D Helbing

Datos Biográficos

ID223459
NOMBRED Helbing
NOMBRESD
APELLIDOHelbing
FIRMAHELBING D
AFILIACIONESETH Zurich
ORCID0000-0002-9898-0101
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS56
TOTAL DE CITAS61
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1994
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Semantic urban elements

    Open AccessMatias Quintana, Chenyi Cai et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2026

    Architecture, engineering, and construction have increasingly integrated automated tools and digital approaches for urban analysis and design. Many of these approaches are tailored towards either urban Design or urban Science, despite both being central to our understanding of cities. The separation between these two core aspects of urban development introduces multidisciplinary challenges when addressing the consequences of urban phenomena. We p…

  • Co-designing AI systems with value-sensitive citizen science

    Open AccessSachit Mahajan, D HelbingARTICLEAI & Society2026

    As AI systems increasingly influence everyday life, integrating diverse community values is both ethically essential and practically urgent. This paper presents Value-Sensitive Citizen Science (VSCS)—a systematic framework that combines Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) with citizen science to support meaningful public participation in AI development. VSCS addresses gaps in the existing approaches by integrating culturally grounded methods and cogniti…

  • A replica for our democracies? On using digital twins to enhance deliberative democracy

    Open AccessClaudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sánchez–vaquerizo et al.ARTICLEAI & Society2026

  • Revisiting big data optimism

    Open AccessSachit Mahajan, D HelbingARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2026Referencias: 7

    This paper critically examines the growing use of big data algorithms and AI in science, society, and public policy. While these tools are often introduced with the goal of increasing efficiency, the results do not always lead to greater empowerment or fairness for individuals or communities. Persistent issues such as bias, measurement error, and over-reliance on prediction can undermine success and produce outcomes that are neither fair nor tran…

  • Spatial econometrics to estimate traffic reduction by transforming office space into housing and other land uses

    Open AccessJavier Argota Sánchez–vaquerizo, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo et al.ARTICLECities2025Referencias: 4

  • How voting rules impact legitimacy

    Open AccessCarina I Hausladen, Regula Hänggli et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    Collective action is essential for addressing the grand challenges of our time. However, for such action to be successful, decision-making processes must be perceived as legitimate. In this study, we investigate the legitimacy of different voting methods. Using a pre-registered human subject experiment, 120 participants cast their votes using four voting methods: majority voting, combined approval voting, range voting, and the modified Borda coun…

  • Why converging technologies need converging international regulation

    Open AccessD Helbing, Marcello IencaARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2024

    Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, gene editing, nanotechnology, neurotechnology and robotics, which were originally unrelated or separated, are becoming more closely integrated. Consequently, the boundaries between the physical-biological and the cyber-digital worlds are no longer well defined. We argue that this technological convergence has fundamental implications for individuals and societies. Conventional domain-specific…

  • Ethics of smart cities and smart societies

    Open AccessAndrej Zwitter, D HelbingARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2024

  • Democratizing air

    Open AccessSachit Mahajan, Rosy Mondardini et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2024

    Indoor air quality (IAQ) is crucial for public health, yet many remain unaware of indoor pollutants. Although Citizen Science has enhanced outdoor air quality understanding, its application to IAQ remains underexplored. This study introduces a new co-creation methodology that addresses key limitations in existing IAQ monitoring practices by integrating value-sensitive design principles and a ‘facilitated emergence’ paradigm. Through three co-crea…

  • Democracy by Design

    Open AccessD Helbing, Sachit Mahajan et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2022

  • Translating citizen-generated air quality data into evidence for shaping policy

    Open AccessSachit Mahajan, Ming-Kuang Chung et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2022

    The practice of participatory sensing for environment monitoring has rapidly evolved over the years. There has been a steady growth of citizen-based air quality monitoring projects that aim to build partnerships, knowledge-sharing platforms, awareness, and ultimately resilience to issues related to air quality. Whilst citizen science has reshaped air quality research by bringing a fresh perspective on democratizing science for the public good, th…

  • Participatory resilience

    Open AccessSachit Mahajan, Carina I Hausladen et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2022

