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How can AI become an effective team member, and how does it affect collaboration between people?
In the new research course “Virtual Human-AI Collaboration”, Master’s students will investigate these questions through their own experimental projects. Working in small teams, they will design and implement an AI-based system and evaluate it in a study at the KD²Lab.
The course covers the full research process: developing a research question and hypotheses, implementing an experiment, analyzing the data, and writing a scientific paper.
The course takes place in winter semester 2026/27 and is limited to 20 Master’s students interested in human-AI interaction, system design, and experimental research. Registration and topic selection are open until 11 October 2026 (end of day).

In this summer semester 2026, M.Sc. students of KIT engaged as part of the lecture “Designing Interactive Systems: Human-AI Interaction” in a joint capstone project in collaboration between EnBW’s "Digital & Operations" division and the KIT Institute for Information Systems (WIN).

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how people work, make decisions, and interact with one another. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is strategically expanding its research in this field: In spring 2026, Professor Maximilian Förster was appointed Junior Professor for Digital Platforms and Services. His research focuses on how AI can be designed to be comprehensible, reliable, and to deliver tangible benefits to society and the economy.

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!