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The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
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Trust-me
Trust-me is a security technology for Android smartphones and tablets. Several virtual smartphones can be installed on one device and will function as isolated environments that can be used simultaneously both in private and professional environments and for application-specific purposes.
It has been developed by Bundesdruckerei in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC) and the Design Research Lab.
The focus of the DRLab was to incorporate the user’s perspective into the developing process in order to understand the main interactions and therefore improve the interface design of the system. After an extensive period of user research, ideation, conception and reevaluation, two interaction concepts were prototyped.