DESRIST 2025 Programme
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Day 1 – June 2, 2025
| 7:30 am – 7:30 pm | Registration desk open |
| 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Room: | Doctoral Consortium |
| 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Room: | Industry Workshop: Building context specific AI solutions using Design Science Chairs: Maurice McNaughton, Brian Donnellan Keynote speakers: Prof. Alan Hevner (Design Science and Industry) Prof . Sameer Verma (AI for Business) |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room: | Doctoral Consortium |
| 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Room: | Industry Workshop Continues Working with AI (Prof. Sameer Verma) |
| 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Room | DESRIST 2025 Welcome Reception |
Day 2 – June 3, 2025
| 8:30 am – 10:00 am Room: | Conference Opening Welcome Remarks Keynote Speaker 1: Is Design Science Research Any Good? Dr. Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Room: | Responsible AI Design I Session Chair: Arin Brahma Interactive Explainable Intelligent Systems: Requirements, Design Principles, and Prototypical Implementation** Pauline Speckmann, Mario Nadj and Christian Janiesch ** nominated for Vint Cerf best student paper award Reflective Design Theorizing with User Interviews: A Case Study for AI Energy Labels Alexander van der Staay, Raphael Fischer, Magdalena Wischnewski, Katharina Poitz and Christian Janiesch Enabling Responsible LLM-Based Grading in Higher Education – Design Guidelines and a Reproducible Data Preparation Pipeline Arnold F. Arz von Straussenburg, Anna Wolters, Timon Aldenhoff and Dennis M. Riehle GenAI-CoP: A Reusable Co-Creation Process for Identifying Generative AI Agents Philipp Reinhard, Mahei Manhai Li, Sarah Oeste-Reiß and Ulrich Bretschneider |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Room: | Entrepreneurship and Innovation I Session Chair: Christoph Seckler Venture Design Research: Description and Illustration Andreas Nilsson, Johan Magnusson and Tero Paivarinta A successful finance-sector case of Digital Transformation: Eliciting four core design principles Jan Pries-Heje and Ann-Dorte Nielsen Designing an Effective Augmented Reality Interaction Technique to Develop AR Instructions Kay Hönemann, Björn Konopka and Manuel Wiesche Sustainability in Supermodernity: Design Principles for Innovating Non-Places Leonhard Gebhardt and Konstantin Remke |
| 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Emerging DSR Methods & Novel Applications I Session Chair: Robert Winter Reframing the Problem Space: A Layered Model for Coevolving Problems and Solutions** Hanna Buyssens and Stijn Viaene ** nominated for Vint Cerf best student paper award On the Role of Vision in Design Science Research Bijan Khosrawi-Rad, Susanne Robra-Bissantz, Timo Strohmann and Jan Vom Brocke Exploring Action Design Research as a Reflective Practice for Sense-Giving and Sense-Making of Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach Amir Haj-Bolouri, Hanna Buyssens and Stijn Viaene The Relevance of Design Features: From Abstract Knowledge to Practical Implementation Timo Strohmann and Bijan Khosrawi-Rad |
| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Room: | DSR Processes & Strategies Session Chair: A Process for Corporates to Launch New Ventures under Uncertainty: An Echeloned DSR approach** Joachim Vandaele, Christoph Seckler and René Mauer ** nominated for Herb Simon best paper award Past Lessons, Future Directions: An Author-Informed Review of Design Science Research in Information Systems** Sebastian Reiners, Gregor Kipping, Fabian Tingelhoff and Michael Gau ** nominated for Herb Simon best paper award Enacting Creativity Rigorously in Design Science Research: Towards a Typology of Creativity Strategies Marc Emmanuel Kratz, Christoph Seckler and Jan Vom Brocke Design of a Flexible Role Concept to determine Digital Government Competence Requirements Michael Koddebusch and Jörg Becker |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Room: | Data-Driven Design Science Session Chair: Wallace Chipdza Designing Grammar-Guided LLM Outputs for Open Data Integration – A DSR Approach to IoT Data Platforms** Dennis M. Riehle, Arnold F. Arz von Straussenburg and Timon Aldenhoff ** nominated for Herb Simon best paper award Designing Geospatial Tools to Address Maternal and Infant Health Disparities: Analyzing Low-Birth Weight Patterns Katja Crusius, Maria Assumpta Komugabe, Paniz Herrera and Samir Chatterjee A Design of Sensible Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems to Understand User Intent** Yanjing