Are you interested in humane AI-based process automation, specifically regarding the energy sector? We would like to invite you to the half-time event of the MeKIDI project, where we will present first results from all 3 experimental spaces. The online event will take place on October 26th, 10 AM to 2PM in our virtual venue. Participation in the event is free of charge – just sign up here.

The research groups of Professors Mädche, Satzger, Weinhardt (IISM) and Sunyaev (AIFB) will be represented with a total of 10 papers at the "International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)", which will take place in Austin, Texas in December 2021. Congratulations to all authors!

Ivo Benke successfully defended on October 4th 2021 his PhD thesis titled “Emotional Competence Development Systems for Remote Work Collaboration“.

He convinced the examination committee Prof. Dr. Alexander Mädche, Prof. Dr. Petra Nieken, Prof. Dr. Anat Rafaeli (Technion Israel) and Prof. Dr. Oliver Stein (not on the photo) with his research. We congratulate Ivo Benke for his successful defense!

The virtual “Usability in Germany” (UIG) conference took place on 23.09.2021 under the motto " How to practice UX in medium-sized businesses sector " with and for over 250 UX experts and SME representatives from science and practice.

The research group of Prof. Mädche was present at the “Mensch und Computer” (MuC) conference last week with three accepted conference papers. It was a great pleasure to present and discuss our research insights.

The end of the semester also marks the successful completion of this year’s Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Capstone project, which was conducted virtually as part of the DIS master lecture. 18 students worked on a real-world challenge provided by our industry partner EnBW.

As part of this cooperation the promotion bike KALine is equipped with a mobile experimental kiosk from our "Wir- Forschen.Digital" initiative. Citizens of the city of Karlsruhe can find out more about the initiative, take part in small studies on the subject of well-being and register.

Join our research group as a student assistant (Bachelor or Master) to support our exciting research activities in the field of design interactive intelligent systems. Further information is available here.

We are happy to announce that we have received EXIST funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Two of our recently graduated Ph.D. students, Dr. Jasper Feine and Dr. Tim Rietz, submitted their proposal for ‘Respeak’ together with Prof. Alexander Mädche.

More information will be available soon via www.respeak.io.

In this interview with INQA (“Initiative Neue Qualität der Arbeit”, initiative for new quality of work), project manager Prof. Dr. Alexander Mädche elaborates the project vision and answers questions about the experimental spaces.

Further information about the project and the initiative can be found on the MeKIDI Homepage or here.

The research group of Prof. Mädche was present at the 16th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) with two accepted papers

In cooperation between the Institute of Management (Prof. Dr. Petra Nieken) and the Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (Prof. Dr. Alexander Maedche) a joint PhD position focusing on “eye-based coordination in virtual teams” within KD2School is offered.