Prof. Dr. Thorsten Jungmann (last updated 2026-11-04)
Relates to FTS-05 Future trends in technology and society and how to evaluate sources
Task
In phase 2, you work with ILIAS, with an artificial intelligence (AI) service and with Zotero. In this exercise, you learn how to use them for your question. Do tasks 1 and 2 in the exercise time of FTS-05 and tasks 3 to 6 on your own until FTS-06, one after the other. If you get stuck, open the step-by-step guide below the task – and help each other.
1 Join the group of your future trend
Sign up for your future trend by joining its group in the ILIAS course of this module. Each group has four places; if the group of your trend is full, choose another trend. If you are alone in your trend at the end of the exercise time, join a trend group that still has free places.
Step by step
- Open the course of this module: https://www.hsbi.de/elearning/goto.php/crs/1700726
- If ILIAS asks you to, log in with your HSBI user name and password.
- In the course, open the group of your trend, for example ‘Trend 07: Cybersecurity of operational technology’.
- Click ‘Beitreten’ (in English: ‘Join’).
- From now on, the group appears on your dashboard under ‘Meine Kurse und Gruppen’ (‘My courses and groups’).
2 Ask to join the Zotero group FTS-resources-2
Ask to join my Zotero group, in which I provide the source packages of phase 2.
Step by step
- Log in at https://www.zotero.org with your Zotero account.
- Open https://www.zotero.org/groups/fts-resources-2 and click ‘Join’.
- Your request now waits for my approval (‘Membership Pending’).
- As soon as I have approved it, the group library appears in the left pane of Zotero after the next synchronization.
3 Put your question to your AI service twice and save both answers
Put your question twice to the AI service that is specified for your trend: word for word, with the same service and the same model and mode, in a new chat. If your service can remember earlier chats, ask both times in a temporary chat without memory, where it offers one. Save both complete answers with the sources they name. Do this only after you have written down your own answer in the session. Note the date, the name of the service and, where the service shows them, the model and the mode, for example an instant or a thinking mode. You find your AI service in the table in FTS-05, 3.2.
Step by step
- Open the address of your AI service. If the service asks you to, sign in or register.
- If registering is an obstacle for you, use the chat service with artificial intelligence of HSBI (HSBIKI) instead: open HSBIKI Chat at https://www.hsbi.de/dvz/hsbiki/chat and log in with your HSBI user name and password.
- If your service offers a temporary chat without memory, start one. Type your question word for word into the input field and send it.
- Wait until the answer is complete.
- Select the whole answer with the mouse, including the sources it names, and copy it (Windows: Ctrl+C; Mac: Cmd+C).
- Open a new document in Word and paste the answer (Windows: Ctrl+V; Mac: Cmd+V).
- If the service lists its sources separately, copy this list as well and paste it below the answer.
- Above the answer, note the date, the name of the service and, where the service shows them, the model and the mode.
- Start a new chat in the same service, again a temporary chat if you started one in step 3. Keep the same model and mode; if you cannot choose them, leave them as they are and note this.
- Type your question into the input field again, word for word, and send it.
- Wait until the answer is complete. Copy it with the sources it names and paste it below the first answer in your document, as in steps 5 to 7.
- Above the second answer, note the same details as in step 8.
- Save the document in your folder for this module, under a name that you will find again, for example
ChatGPT 2026-11-07 - Trend 7.docx.
4 Check whether the sources exist
Check for each source that the AI service names in your two answers whether it exists and whether it says what the AI service claims. Note the result for each source: exists; exists, but with errors in its details; or not found. If the AI service names no source, note this as your result.
Step by step
- If the source is a link to a web page, open the link. Note whether the page exists and shows the title, the author and the date that the AI service gives.
- If the source has a digital object identifier (DOI), open https://doi.org/ followed by the DOI, for example https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.08.279. You get to the page of the publication that has this DOI; if the DOI does not exist, doi.org shows ‘DOI Not Found’.
