Press release
Inaugural lectures by Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß and Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing
To mark their appointments, Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß, Professor of Applied Data Science, and Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing, part-time Professor of Usability and User Experience, will introduce themselves to the university public as part of their inaugural lectures.
Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß: Shaping digitalisation: Data and user skills in the information sciences
Objective or subjective? Opinion or fact? True or false? – Challenges and solutions for the (partially) automated detection of fake news
Fake news jeopardises democratic processes and the speed of dissemination has increased significantly in the course of digital change. The lecture looks at the tasks, challenges and solutions for supporting the detection of fake news through automated processes and discusses how the effectiveness of systems can be made comparable.
Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing: UX and requirements management: Functionality vs. user experience?
Both the functionality offered and the quality of user interaction determine the success of digital applications and services. Current approaches to user-centred requirements elicitation and product development, such as human-centred design or design thinking, focus on these aspects in different ways. The presentation will show how this can influence the collaboration between those responsible for usability, user experience and requirements management as well as the role that users play in the processes.
About the people
Prof. Dr. Julia Maria Struß studied International Information Management (IIM) with a focus on Applied Information Science at the University of Hildesheim. After working for three years as an online marketing manager at yamando AG, she worked from 2008 to
2012 as a lecturer for special tasks and from 2012 to 2016 as a research assistant at the University of Hildesheim at the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology, where she also completed her doctorate in 2016. She then worked as a research assistant at the Technical Information Library (TIB) – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library in the Competence Centre for Non-Textual Materials until 2018. From 2018 to September 2020, Julia Maria Struß was deputy professor of Information Retrieval and Data Management at the Department of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. Since October 2020, she has been Professor of Applied Data Science at the Department of Information Science.
Prof. Dr. Ben Heuwing studied International Information Management (IIM) at the University of Hildesheim, specialising in Applied Information Science. From 2008 to 2017, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology at the University of Hildesheim. His research focussed on user experience, accessibility, usability for web and mobile in SMEs, usability evaluation methods, digital humanities and text mining. In 2015, Ben Heuwing completed his doctorate on the topic of usability results as a knowledge resource in organisations. From 2017 to 2022, he worked as a UX consultant and business analyst at ]init[ AG, Berlin. He also worked as a lecturer at the Institute for Information Science and Language Technology at the University of Hildesheim until 2022. In 2022, he became Unit Manager at ]init[ AG, Berlin, where he is responsible for topics such as administrative digitisation, process automation and low code. Since May 2022, he has been a part-time professor of usability and user experience at the Department of Information Sciences.
Inaugural lecture
When: 24/04/2023, 6.00 pm
Place: House D/Room 011
Online: Zoom-Link
Meeting ID: 664 1430 1200
The inaugural lecture is open to the public. Interested parties are welcome. Following the lecture, there will be a small reception in the foyer of House D.
