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Designing Virtual In-vehicle Assistants: Design Guidelines for Creating a Convincing User Experience

More and more people use virtual assistants in their everyday life (e.g., on their mobile phones, in their homes, or in their cars). So-called vehicle assistance systems have evolved over the years and now perform various proactive tasks. However, we …

Design Principles for a Hybrid Intelligence Decision Support System for Business Model Validation

One of the most critical tasks for startups is to validate their business model. Therefore, entrepreneurs try to collect information such as feedback from other actors to assess the validity of their assumptions and make decisions. However, previous …

Design Principles for Establishing a Multi-Sided Open Innovation Platform: Lessons Learned from an Action Research Study in the Medical Technology Industry

Innovation in the medical technology (med tech) industry has a major impact on well-being in society. Open innovation has the potential to accelerate the development of new or improved healthcare solutions. Building on work system theory (WST), this …

Towards Designing an Adaptive Argumentation Learning Tool

Digitalization triggers a shift in the compositions of skills and knowledge needed for students in their future work life. Hence, higher order thinking skills are becoming more important to solve future challenges. One subclass of these skills, which …

Design Principles for Sensemaking Support Systems in Environmental Sustainability Transformations

This paper reports on the results of a design science research (DSR) study that develops design principles for information systems (IS) that support organisational sensemaking in environmental sustainability transformations. We identify initial …

Virtual Moderation Assistance: Creating Design Guidelines for Virtual Assistants Supporting Creative Workshops

To remain competitive, businesses need to develop innovative and profitable products, processes and services. The development of innovation relies on novel ideas, which can be generated during creative workshops. In this context the Design Thinking …

brAInstorm: Intelligent Assistance in Group Idea Generation

In order to generate valuable innovations, it is important to come up with potential beneficial ideas. A well-known method for collective idea generation is Brainstorming and with Electronic Brainstorming, individuals can virtually brainstorm. …

Tool-Support for Design Science Research: Design Principles and Instantiation

Design Science Research (DSR) is now an accepted research paradigm in the Information Systems (IS) field, aiming at developing purposeful IT artifacts and knowledge about the design of IT artifacts. A rich body of knowledge on approaches, methods, …