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.  

We are pleased to announce that as of February 2, 2026, Prof. Dr. Philipp Staudt has started his position as Junior Professor and Head of the Research Group Information Systems II - Digital Energy Markets at the Institute for Information Systems (WIN) at KIT. Prof. Staudt's research focuses on the digitalization of energy systems and sustainable digitalization more broadly, with particular emphasis on digitalized energy systems, agent-based modeling, data management and sustainable information systems. Prior to joining KIT, Prof. Staudt held a position at the University of Oldenburg as a professor for Environmental and Sustainable Information Systems.

For the 2025/26 period, five information systems (IS) scholarships were awarded  by the non-profit association "Die Wirtschaftsinformatik e.V." at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supporting students of  the Information Systems program. The IS students Valerie Lorei, Nicki Fiona Rother and Jérôme Gibhardt received their IS scholarship funded Schwarz IT. The IS students Mara Layer and Steven Rogulsky were funded by SAP SE.