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.

Then apply now at KD2School! 12 PhD and 2 Post-Doc positions are available in Karlsruhe, Bremen and Giessen.

More at: https://kd2school.info

The paper Designing Attentive Information Dashboards by Peyman Toreini, Moritz Langner, Alexander Maedche, Stefan Morana, and Tobias Vogel has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). JAIS is the flagship journal of the Association for Information Systems and publishes highest quality research in the field of information systems. JAIS promotes innovative, interesting, and rigorously developed conceptual and empirical contributions and encourages theory based multi- or inter-disciplinary research.

Immersive und virtuelle Räume spielen in unserem sozialen Miteinander gerade in Pandemiezeiten eine immer größere Rolle! Aber wer gestaltet eigentlich die neuen digitalen Welten, in denen wir uns bewegen? Das zkm zusammen mit dem IISM laden im Rahmen des Projektes digilog@bw zu einem interaktiven Workshop ein.

In the project Kern, funded by the German Ministry of Work and Social Affairs, we designed AI-based competence assistance systems for the future of work in cooperation with Campusjaeger GmbH, B. Braun Melsungen GmbH, SAP SE, and TÜV Rheinland.

The results of the project were presented an online event on May 19th 2021. Further information about the project and its results are available here.

Alexander Maedche is coordinating in cooperation with Mark Ackerman, Claudia Mueller, Gerhard Schwabe, and Volker Wulf the Special Issue Home Office: Working from a Private Place in the Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE) journal.

The aim of the cross-location research alliance ForDigital between Karlsruhe and Mannheim was to better understand the mechanisms and effects of the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the economy, society and individuals and, on this basis, to design innovative ICT solutions.

Further information is available here.

In cooperation with our partner CAS Software AG we are offering a research assistant position in the field of digital citizen science with a specific focus on leveraging user-centered and participatory development processes for building digital citizen participation systems. Further information is available here.

The KIT Center for Information – Systems – Technologies (KCIST) has established a new research topic titled “Information Systems and Digital Ecosystems“.

Further information about KCIST and the new topic is available here.

We are happy to announce that the paper “Chatbot-based Emotion Management for Distributed Teams: A Participatory Design Study” by Ivo Benke, Michael T. Knierim, and Alexander Maedche has been accepted at the CSCW 2020 and was presented at the conference virtually. The CSCW is the premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, and communities.

As part of the AI innovation competition of Baden-Württemberg the research project „WorkLifeSens“ focusing on delivering physio-adaptive assistance systems for the future workplace is funded.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Benedikt Morschheuser, former member of the Research Group Information Systems & Service Design (ISSD), as assistant professor for business informatics at the School of Business, Economics, and Society at FAU University. We congratulate him warmly and wish him all the best for his new position.