Projects
In our research, we collaborate with a strong network of national and international partners from academia and industry. We aim to bring together different people with different skill sets and expertise to engage in innovative research projects and to strengthen the exchange between research and practice. Our partnerships can take various forms, including project-based collaboration, research scholarships, and publicly funded projects.
The entire Chatbot Research team attended the virtual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2020) and the Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI research organized by AIS SIGHCI. Jasper presented our paper on “Designing Interactive Chatbot Development Systems” at the main conference and Marcel presented our work on Multimodal BI&A Systems at the SIGHCI workshop.
Jasper and Ivo attended the 15th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2020). The conference was a virtual event hosted by the University of Agder, Norway. Jasper presented our paper “Exploring Design Principles for Enterprise Chatbots: An Analytic Hierarchy Process Study”.
We participated in the 4th International Workshop On Chatbot Research (CONVERSATIONS 2020). and served as members of the program committee. The workshop was a virtual event hosted by the University of Amsterdam. Ivo presented our position paper on the “Impact of Control Features on Human Autonomy and Trustworthiness of Affective Chatbots”.
The entire Chatbot Research team attended the virtual European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2020). We presented three papers: “The Effect of Perceived Similarity in Dominance on Customer Self-Disclosure to Chatbots in Conversational Commerce”, “Towards Design Principles for Trustworthy Affective Chatbots for Virtual Teams”, and “We see we disagree: Insights from Designing a Cooperative Requirements Prioritization System”.
Together with our industry partner hsag Heidelberger Services AG, Ulrich attended the E-world energy & water 2020 in Essen, Germany, where he showcased our research and presented our findings to product managers and decision makers in the energy industry.
The entire Chatbot Research team attended the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2019) in Munich. We participated in several workshops and Jasper presented our paper on “Designing a Chatbot Social Cue Configuration System”.
Ulrich gave a presentation about our research on the design of chatbots at this year’s Chatbot Summit in Berlin. He shared insights on why chatbots are perceived as human(-like) and how this phenomenon affects user interaction and behavior.
Our research group participated at CONVERSATIONS 2019, the 3rd International Workshop On Chatbot Research in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ulrich and Jasper presented the accepted full paper “Gender Bias in Chatbot Design” and had a great exchange with fellow chatbot researchers from all around Europe.
The annual tekom conference took place in Stuttgart this year. Stefan was invited to present our findings on the design of chatbots at the Arena UX of the conference.
Stefan presented selected research projects in an invited research talk at the University of St. Gallen. The research groups of Prof. Matthias Söllner and Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister invited us to share our insights on the design of the human-chatbot interaction.
Stefan presented selected research results of the research group at the 2019 SAP User Assistance Reloaded conference. In this talk, he specifically emphasized the importance human-chatbot interaction design.
The Chatbot Research team participated at International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI) 2019 in Siegen, Germany. We presented two papers: “Measuring Service Encounter Satisfaction with Customer Service Chatbots using Sentiment Analysis” and “The Impact of Anthropomorphic and Functional Chatbot Design Features in Enterprise Collaboration Systems on User Acceptance” and Prof. Mädche led a panel discussion on “AI-based Digital Assistants – Opportunities and Risks.
The Chatbot Research team presented insights from our research at a dedicated booth at the SAP UX Day. The SAP UX Day is organized by SAP once a year and took place on February 19th 2019 at ZKM Karlsruhe.
Together with his industry partner hsag Heidelberger Services AG, Ulrich attended the E-world energy & water 2019 in Essen, Germany, where he showcased our research and findings to product managers and decision makers in the energy industry.
Our research group attended the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2018) in San Francisco, USA. Ulrich presented our paper on “The Chatbot is typing… – The Role of Typing Indicators in Human-Chatbot Interaction” at the SIG-HCI Workshop and Stefan gave a talk on “AI-Enabled User Assistance: Designing Human-Intelligent System Cooperation”.
As part of a seminar on “Digital Customer Interaction” organized by ASEW, a network for public utility companies in Germany, Ulrich gave a presentation on opportunities and challenges of customer service chatbots for energy companies.
The User Experience Day took place on October 11th 2018 in Mannheim and attracted 450 participants. Prof. Maedche was co-organizer of the UX Day . Stefan presented our work in the field of chatbots.
At DMEXCO 2018 (Digital Marketing EXposition & COnference) in Cologne, Germany, Jasper presented two chatbots which were developed jointly with sogedes.digital. More information can be found here.
Stefan and Ulrich attended the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2018) in Portsmouth, UK and presented our paper on “Faster is Not Always Better: Understanding the Effect of Dynamic Response Delays in Human-Chatbot Interaction”.
Ulrich gave a talk on “Designing Social Cues for Conversational Agents” at the UX Quick-and-Dirty Meetup in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Stefan and Ulrich attended the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017) in Seoul, South Korea and presented our paper on “Towards Designing Cooperative and Social Conversational Agents for Customer Service”.
Prof. Maedche was the keynote speaker at the BEMD Jahreskongress in Dortmund, Germany. In his keynote, he also presented our research on the design of chatbots to decision makers in the energy industry.
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Chatbot Research
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute of Information Systems and Marketing (IISM)
Research Group Information Systems and Service Design
Email: info@chatbotresearch.org
Kaiserstraße 89-93
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany