22.10.2025

Intelligent environments emerge where machines start to think with us

RC Trust and the Faculty of Computer Science welcome Professor Sven Mayer. Inaugural lecture on 5 November 2025.

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• Staff
• Environmetrics

15.10.2025

Harnessing past climate signals to build trust in tomorrow’s decisions

Junior Professor Dr. Nils Weitzel opens a new Environmetrics chapter at RC Trust and TU Dortmund University, where rigorous statistics meets climate…

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• News
• Network
• Psychological Aspects of Human-Algorithm-Interaction

10.10.2025

AI in your team: Will it become your new favourite colleague or your new favourite tool?

An interdisciplinary women-in-AI working group, funded as a CAIS Working Group and co-led by Dr. Greta Ontrup, Dr. Magdalena Wischnewski, and Dr.…

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• News
• Staff
• Trustworthy Human Language Technologies

10.10.2025

Welcome, Sabine Wehnert - turning legal AI into something you can actually trust

Since October, Sabine Wehnert has joined Ivan Habernal’s TrustHLT group at the RC Trust, UA Ruhr, as a postdoctoral researcher - working at the…

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• News
• Talk
• Event

08.10.2025

Doing the Right Thing: How Science Can Build Trustworthy Evidence for Policymaking

During her visit to the RC Trust Graduate School, Prof. Elizabeth Tipton from Northwestern University explored how research can better serve society —…

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• News
• Publication
• Human-Centered Hardware Security

06.10.2025

Same internet, different worlds: New evidence reveals significant differences in how people understand and protect their digital security across Western and non-Western regions

Published at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (Seattle, August 13–15, 2025), this study—co-authored by researchers at RC Trust—examines how people…

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• Staff
• Inclusive Technology and Collective Engagement
• Data Science
• Psychology
• Artificial Intelligence

06.10.2025

Research that transforms the lived experiences of people with disabilities and other marginalised groups into inclusive technologies

Giulia Barbareschi joins the UDE as RC Trust Professor for Inclusive Technology and Collective Engagement.

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19.09.2025

RC Trust at ECML PKDD 2025

From 15–19 September in Porto, RC Trust showcases research that makes AI more reliable, explainable, and usable in practice.

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17.09.2025

Delegation to Artificial Intelligence can increase dishonest behavior

Nils Köbis and an international research team warn that people request dishonest behavior from AI systems, and that AI systems are prone to comply.

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• Talk
• Network

12.09.2025

Welcoming Prof. Elizabeth Tipton: Advancing Data Science and Interdisciplinary Research

Internationally renowned statistician Prof. Elizabeth Tipton visits the RC Trust Graduate School to foster collaboration, exchange ideas, and inspire…

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