the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), which serves as a conceptualisation of the term ‘sustainability’. Sustainability is not a passing trend but an elementary requirement for today’s and tomorrow’s society that confronts software practitioners with a new spectrum of tasks and responsibilities.
This dissertation is aimed at bridging the gap between academia and industry within software sustainability design. A comparison of these two sides reveals different levels of awareness regarding the impacts of software products and services, as well as a different level of theoretical knowledge and practical approaches to set and achieve sustainability goals. To fill this gap, particular reference was made to the preliminary work of the signatories of the Karlskrona Manifesto for Sustainability Design, who developed the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF). The SusAF is a tool that supports software practitioners in identifying the multi-dimensional impacts of software so that they can be considered requirements during the design phase. Employing the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), this dissertation extends the SusAF, tailoring it to the specific needs of software companies. Through a sequence of iterative case studies, an artefact named the Business-oriented Extension of the Sustainability Awareness Framework (BE-SusAF) has emerged.
The BE-SusAF contributes mainly through embedding four principles into industrial software design approaches, summarised as the four Is: 1) Interface positions for the orchestration of the artefact, 2) Integration of external stakeholders in the requirements elicitation process, 3) Implementation of the SusAF results within business design models, and 4) Incorporation of organisational conditions. While the artefact enables software companies to meet sustainability challenges, the research around it contributes in general to the transfer from academia to industry within software sustainability, a nexus that is gaining significance due to the progressing digital transformation
Overview of biofunctionalization and activation methods of Polyetheretherketone for obtaining an osteosynthetic implant surface
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Creation of a reporting system for supplier analysis in the sector of sustainable sourcing – Demonstrated with the example of Kendrion N.V.
No full textSustainable sourcing strategies to prevent environmental and human rights risks
along the supply chain have become increasingly relevant for global operating
companies. The aim of this thesis is to provide the theoretical framework and
practical implementation of a sustainable sourcing risk management system
anchored in the German supply chain law and based on defined criteria. These
criteria include requirements in the area of Natural Capital and Materials that are important for the company Kendrion N.V. In total, three research questions have been defined: What are the required criteria of Natural Capital and Materials the suppliers should comply with? How should these be implemented for Kendrion and its supply chain? And what are the remaining challenges?
In detail, the requirement criteria contain the topics of renewable energy, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, waste management, reuse and recycling, as well as current regulations of the European Union.
The practical implementation demonstrates the implementation at Kendrion N.V. To assess risks along the supply chain, a questionnaire is developed that serves as a basis for the evaluation process. In addition, this thesis includes the concept creation of a Power BI report that can be used as a methodology for the risk management analysis. The Power BI system presented at the end of this thesis will be used as a template for Kendrion to evaluate the results of the supplier questionnaire as part of the risk management system. However, some challenges need to be addressed: The proportion of suppliers who have signed the Code of Conduct, the reliability of the supplier data provided, and the verification of supplier contacts