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ATHENE researcher defends her doctoral thesis

30/08/2024

In the team of ATHENE Prof. Christian Reuter at the TU Darmstadt, Katrin Hartwig successfully completed her doctorate. Her’s thesis Navigating Misinformation: User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Indicator-Based Digital Interventions focuses on user-centred digital misinformation interventions, such as smartphone apps and browser plug-ins, to help users manage misinformation in various forms.

She employs a human-centred design approach to analyse and categorise existing interventions systematically, as well as to design new interventions and evaluate their effectiveness through user studies. Key findings include the identification of valuable and comprehensible indicators for different content modalities (text, audio, video), designing and testing a simulated TikTok app, and recognising both the potential and limitations of these interventions, such as users‘ blind trust in them. The research also offers insights into the transferability of these findings to cybersecurity contexts.

Heartfelt congratulations to "Dr. Katrin Hartwig!

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