Reseach Topics

Currently, my research topics include technology assessment and foresight of information and communication technologies, especially ubiquitous computing, digital products, and digital rights management.
The research is partly based on the analysis of the economic aspects of information.

Current Activities

• Co-organisation of the explorative workshop "Software als Institution", Karlsruhe, 12 Dec 2008, a workshop of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [workshop website] (in German)
• Seminar "Ökonomie, Innovation und Politik der Informationstechnologien", teaching in summer term 2008 [seminar webpage]
• Project "PerCoMed - Pervasive Computing in der vernetzten medizinischen Versorgung" (Pervasive Computing in Networked Medical Care)  [project website]
• Digital rights management and consumer aspects
• Socio-Economic challenges of e-science and grid computing

Past Projects at ITAS

• Project coordination of INDICARE - The Informed Dialogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe, Project funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society, eContent Programme [project website]
• Project FISTERA - Thematic Network on Foresight on Information Society Technologies in the European Research Area, Competitive Action under the European FP V IST programme, coordinated by the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technology Studies [project website]
• Mapping the European Knowledge Base of Socio-Economic Impact Studies of Information Society Technologies (EKB-SEIS) [project website]
• Project "Electronic Commerce" of the Office for Technology Assessment of the German Parliament (TAB) in cooperation with ITAS  [project website]
• Project "Online Bookselling" [project website]