Technische Hochschule Augsburg

Persistent Street Network and Changing Tourism-Related Functional Space: A Case Study of Pingyao, China, 2009–2023

The rise of tourism in historical cities has become a widely observed global phenomenon. As both urban heritage and channels of movement, streets influence the spatial distribution of tourism-related functions. It is important to understand how this influence has evolved over tim...

Digital Anti-Forensics Research: The Next 10 Years

Anti-forensics refers to techniques designed to obstruct forensic analysis. While such methods are increasingly used by cybercriminals, they also provide valuable insights for researchers by revealing weaknesses in forensic tools and thereby contributing to their robustness. Desp...

The effects of ICAP learning activities on learning outcomes

Background The Interactive-Constructive-Active-Passive (ICAP) framework makes assumptions about the relationships between observable types of learning activities (passive, active, constructive, interactive), cognitive processes, and learning outcomes. Yet, rigorous empirical stud...

Buying big numbers: Users’ experiences with purchased followers, views, and likes

Abstract This paper investigates how discourses surrounding the purchase of followers are constructed and how they shape social legitimacy within platform-mediated public spheres. Purchased engagement metrics are conceptualized as elements of a sociotechnical dispositif embedded...

Growing Up With Social Robots: Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Anthropological Perspectives on Social Robots, AI Companions, and Child and Adolescent Development

We discuss the increasing presence of social robots (SRs) and artificial intelligence (AI) companions in the contemporary ecology of youth development and the role of parasocial relationships created by youth with these technical artifacts, emphasizing the links between parasocia...

Correlation of [ 68 Ga]Ga-RAYZ-8009 PET/CT Uptake with Immunohistochemical Glypican-3 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Proof-of-Target Study

Glypican-3, a cell-surface proteoglycan, is overexpressed in most hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). Recently, the glypican-3–targeted PET tracer [68Ga]Ga-RAYZ-8009 was shown to enable noninvasive detection of HCC. This retrospective analysis evaluates the correlation between tumo...

State of development of regional hospice and palliative care networks in Germany and a descriptive comparison of the role of coordination: results of an online survey using a maturity model

Abstract Background Regional hospice and palliative care networks (RHPCNs) aim to establish frameworks for care-management level collaboration between end-of-life care providers within specific regions. Since 2022, political support for RHPCNs in Germany has been bolstered by a n...

Explainable Autonomous Robots: Taxonomy, State, and Trends — An Implementation-driven Mapping Study

As autonomous robots increasingly operate in dynamic environments shared with humans, explaining their decisions and behaviors is essential for trust, transparency, and effective human-robot interaction. Although eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has received substantial...

Agents Through the Ages

Abstract Over several decades, research on socially interactive agents has transformed human–machine interaction, evolving from early script-based systems to today’s generative, multimodal agents. Tracing this development through the ages, this article reflects on major conceptua...

What constitutes successful collaborative conjecturing-and-proving processes? Relations between beginning undergraduates’ resources, conjecturing-and-proving processes, and performance

Abstract Students’ difficulties with mathematical argumentation, conjecturing, and proving, as well as with collaborating effectively, have long been documented in the literature. While there is some research on what constitutes successful proving processes, systematic investigat...