Dr. Navid Tavanapour

Research Associate (Postdoc)
Information Systems, Socio-Technical Systems Design (WISTS)
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Research Profile
Navid Tavanapour works for the workgroup Information Systems, esp. Socio-Technical Systems Design (WISTS) at the Department of Informatics at the University of Hamburg since January 2016. Since 2020 he is a postdoctoral member of the research group WISTS.
Research interests:
- Crowdsourcing
- Gamification
- Collaboration Engineering
- Designing and Applying AI (e.g. Chatbots) for collaborative processes
- Chatbot-Facilitation of individuals/groups
- Social Intelligent Bots
- Human in the Loop
- Natural Language Processing
- Social Media as a channel for (spreading) phenomena (e.g. Conspiracy theory, fake news etc.)
- Social Media analytics
- Knowledge work and –management,
- IT-Innovations management
- Co-Creation/Social Innovation.
Publications
Journals
Poser, M.; Küstermann, G. C., Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E.A.C. (2022). Design and Evaluation of a Conversational Agent for Facilitating Idea Generation in Organizational Innovation Processes. In: Information Systems Frontiers.
Brandt, M., Bader, P. & Tavanapour, N. (2021). Einbindung von vielen Teilnehmenden in den softwaregestützten Ideenfindungsprozess. Informatik Spektrum.
Debowski, N., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Einsatz eines virtuellen Kollaborators in analogen & digitalen Workshops im organisationalen Kontext. Informatik Spektrum.
Wiethof C.; Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Writing Process with Gamification Elements: Toward a Framework for Gamifying Collaboration Processes. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 13(1).
Conference Proceedings
Borchers, M., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E.A.C. (2023). Designing Mobile Applications for Citizen Participation in Urban Planning In: 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Nominated for best Paper Award.
Borchers, M., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E.A.C. (2023). Exploring AI supported Citizen Argumentation on Urban Participation Platforms In: 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Borchers, M., & Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E.A.C. (2022). Toward Intelligent Platforms to Support Citizen Participation in Urban Planning. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2022. Link.
Debowski, N., & Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E.A.C. (2022).Conversational Agents in Creative Work – A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda for Remote Design Thinking. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2022.
Debowski, N., Tavanapour, N., Bittner, E.A.C., (2022). Toward a Virtual Collaborator in Online Collaboration from an Organizations’ Perspective. In: 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2022). (accepted)
Debowski, N., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2022). Prototyping a Conversational Agent for AI-Supported Ideation in Organizational Creativity Processes. In: 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Wiethof, C., Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Implementing an Intelligent Collaborative Agent as Teammate in Collaborative Writing: Toward a Synergy of Humans and AI. In 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Wiethof, C.; Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2020): Design and Evaluation of a Collaborative Writing Process with Gamification Elements. In: 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Tavanapour, N.; Theodorakopoulos, D. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2020): A chatbot as Facilitator: Guiding Groups Through Collaboration Processes. In: International Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Küstermann, G. C.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Tavanapour, N. (2019): Workshop-based E-participation: Guidelines and Requirements for Informed Design. In: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019). Cancún, Mexico.
Tavanapour, N.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Brügger, M. (2019): Theory-Driven-Design for Open Digital Human Collaboration Systems. In: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). Cancún, Mexico.
Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2019): "Towards Supportive Mechanisms for Crowd Collaboration – Design Guidelines for Platform Developers". In: Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer. Orlando – Florida, USA.
Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2019): "Human Collaboration on Crowdsourcing Platforms – A Content Analysis". In: Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer. Orlando – Florida, USA.
Tavanapour, N.; Poser, M. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2019): Supporting the Idea Generation Process in Citizen Participation - Toward Interactive Systems with Conversational Agents as Facilitator. In: 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Stockholm-Uppsala, Sweden.
Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2018): Automated Facilitation for Idea Platforms: Design and Evaluation of a Chatbot Prototype In: 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). San Francisco, USA.
Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2018): The Collaboration of Crowd Workers. In: 26th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Portsmouth, UK.
Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2017): Collaboration among Crowdsourcees: Towards a Design Theory for Collaboration Process Design. In: 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Waikoloa, USA.