Ren, Tengteng Ma, Shivendu Shivendu and Alan Hevner ** nominated for Herb Simon best paper award LLM-Augmentation for Idea Evaluation: Developing a Reference Model for Evaluation Pipelines** Philipp Gordetzki ** nominated for Vint Cerf best student paper award |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Room: | DSR in Education Session Chair: Ricardo Anderson Designing Knowledge for Conversational AI Applications: A Bloom’s Taxonomy Perspective Tim Christopher Lange and Ricarda Schlimbach Designing Digital Infrastructures for Trans-situated Learning Jonas Sjöström Artifact Validity in Design Science Research (DSR): A Comparative Analysis of Three Influential Frameworks Sylvana Kroop Designing a Large Language Model Based Conversational Agent for Language Acquisition Nicolas Neis, Philipp Spleth, Cecilie Kudlek, Rüdiger Zarnekow and Axel Winkelmann The EU AI Act: Implications for Ethical AI in Education Mirka Saarela, Sachini Gunasekara and Ayaz Karimov |
| 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Room: | DESRIST Business Meeting (by Invitation Only) |
| 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Room: | Conference Dinner & Gala Celebrations |
Day 3 – June 4, 2025
| 8:30 am – 10:00 am Room: | Health IT – Wellbeing & Ageing Session Chair: Srikar Velichety From Stress to Success: Designing a Diagnosis and Intervention Platform for Knowledge Workers** Falco Korn, Erik Karger, Frederik Ahlemann and Alexandar Schkolski ** nominated for Vint Cerf best student paper award Designing for Trust: Integrating Self-Referencing in Large Language Model-Based Health Coaching Sophia Meywirth, Andreas Janson and Matthias Söllner Towards Digital Pause: A Framework for Promoting Well-Being in Adults Through Conscious Unplugging Tahereh Miari, Zelal Kutby, Javier Aguilar and Samir Chatterjee |
| 8:30 am – 10:00 am Room: | Emerging DSR Methods & AI Applications II Session Chair: Robert Winter GALEA – Leveraging Generative Agents in Artifact Evaluation Nicolas Prat, John Lalor and Ahmed Abbasi AI-based Design Science Research: An Exploratory Framework for Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Design Science Research Michael Gau, Felix Kretzer, Alexander Maedche and Jan Vom Brocke Toward Procedural AI Governance: Designing a Phase Model for AI Development Projects Michael Weber, Martin Biller, Timo Phillip Böttcher, Andreas Hein and Helmut Krcmar Designing a Cybersecurity Compliance Index Framework to Identify and Evaluate Trends and Strategies that Support Organizational Decision-Making Juanita Dawson and Chinazunwa Uwaoma |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:00 am – 12:30 am Room: | Entrepreneurship and Innovation II Session Chair: Matthias Sollner Structured Creativity: Enhancing Business Model Innovation with Generative AI Christoph Scheiber, Timo Phillip Böttcher, Erwin Fielt, Marek Kowalkiewicz, Michael Weber and Helmut Krcmar Empowering SMEs through a Co-Opetition Platform: A Design Science Research Approach to Hyperautomation and Resilience Lisa Straub, Christian Zeiß, Maximilian Greiner, Axel Winkelmann and Ulrike Lechner Dare to Prepare: Designing a Negotiation Preparation Card Deck Eva-Maria Zahn, Ernestine Dickhaut and Matthias Söllner Making the Invisible Count: A Design Science Research Approach to Predictive Modelling of Electric Vehicle Workplace Charging Loads Marcel Seger, Christoph Clement and Marc-Fabian Körner |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Room: | Sustainable Development & Environmental Solutions Session Chair: Gunjan Mansingh Ensuring Usefulness: Socio-technical Design Principles for Digital Product Passports Kim Krüger, Timo Böttcher and Helmut Krcmar. Towards a Persuasive Decision Support Interface for the Sustainable Use of Dynamic Electricity Tariffs Lorenzo Matthias Burcheri, Hanna Marxen, Jyoti Kumari and Gilbert Fridgen Anchoring Collaboration: Design Principles for Stakeholder Management in Ports Tim Brée, Frederik Ahlemann, Fabian Lohmar, Klaus Krumme, Jan-Hendrik Kamlage, Marius Rogall and Erik Karger Emergency Management: Designing mobile Application to support Citizens during Storm Floods Marten Borchers, Enrico Milutzki, Alexander Bode, Valeria Magdych, Martin Semmann and Eva Bittner |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Room: | Keynote Speaker 2 Prof. Michael Taylor, Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology The University of the West Indies, Jamaica |
