Publications
2025
Cvetkovic, I., Grashoff, I., Jovancevic, A., Bittner, E. (2025): Quid pro Quo: Information disclosure for AI feedback in Human-AI collaboration. In: Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, Volume 4, 2025.
Borchers, M., Milutzki, E. & Bittner, E. (2025): Designing ML-based Prediction Systems for the Energy Consumption of electric Buses to support Public Transport Providers. In: 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Memmert, L., Borchers, M., Plückhahn, J. & Bittner, E. (2025): Solving Coding Challenges Jointly with a Large Language Model: Understanding Student Journeys Through Bloom’s Taxonomy. In: 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
2024
Memmert, L., Mies, J. & Bittner, E. (2024): Brainstorming with a Generative Language Model: The Role of Creative Ability and Tool-Support for Brainstorming Performance. In: 45th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
Borchers, M., Soroko, D., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. (2024): Hear Me Out: Supporting Citizens to Create Comprehensible Contributions on Urban Participation Platforms. In: ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CSCW2, Article 432 (CSCW). San José, Costa Rica.
Borchers, M., Bao, T., & Bittner, E. (2024): Toward the ML-based Analysis of Citizens' Inputs from E-Participation in Urban Planning. In: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS).
Borchers, M., Thu-Bao, C., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. (2024): Designing AI-based Systems to support the Analysis of Citizen's inputs from E-Participation. In 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Memmert, L. (2024): Brainstorming with a Generative Language Model: Understanding Performance Through Brainstorming Group Effects. In: 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Borchers, M., Gierlich-Joas, M., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. (2024): Let Citizens Speak Up: Designing Intelligent Online Participation for Urban Planning. In 19th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST).
Memmert, L., & Bittner, E. (2024): Human-AI Collaboration for Brainstorming: Effect of the Presence of AI Ideas on Breadth of Exploration. In: 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Memmert, L., Cvetkovic, I. & Bittner E. (2024): The More Is Not the Merrier: Effects of Prompt Engineering on the Quality of Ideas Generated By GPT-3. In: 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Kučević, E. , von Brackel-Schmidt, C., Lewandowski, T., Leible, S., Memmert, L., Böhmann, T. (2024): The Prompt-a-thon: Designing Formats for Value Co-Creation with Generative AI for Research and Practice. In: 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Nominated for Best Paper Award
2023
Taş, E. (2023), Data literacy education through university-industry collaboration, Information and Learning Sciences, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0077.
von Brackel-Schmidt, C., Kucevic, E., Memmert, L., Tavanapour, N., Cvetkovic, I., Bittner, E., & Böhmann, T. (2023). A User-centric Taxonomy for Conversational Generative Language Models. In: Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Nominated for Best Paper Award
Memmert, L., Tavanapour, N., & Bittner, E. (2023). Learning by Doing: Educators’ Perspective on an Illustrative Tool for AI-Generated Scaffolding for Students in Conceptualizing Design Science Research Studies. Journal of Information Systems Education, 34(3), 279-292.
Poser, M., Hörhold, H.K. & Bittner, E. (2023): May the Guide Be With You: CA-facilitated Information Elicitation to Prevent Service Failure. In: 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Gierlich-Joas, M. & Zimmer M. (2023): Digital workplace transformation triggers a shift in the HR function: From resource manager to growth catalyst. In: 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Memmert, L. & Tavanapour, N. (2023): Towards Human-AI-Collaboration in Brainstorming: Empirical Insights into the Perception of working with a generative AI. In: 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
Memmert, L., Cvetkovic, I. & Bittner E. (2023): Human-AI Collaboration in Conceptualizing Design Science Research Studies: Perceived Helpfulness of Generative Language Model's Suggestions. In: 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).
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. Link
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). Link
Cvetkovic, I., Rosenberg, V., & Bittner, E.A.C.. (2023). Conversational Agent as a Black Hat: Can Criticizing improve Idea Generation? In: 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Lewandowski, T., Poser, M., Kučević, E., Heuer, M., Hellmich, J., Raykhlin, M., Blum, S., & Böhmann, T. (2023). Leveraging the Potential of Conversational Agents: Quality Criteria for the Continuous Evaluation and Improvement. In: 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
2022
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). 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).
