The KD2School Adaptive Systems Talks are an open-to-the-public Christmas event hosted by the KD2School. This year’s topic is:

Biosignals to Bytes – Human Cognition Meets AI Evolution

Featuring talks from Prof. Kopp (University of Bielefeld), Prof. Wilson (University of Nottingham), and Dr. Debus (KIT), a panel discussion, poster slam, and interactive demonstrations.

We’d like to invite researchers, students, and everyone else who is interested to an engaging and thought-provoking evening in the cozy atmosphere of TRIANGEL Open Space (Kaiserstr. 93, Karlsruhe) on December 2, 2024, from 17:00 to 22:00.

The paper co-authored by Julia Seitz, Ivo Benke, and Alexander Maedche is published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and willl be presented at CSCW 2024 in Costa Rica between November 9-13 2024.  In their experimental study, the authors analyzed the ambivalent nature of the self-view - a mirrored image of oneself in the video call using self-report and eye-tracking data.  Their findings reveal the impact of having a self-image present versus an absent self-image on the user's cognitive load and control. The authors provide an in-depth analysis of gaze patterns on the self-view and  highlight three distinct user groups that differ in their interaction with the self-view and its impact on the user group. These findings form the basis for pathways of adaptive self-view designs, proposed in the paper’s discussion.

On November 5, 2024, Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller-Putz gave a lecture entitled "Electroencephalography - A universal tool for neuroscientific research" as part of the Decision & Design Speaker Series. In his talk, he gave an insight into the impressive progress in the field of brain-computer interface research in the recent years. The Design & Design Speaker Series is offered as part of the KIT Future Field III project " Decision-Making in Hybrid Adaptive Systems for Better Work and Life - An Open Science Approach " in close cooperation with the DFG-funded Graduate School KD2School.

New Job Opportunity: Working Student Position in Collaborative Research Project with EnBW AG Additionally, you will have the opportunity to develop and optimize dashboards for data visualization and analysis.

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.