Exdigit Research
In 2022, the University of Salzburg founded the new Faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences (DAS) and has combined its competencies in the digital field such as computer science, data science, human-computer interaction and geoinformatics at the Itzling site and strengthened them with a materials science component.
The EXDIGIT project is intended to give the University of Salzburg and its youngest faculty an even stronger presence in European and national excellence programs or other high-level research initiatives. The special feature here is the close inter-institutional cooperation with Salzburg Research and other partners, such as the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences or the PMU, which is anchored in the project.
Project
EXDIGIT
Funding
Duration
January 1st, 2021 to August 31st, 2027
Budget
12.719.832 Euro
Project partner
Project goals
- Creation and establishment of a research and development platform with international visibility for future-oriented interdisciplinary digital topics.
- Building bridges between the interdisciplinary interfaces of the University of Salzburg with partners within the Salzburg research landscape.
- Creation of three bridge professorships
- Targeted and efficient closing of gaps in knowledge and research chains at the location.
- Positioning the University of Salzburg and the DAS faculty as a leading institution for digital sciences
- Increasing the attractiveness in the international competition for researchers and students as well as for specialists and corporate partners in digital fields
Interactive Intelligent Systems and Recommender Systems
Main focus
Interactive intelligent systems are computational systems designed to dynamically interact with humans, and vice versa. Often, such systems are powered by artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to respond to user inputs, learn from interactions, and improve their performance over time.
In our research group, we integrate research on intelligent technologies, the interaction of humans with intelligent systems, and their interplay. In this field, our key expertise lies in recommender systems and human-AI interaction in its broader sense.
In our research group, we investigate the full spectrum of recommender systems and human-AI interaction: from (i) investigating humans’ needs of how such systems function to (ii) measuring the implications of these systems. This also includes (iii) evaluating their algorithmic performance, analyzing biases, or studying trust issues, and (iv) improving algorithmic approaches to better align with those needs.
Space & Place LAB
Main focus
Places are among the units we use to structure our lives. We use them to create narratives, and they are considered central to geographical explanation. They are represented in the various media, such as in texts, photographies, paintings, and flim; and we share them socially in may cases. Yet, relatively little is known about what makes information about places and how to handle such type of information.
The Space & Place LAB at the University of Salzburg, Austria, focusses on questions related to a conceptual understanding of place and corresponding information. Our interdisciplinary approach targets an understandings that does justice to the complexity inherent to places.
More about us: Space and Place LAB
PEPSys
Main focus
The Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems Group at Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PEPSys @ PLUS), led by Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Pallas, was established in April 2024 as part of a larger initiative to foster Excellence in Digital Sciences and Interdisciplinary Technologies within the faculty of Digital and Analytical Sciences.
Our overall mission is to build bridges between the design and engineering of cutting-edge enterprise- and society-grade systems on the one and the legal and policy-related aspects shaping such systems on the other hand. Originally rooted in the domain of Privacy Engineering and currently heading out towards further areas of particular societal relevance, we design and prototypically implement novel approaches for aligning real-world systems with actual legal and policy-related givens. Besides, we also work towards a proper understanding of technical concepts and givens in the regulatory discourse. For a more comprehensive depiction, see our research statement and our projects section.
Our group members’ competencies and research activities are shaped by a unique combinination of technical and policy-related aspects, leading to perspectives and contributions that consciously break disciplinary boundaries. For more information, see the individual member profiles as well as our various publications in technical and non-technical outlets.
For always up-to-date activities of the PEPSys group, see what’s going on via Twitter / X (#PEPSys) or Linkedin (#PEPSys).
