The Decision Support Systems (DSS) Journal has published the paper "Effective use of open data story authoringportals for enterprises".social good: Design principles for explainable LLM-based open data assistants". The paper is co-authored Till Carlo Schelhorn, Ulrich Gnewuch, and Alexander Maedche from the Institute for Information Systems (WIN), human-centered systems lab (h-lab) and the University of Passau.

Public access to information through open data is critical for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 16, which promotes accountable and inclusive institutions. However, open data portals often present barriers, such as complex user interfaces and large data catalogs.

Bachelor's and master's students studying information systems (IS) at KIT can apply for an IS scholarship. The scholarship will start on October 1st, 2026 and will run for 12 months. Scholarship holders are supported with 300 Euros per month. The scholarship is awarded by the non-profit association "Die Wirtschaftsinformatik e.V." and serves to promote young people in the field of IS. The scholarship is funded by companies that provide the financial support and are involved in the awarding of the scholarship. For the 2025/26 period, overall seven IS scholarships will be awarded at KIT: 3 scholarships from Schwarz Digits KG, 2 scholarships from SAP SE, and 2 scholarships from Atruvia AG. Further information on the scholarships is available via: https://wirtschaftsinformatik.de/community/stipendien-wirtschaftsinformatik/ 

As part of Girls' Day 2026, doctoral students from the human-centered systems lab offered a workshop for schoolgirls. In the workshop, they learned how to recognize human emotions using biosignals capturing human activity such as heart or gaze activity on the basis of sensor technologies. Following a human-centered design process, the schoolgirls worked together in teams to explore the context of use, articulate user needs and requirements, create a prototypical emotion-adaptive app and evaluate it with users.

The Institute for Information Systems (WIN) will be represented with 10 full papers at the 34th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), which will take place in June in Milan (Italy) in 2026. Beyond the full paper track, WIN researchers are also active in additional conference formats that provide dedicated spaces for emerging research (TREO) and support early-stage and early-career scholars through the doctoral consortium and the junior faculty consortium. Congratulations to all participating researchers from WIN!

We are pleased to announce that as of April 1, 2026, Professor Dr. Maximilian Förster has started his position as Junior Professor and Head of the Research Group Information Systems IV - Digital Platform & Services at the Institute for Information Systems (WIN) at KIT. The junior professorship is sponsored by IBM in addition to its engagement within the Karlsruhe Digital Service Research & Innovation (KSRI) Hub.

We are happy to announce that our proposal for a new M.Sc. titled “Research Course: Virtual Human-AI Collaboration” received funding by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments from the KIT  ”Research Infrastructures in Research-Oriented Teaching (RIRO)“ initiative. The course will be offered in the next winter semester by Dr. Julia Seitz Sänger and Prof. Dr. Alexander Maedche from WIN (h-lab) in collaboration with Dr. Leon Houf and Prof. Dr. Petra Nieken from IBU. It will leverage the KD2Lab as underlying research infrastructure and the associated Human Subject Research Hub.