- Search for the title of the source in quotation marks in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com
- Search for a book in the library catalogue as well: https://fhb-bielefeld.digibib.net/search/katalog
- Compare the authors, the year, the title and the journal or the publisher with the details given by the AI service. Note each difference.
- If you are not on campus, connect to the virtual private network (VPN) of HSBI.
- If the source exists, open its full text.
- Look for the passage that the AI service refers to, with the search function (Windows: Ctrl+F; Mac: Cmd+F). Note whether the source says what the AI service claims: confirmed, confirmed in part or not confirmed.
⚠ On Springer Nature Link, do not use ‘Log in via an institution’: HSBI is not listed there, and ‘Bielefeld University’ is a different university. Access only works via campus Wi-Fi or VPN.
5 Compare the two answers
Compare your two answers and note the result. On your poster, you quote what you examine from both answers and, in the column for the AI answer, you report what the comparison has shown (FTS-05, 2.5).
Step by step
- Open the document with your two answers.
- Does the answer to the question stay the same? Note in one sentence each what the first and the second answer say about your question.
- Do the figures stay the same? List every figure that appears in only one answer or differs between the two.
- Does the service name the same sources? List the sources that appear in only one answer.
- Note what else appears in only one of the two answers.
- Mark the passages that you want to quote and examine on your poster, from both answers.
⚠ Two answers that agree can both be wrong: you still check them against the sources.
6 Read a text with the tools and note a statement in Zotero
Read a text from the source package of your pair with the tools from FTS-05, chapter 2, and note in Zotero a statement that you want to use – in your own words, with the short reference and the page – together with your answers to the questions of the tools. Your pair agrees with the other pair who takes which source package: one pair uses the collection ending in -A, the other the collection ending in -B, for example ‘Phase2-Trend07-A’ and ‘Phase2-Trend07-B’ for trend 7. If your trend group has only two or three members, divide yourselves so that each of the two source packages is taken by at least one of you. The number is the number of the section on your trend in FTS-05, chapter 4. In the group library FTS-resources-2, you can read, but not change anything. Therefore, you work with a copy in your own library, ‘My Library’.
Step by step
- In Zotero, open the group library FTS-resources-2 in the left pane and select the source package of your pair.
- Drag the entry of the text that you want to read onto ‘My Library’ in the left pane. Zotero copies it into your own library.
- Open ‘My Library’ and select the copied entry. If a file in the Portable Document Format (PDF) is attached to it, continue with step 9.
- Copy the ISBN, the DOI or the web address of the text from the pane on the right.
- If you are not on campus, connect to the VPN of HSBI.
- For a book, search for the ISBN in the library catalogue https://fhb-bielefeld.digibib.net/search/katalog and follow the link to the full text. For an article, open https://doi.org/ followed by the DOI. For a web page, open its address.
- Download the full text as a PDF and save it in your folder for this module. If a web page offers no PDF, save it as a PDF with the print function of your browser (Windows: Ctrl+P; Mac: Cmd+P).
- Drag the PDF from your folder onto the copied entry in the list of items. Zotero attaches the PDF to the entry.
- Double-click the PDF below the entry to open it in Zotero. Read the text in passes, as described in FTS-02, 5.4.
- Select a passage with a statement that you want to use. In the popup that appears, choose a colour: Zotero highlights the passage.
- Go back to your library, right-click the entry in the list of items and choose ‘Add Note from Annotations’. Zotero creates a note with your highlights and links back to the pages of the PDF.
- Below each highlight in the note, write the statement in your own words, with the short reference and the page, for example: ‘According to <author> (<year>, p. <page>), …’
- At the top of the note, write what type of source it is and who checked it before it appeared.
- Below that, write who wrote it and who paid for it. Look at the affiliations of the authors on the first page and at the sections on funding and on the conflict of interest at the end.
- Below that, write what exactly was measured, compared with what, for which region and which period and under which assumptions, and what was left out.
⚠ On Springer Nature Link, do not use ‘Log in via an institution’: HSBI is not listed there, and ‘Bielefeld University’ is a different university. Access only works via campus Wi-Fi or VPN.