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).
Cvetkovic, I. & Bittner E. (2022). Task Delegability to AI: Evaluation of a Framework in a Knowledge Work Context. In 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Memmert, L. & Bittner E. (2022). Complex Problem Solving through Human-AI Collaboration: Literature Review on Research Contexts. In 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
2021
Wiethof, C. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Hybrid Intelligence - Combining the Human in the Loop with the Computer in the Loop: A Systematic Literature Review. In: 42nd International Conference on Information Systems, Austin and the World 2021.
Debowski, N., Siemon, D., and Bittner, E. (2021). Problem Areas in Creativity Workshops and Resulting Design Principles for a Virtual Collaborator. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS).
Brandt, M., Bader, P. & Tavanapour, N. (2021. )Einbindung von vielen Teilnehmenden in den softwaregestützten Ideenfindungsprozess. Informatik Spektrum. Link
Debowski, N., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Einsatz eines virtuellen Kollaborators in analogen & digitalen Workshops im organisationalen Kontext. Informatik Spektrum. Link
Oeste-Reiß, S., Bittner, E., Cvetkovic, I., Günther, A., Leimeister, J. M., Memmert, L., Ott, A., Sick, B. & Wolter, K. (2021). Hybride Wissensarbeit. 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).
Bittner, E. A. C., Mirbabaie, M., & Morana, S. (2021). Digital Facilitation Assistance for Collaborative, Creative Design Processes. In 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Küstermann, G. C. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Developing a GIS-integrated Tool to Obtain Citizens’ Input in On-site Participation—Learnings from Participatory Urban Planning of a Large City. In 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
Poser, M., Singh S., & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Hybrid Service Recovery: Design for Seamless Inquiry Handovers between Conversational Agents and Human Service Agents. In 54th 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).
2020
Debowski, N., Siemon, D., and Bittner, E. (2021). Problem Areas in Creativity Workshops and Resulting Design Principles for a Virtual Collaborator. PACIS 2021 Proceedings. 108. Link
Brandt, M., Bader, P. & Tavanapour, N. (2021). Einbindung von vielen Teilnehmenden in den softwaregestützten Ideenfindungsprozess. Informatik Spektrum. Link
Debowski, N., Tavanapour, N. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2021). Einsatz eines virtuellen Kollaborators in analogen & digitalen Workshops im organisationalen Kontext. Informatik Spektrum. Link
Oeste-Reiß, S., Bittner, E., Cvetkovic, I., Günther, A., Leimeister, J. M., Memmert, L., Ott, A., Sick, B. & Wolter, K (2021). Hybride Wissensarbeit. Informatik Spektrum.
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). (accepted)
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. (accepted)
Poser, M. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2020): Hybrid Teamwork: Consideration of Teamwork Concepts to Reach Naturalistic Interaction between Humans and Conversational Agents. In: International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Potsdam, Germany.
Seeber, I.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Briggs, R. O.; De Vreede, T.; De Vreede, G. -J.; Elkins, A.; Maier, R.; Merz, A. B.; Oeste-Reiß, S.; Randrup, N.; Schwabe, G. & Söllner, M. (2020): Machines as Teammates: A Research Agenda on AI in Team Collaboration. In: Information & Management, Vol. 57, Nr. 2. PDF
2019
Winkler, R.; Neuweiler, M. L.; Bittner, E. A. C.; & Söllner, M. (2019): Hey Alexa, Please Help Us Solve This Problem! How Interactions with Smart Personal Assistants Improve Group Performance, In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Munich, Germany.
