The information system students Daniel Hotze, Hannah Heimpel, Levente Mihalyi, and received an IS scholarship funded by Schwarz IT. The scholarship is awarded by the non-profit association " Die Wirtschaftsinformatik e.V. " and serves to promote young people in the field of IS. For the 2024/25 period, three IS scholarships were funded by Schwarz IT KG at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supporting students of the Information Systems program.

We welcome Chiara Krisam as a new team member and doctoral student researcher at the human-centered systems lab of Prof. Mädche at KIT.  Chiara will join the interdisciplinary PhD program provided by the DFG-funded graduate school KD2School. 

Chiara holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Information Systems from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and wrote her master's thesis on cognitive load-adaptive microbreak interventions in video meeting systems.

Tenure-Track-Professorship (W1) “Information Systems II - Digital Energy Markets” The Tenure-Track-Professorship focuses on the socio-technical understanding and designing of digital energy markets using empirical and design-oriented research methods. [...]information is available here: https://www.pse.kit.edu/english/karriere/joboffer.php?id=164445

Successful PhD defense by Jonas Gunklach Jonas Gunklach successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Guidance for the Effective Use of Business Intelligence and Analytics Systems“ on September 26th 2024.

Prompt engineering is about providing instructions that can be processed by a generative AI model. The WeLearnAI tutor provides a simple and interactive way to help people without the relevant technical background. The world of prompting is introduced not only in an educational but also entertaining way in a playful manner.

Sandra holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Research in Engineering Sciences and a Bachelor of Science degree in Media Informatics from Nuremberg Institute of Technology. Sandra has been involved at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology for the past two years, including serving as a student assistant. In her project work, she has focused on identifying user requirements for user-centered design in material flow within industrial environments, as well as designing usability tests for bidirectional communication between humans and collaborative robots.

Successful PhD defense by Sven Scheu Sven Scheu successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Designing Mobile Assistants for Students’ Self-Regulated Learning and Mental Health“ on August 28th 2024.

Congratulations to (now Dr.) Lara Riefle for a successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis “Adoption and Use of AI-based Systems: The Impact of Individual Character Traits” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

While we are used that products are or can be tailored to individual users (e.g. clothing), AI-based systems still mostly offer a “one-size-fits-all” design. Both initial adoption and continued (re-)use of AI-based services may be enhanced, though, by "tailoring" them to individual character traits of users. Lara has done groundwork in this area, advanced our understanding of behavioral impacts, and demonstrated the capabilities of such approaches in a variety of experiments.

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Hemmer!

Patrick defended his thesis at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on "Complementarity in Human-AI Teams: Conceptualization and Design Support for Effective Decision-Making". A cool contribution to defining and measuring the power of humans and AI joining forces as well as to developing and testing new methods to leverage human-AI teams. So all about "AI together with human" instead of "AI rather than human"....

The “Mensch und Computer 2024” conference will take place in Karlsruhe from September 1st-4th 2024 focusing on the conference theme of “hybrid worlds”. MuC is Europes largest conference on human-computer interaction and offers participants from science and industry a platform for contributions and discussions on innovative forms of interaction between people and digital technology. The UIG symposium program is online on https://www.digitalzentrum-fokus-mensch.de/events/uig-tagung-2024

Digital networking platforms enable an increase in transparency and openness by intensifying the dialogue and networking between people in business, science and society. In business, effective networking with customers in the development and optimization of products and services is becoming increasingly important. In science, the "Open Science" paradigm with practices such as Citizen Science aims to increase the relevance and acceptance of research through interaction with citizens. In society, the pursuit of participatory decision-making processes in politics is becoming increasingly important. 

Researchers Get-Together Recently, the two IISM chairs, led by Prof. Dr. Weinhardt (Information and Market Engineering) and Prof. Dr. Mädche (Human-Centered Systems Lab), hosted a delightful barbecue on our rooftop terrace. With refreshing drinks in hand, colleagues enjoyed a relaxed evening where they exchanged ideas, discussed research, and connected on a more personal level, fostering a sense of community beyond our daily work environment