| 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room: | Poster Presentation Guiding Large Language Models Through Knowledge Graph Integration: A Study on ICD-11 Code Generation Florian Leiser, Benedikt Wolf, Simon Warsinsky and Ali Sunyaev How to design a Hypnosis Intervention Framework for entrepreneurial burnout: An eDSR approach Mona Ghazi and Christoph Seckler Ethical Considerations in Design Science Research for Artificial Intelligence-Based Credit Business Christian Daase, Dominic Strube and Klaus Turowski Design Principles for Conversational Agents in the Construction Industry Janis Büse, Daniel Tebernum, Philip Stahmann and Christian Janiesch What exactly does a Data Trustee actually do? Specifying Subfunctions of a Data Trustee in Data Ecosystems Sven Kurrle, Julian Hoffmann and Patrick Weber From Reviews to Insights: Concept-based Variations of Textual Reviews for Explanations in Recommender Systems Anna-Lena Glatzel, Maximilian Habla, Kilian Züllig and Steffen Zimmermann Interdisciplinary Design Science Research: Reflecting on Method Creation at the Intersection of Information Systems, Law, and Ethics Christian Kurtz and Fabian Burmeister Blockchain-Based Source-to-Source News Verification Alberto Butera, Julia Staszczak, Patrick Mikalef and Valentina Gatteschi Real-Time Guidance Design: Principles for Proactive AI-Augmented Guidance Systems Supporting Human Dialog in Customer Service Marc Grau, Niklas Weller and Ivo Blohm Scale development for measuring design principle reusability Sanaz Nabavian and Jeffrey Parsons Global AI Governance for responsible AI development: Adapting the EU AI Act beyond Europe Ayaz Karimov, Tommi Kärkkäinen, Samir Aliyev and Mirka Saarela A Fine-Grained Usage Prediction to Understand the Unique Needs of Carsharing in Rural Areas Sören Aguirre Reid, Pia Marie Georgiew, Dennis Handt, Frank Kammer and Markus Siepermann Bridging the Two Sciences: Tapping into the Confluence of Network Science and Design Science Research Samrat Gupta, Thorsten Schoormann, Mukul Gupta and Leona Chandra Kruse Visualizing Dependencies in Customized Information Systems Using the Example of ERP Systems Marvin Heuer, Fabian Evermann and Christian Kurtz Leveraging Contradictions to Enhance Emergency Management: Insights from Four Natural Disasters Rui Chen and H Raghave Rao Business Modelling for Highly Regulated, Multi-Stakeholder Environments: Design Support for Software as a Medical Device Startups in the European Union Rahel Sophie Martjan, Sascha Noel Weimar and Orestis Terzidis How can regulators in developing nations design effective AI laws? Anselm Ohme and Christoph Seckler Design Patterns for IT-Driven Circular Economy Initiatives Kay Hönemann and Manuel Wiesche Designing a Digital Nudging Nexus Anna Islind, Jan Pries-Heje and Caroline Kure Six Signatures of Design Science Research Veda C. Storey and Roman Lukyanenko Strategic Decision-Making in Established Organizations: Leveraging Knowledge Problems and Foster Entrepreneurial Behavior Pascal Henninger How to Transform Resource-Intensive Industries Towards Regenerative Business Models: An eDSR Study in the Chemical Industry Jan-Friedrich Kulp and Yacine Cherraoui Student Development-Oriented Recommender Systems: Optimizing for Long-Term Professional Achievement Konstantin Bauman, Manoj Chacko, Dietmar Jannach and Munir Mandviwalla |
| 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Demos & Prototypes Towards Digital Strategizing Tools Hannes Göbel, Michael Mirbaha and Stefan Cronholm Prototype of Spectrogram-Based Word Recognition Software Based on Convolutional Neural Network Dominik Zieliński, Małgorzata Kurcjusz-Gzowska, Emil Łasocha, Michał Korwek, Ksawery Wojtaszek and Agnieszka Jastrzebska Information System Design for Consensus-efficient human-AI ensemble advice-taking in Organizations Nicole Namyslo and Dominik Jung Nomological Validation: Returning the Lost Validity Through an LLM for Theory-Driven Psychometrics Kai Larsen, Sen Yan, Roland Mueller, Lan Sang and Ravi Starzl Faculty AI Agent-based University Lecture Support System: Balancing Student Engagement and Faculty Workload Ken Katakura IXAII: An Interactive Explainable Artificial Intelligence Interface for Decision Support Systems Pauline Speckmann, Mario Nadj and Christian Janiesch Design Science Research Academy: A Prototype for Open and Innovative DSR Teaching Material Michael Gau, Sebastian Reiners, Gregor Kipping, Leon Müller, Tuure Tuunanen, Jan Marco Leimeister and Jan Vom Brocke Anatomy of a Social Monitor Implementation using Generative AI Maurice McNaughton, Sameer Verma, Jonathan White and Lila Rao-Graham Cyber Quest: A Narrative-Based Video Game for Cybersecurity Education and Training Ersin Dincelli and Łukasz Kusyk |
| 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Conference Closing |
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