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Description

Patrick Halbach is a research assistant at the chair for Communication Science and Human-Computer Interaction Center. He has studied the interdisciplinary course of study Technical Communication with fundamentals of Computer Science. In his master thesis he examined the influence of social media and recommender systems on the opinion formation in the digital society.

Since August 2018 he is part of the junior research group Digital maturity and focuses currently on the influence of structures and pecularities of social networks in the internet on opinion formation.

 

Publications

Title	Author(s)
Investigating Key Factors for Social Network Evolution and Opinion Dynamics in an Agent-Based Simulation Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Halbach, Patrick Burbach, Laura Belavadi, Poornima Nakayama, Johannes Plettenberg, Nils Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
Netlogo vs. Julia: Evaluating Different Options for the Simulation of Opinion Dynamics Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Burbach, Laura Belavadi, Poornima Halbach, Patrick Kojan, Lilian Plettenberg, Nils Nakayama, Johannes Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
Filter Bubbles and Content Diversity? An Agent-Based Modeling Approach Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Belavadi, Poornima Burbach, Laura Halbach, Patrick Nakayama, Johannes Plettenberg, Nils Ziefle, Martina Valdez, André Calero
User Behavior and Awareness of Filter Bubbles in Social Media Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2020)	Plettenberg, Nils Nakayama, Johannes Belavadi, Poornima Halbach, Patrick Burbach, Laura Calero Valdez, André Ziefle, Martina
Opinion Formation on the Internet: The Influence of Personality, Network Structure, and Content on Sharing Messages Online Journal Article (2020)	Burbach, Laura Halbach, Patrick Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
Bubble Trouble: Strategies Against Filter Bubbles in Online Social Networks Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Burbach, Laura Halbach, Patrick Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
Trust in Cyber Security Recommendations Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Nakayama, Johannes Plettenberg, Nils Halbach, Patrick Burbach, Laura Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, Andre
Follow Me: The impact of opinion majorities in social networks and the role of digital maturity Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Halbach, Patrick Burbach, Laura Ziefle, Martina Calero-Valdez, André
Would I Lie to You? : How Users Evaluate Faked Online Content Depending on Its Publication Type Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Halbach, Patrick Burbach, Laura Nakayama, Johannes Plettenberg, Nils Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
'Hey, Siri', 'Ok, Google', 'Alexa' : Acceptance-Relevant Factors of Virtual Voice-Assistants Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Burbach, Laura Halbach, Patrick Plettenberg, Nils Nakayama, Johannes Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
Who Shares Fake News in Online Social Networks? An agent-based model of different personality models and behaviors in social networks Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2019)	Burbach, Laura Halbach, Patrick Ziefle, Martina Calero Valdez, André
A Change Is Gonna Come - Effects of User Factors on the Acceptance of Ambient Assisted Living Contribution to a book, Contribution to a conference proceedings (2018)	Halbach, Patrick Himmel, Simon Offermann-van Heek, Julia Ziefle, Martina