    In the context of urbanization and a growing population, cities and citizens are becoming more exposed and vulnerable to social and environmental changes, ranging from natural disasters like earthquakes and floods to uncertainties caused by issues related to climate change and complex social dynamics or even pandemics. There have been many debates about implementing resilience thinking that allow cities and communities to prepare for possible str…

  • Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessDidier Wernli, Mia Clausin et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The current global systemic crisis reveals how globalised societies are unprepared to face a pandemic. Beyond the dramatic loss of human life, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered widespread disturbances in health, social, economic, environmental and governance systems in many countries across the world. Resilience describes the capacities of natural and human systems to prevent, react to and recover from shocks. Societal resilience to the current…

  • Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help Covid-19 containment

    Open AccessMirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko et al.ARTICLEEthics and Information Technology2021

    The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the “phase 2” of the pandemic, when lockdown and other restriction measures are progressively withdrawn, in order to avoid or minimize contagion resurgence. For this purpose, contact-tracing apps are being proposed for large scale adoption by many countries. A centralized approach, where data sensed by…

  • Random Deviations Improve Micro-Macro Predictions

    Open AccessMichael Mäs, D HelbingARTICLESociological Methods & Research2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 49

    Many sociological theories make critically different macropredictions when their microassumptions are implemented stochastically rather than deterministically. Deviations from individuals' behavioral patterns described by microtheories can spark cascades that change macrooutcomes, even when deviations are rare and random. With two experiments, we empirically tested whether macrophenomena can be critically shaped by random deviations. Ninety-six p…

  • Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

    Open AccessD Helbing, Bruno S Frey et al.CHAPTERTowards Digital Enlightenment2019

  • Science of science

    Open AccessSanto Fortunato, Carl T Bergstrom et al.ARTICLEScience2018

    The whys and wherefores of SciSci The science of science (SciSci) is based on a transdisciplinary approach that uses large data sets to study the mechanisms underlying the doing of science—from the choice of a research problem to career trajectories and progress within a field. In a Review, Fortunato et al. explain that the underlying rationale is that with a deeper understanding of the precursors of impactful science, it will be possible to deve…

  • The rippling dynamics of valenced messages in naturalistic youth chat

    Open AccessSeth Frey, Karsten Donnay et al.ARTICLEBehavior Research Methods2018

  • Communication power struggles on social media

    Open AccessViktoria Spaiser, Thomas Chadefaux et al.ARTICLEJournal of Information Technology…2017Citada por: 13Referencias: 19

    In 2011–2012 Russia experienced a wave of mass protests surrounding the Duma and presidential elections. The protests, however, faded shortly after the second election. We study the Russian political discourse on Twitter during this period and the main actors involved: the pro-government camp, the opposition, and the general public. We analyze around 700,000 Twitter messages and investigate the social networks of the most active Twitter users. Ou…

  • Sustained cooperation by running away from bad behavior

    Open AccessC Efferson, Carlos P Roca et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2016

    For cooperation to evolve, some mechanism must limit the rate at which cooperators are exposed to defectors. Only then can the advantages of mutual cooperation outweigh the costs of being exploited. Although researchers widely agree on this, they disagree intensely about which evolutionary mechanisms can explain the extraordinary cooperation exhibited by humans. Much of the controversy follows from disagreements about the informational regularity…

  • Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society

    D HelbingBOOKThinking Ahead - Essays on Big…2015

  • Big Data Society

    Open AccessD HelbingCHAPTERThinking Ahead - Essays on Big…2015

  • The Automation of Society is Next

    Open AccessD HelbingARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2015

  • Group Segregation and Urban Violence

    Open AccessRavi Bhavnani, Karsten Donnay et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Political…2014Citada por: 38Referencias: 55

    How does segregation shape intergroup violence in contested urban spaces? Should nominal rivals be kept separate or instead more closely integrated? We develop an empirically grounded agent‐based model to understand the sources and patterns of violence in urban areas, employing Jerusalem as a demonstration case and seeding our model with microlevel, geocoded data on settlement patterns. An optimal set of parameters is selected to best fit the obs…

  • Globally networked risks and how to respond

    Open AccessD HelbingARTICLENature2013