Christian Roth

Christian Roth, Rahmin Bender-Salazar, Breanne Pitt

This paper explores how Interactive Digital Narratives (IDNs) can support learners in developing the critical literacies needed to address complex societal challenges, so-called wicked problems, such as climate change, pandemics, and social inequality. While digital technologies offer broad access to narratives and data, they also contribute to misinformation and the oversimplification of interconnected issues. IDNs enable learners to navigate nonlinear, interactive stories, fostering deeper understanding and engagement. We introduce Systemic Learning IDNs: interactive narrative experiences explicitly designed to help learners explore and reflect on complex systems and interdependencies. To guide their creation and use, we propose the CLASS framework, a structured model that integrates systems thinking, design thinking, and storytelling. This transdisciplinary approach supports learners in developing curiosity, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving. Focusing on the classroom context, we apply CLASS to two cases, one commercial narrative simulation and one educational prototype, offering a comparative analysis and practical recommendations for future design and implementation. By combining narrative, systems mapping, and participatory design, this paper highlights how IDNs can become powerful tools for transformative, systems-oriented learning in an increasingly complex world.

David Harborth, Dominik Herrmann, Stefan Köpsell et al.

The AN.ON-Next project aims to integrate privacy-enhancing technologies into the internet's infrastructure and establish them in the consumer mass market. The technologies in focus include a basis protection at internet service provider level, an improved overlay network-based protection and a concept for privacy protection in the emerging 5G mobile network. A crucial success factor will be the viable adjustment and development of standards, business models and pricing strategies for those new technologies.

Alexandra Cetto, Michael Netter, Günther Pernul et al.

Currently, many users of Social Network Sites are insufficiently aware of who can see their shared personal items. Nonetheless, most approaches focus on enhancing privacy in Social Networks through improved privacy settings, neglecting the fact that privacy awareness is a prerequisite for privacy control. Social Network users first need to know about privacy issues before being able to make adjustments. In this paper, we introduce Friend Inspector, a serious game that allows its users to playfully increase their privacy awareness on Facebook. Since its launch, Friend Inspector has attracted a significant number of visitors, emphasising the need for better tools to understand privacy settings on Social Networks.