The Dark Pattern Detection Project (Dapde) is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists and legal scholars who are researching the phenomenon of dark patterns. The project aims to make dark patterns technically visible to users and to show legal regulation possibilities.
Professor Michael Gertz heads the Database Systems Group at the Institute for Computer Science at the University of Heidelberg. The research focus of his strongly interdisciplinary group is on methods and applications in the fields of text analysis, data mining, machine learning and analysis of complex networks.
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Professor Mario Martini holds the Chair of Public Administrative, Administrative Law and European Law at the University of Speyer and heads the program area "Transformation of the state in the digial age". His research focuses in particular on internet, data protection, media, and telecommunications law, the connection between law and economics, and the topics Open Government and AI.
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Inken Kramme is a research associate at the German Research Institute for Public Administration and is particularly interested in regulatory developments in the context of digitization and the protection of minors in the digital environment.
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Paul Seeliger is a research associate in the program area "Transformation of the state in the digital age" at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer. He is particularly interested in data protection law and the interface between law and design.
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Nicolas Reuter is a PhD student in the Database Systems Research Group at the Institute of Computer Science at Heidelberg University. He is doing his PhD and research on automated detection of dark patterns and other patterns on web pages.
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Philipp Freuer is a research assistant at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer and scientific assistant and doctoral student at the Philipps University Marburg. He is interested in the interfaces between civil and public law, in particular german and european competition law and its effects on individual consumers.
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Luise Mayer is a research assistant at the Research Institute for Public Administration. She is interested in addressing legal issues related to digitization.
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Katharina Buchsbaum is a student assistant at the German Intitute for Public Administration Speyer. She is particularly interested in the interaction of law with other disciplines. For her, this encompasses among others topics like digitalisation or equal opprtunities for everyone.
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Ulrike Urbanek is a student assistant at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer and she is particularly interested in data protection law and the interface between technology and law.
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Anton Kamke is a research associate at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer. He is particularly interested in European and international law and law in the context of digitization.
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Sabine Schittek is a research assistant at the German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer. She is particularly interested in European constitutional law, European legal history, and legal aspects of digitalization.
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