Bittner, E. A. C.; Leimeister J.; Krcmar H.; Lieven, C.; Niering, P. & Peters, C. (2019): Civitas Digitalis - Digitale und Crowd-basierte Dienstleistungssysteme zur Schaffung zukunftsfähiger und lebenswerter Lebensräume 2020. Handlungsbroschüre zum Verbundforschungsprojekt, ITeG Technical Reports, Vol. 8, Kassel, Germany: Kassel university press. PDF
Poser, M.; Küstermann, G. C.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Casper, A.; Kulus, D. & Lieven, C. (2019): Werkzeuge für digitale Beteiligung. In: Bittner, E. A. C.; Leimeister J.; Krcmar H.; Lieven, C.; Niering, P. & Peters, C. (Eds.), Civitas Digitalis - Digitale und Crowd-basierte Dienstleistungssysteme zur Schaffung zukunftsfähiger und lebenswerter Lebensräume 2020. Handlungsbroschüre zum Verbundforschungsprojekt, pp. 45-87, ITeG Technical Reports, Vol. 8, Kassel, Germany: Kassel university press.
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.
Bittner, E. A. C.; Küstermann, G. C. & Tratzky, C. (2019): The Facilitator Is a Bot: Towards a Conversational Agent for Facilitating Idea Elaboration on Idea Platforms. In: 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Stockholm-Uppsala, Sweden.
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.
Bittner, E. A. C.; Oeste-Reiß, S.; Ebel, P. A. & Söllner, M. (2019): Mensch-Maschine-Kollaboration: Grundlagen, Gestaltungsherausforderungen und Potenziale für verschiedene Anwendungsdomänen. In: HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Link zum Artikel
Bittner, E. A. C.; Oeste-Reiß, S. & Leimeister, J. M. (2019): Where is the Bot in our Team? Toward a Taxonomy of Design Option Combinations for Conversational Agents in Collaborative Work. In: 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, USA.
Bittner, E. A. C. & Shoury, O. (2019): Designing Automated Facilitation for Design Thinking: A Chatbot for Supporting Teams in the Empathy Map Method. In: 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, USA.
Poser, M.; Küstermann, G. C. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2019): Citizen E-Participation: Bringing the "E" to Facilitated Workshops. In: 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, USA.
2018
Simmert, B.; Ebel, P. A.; Peters, C.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2018): Conquering the Challenge of Continuous Business Model Improvement - Design of a Repeatable Process. In: Business & Information Systems Engineering, pp. 1-18.
Semmann, M., Grotherr, C., Vogel, P., Bittner, E. A. C., Biemann, C. & Böhmann, T. (2018): Intelligent Collaboration of Humans and Language-Based Assistants (INSTANT). In: 39th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) - TREO Talks, San Francisco, USA.
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.
Seeber, I.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Briggs, R. O.; De Vreede, G. -J.; De Vreede, T.; Druckenmiller, D.; Maier, R.; Merz, A. B.; Oeste-Reiß, S.; Randrup, N.; Schwabe, G. & Söllner, M. (2018): Machines as Teammates: A Collaboration Research Agenda. In: 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Waikoloa, USA.
2017
Kolek, E. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2017): Usability Evaluation of Cooperation Visualisation in Enterprises: Framework Development and Validation Based on Empirical Results. In: 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Guimarães, Portugal.
Oeste-Reiß, S.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Söllner, M. (2017): Yes You Can - Empowering Lecturers to Simulate Collaboration among Learners in the Disciplines of Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking Regardless of Class Size. In: 13th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). Dresden, Germany.
Simmert, B.; Ebel, P.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Peters, C. (2017): Systematic and Continuous Business Model Development: Design of a Repeatable Process Using the Collaboration Engineering Approach. In: 13th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). Dresden, Germany.
Fazli, F. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2017): Cultural Influences on Collaborative Work in Software Engineering Teams. In: 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Waikoloa, USA.
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.
2016
Bittner, E. A. C. & Hoffmann, A. (2016): Collaborative Knowledge Sharing in Project Teams - Requirements and Design Goals. In: 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Istanbul, Turkey.
Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2016): Wissenstransfer in altersgemischten Team: Das TANDEMWorkshopkonzept. In: Leimeister J., Krcmar H., Möslein K., Ohly S. (Eds.), Innovieren im demografischen Wandel - Methoden und Konzepte für ein modernes Innovationsmanagement, pp. 51-74. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Gabler.
2015
Bittner, E. A. C.; Ebel, P.; Habicht, H.; Leimeister, J. M.; Möslein, K. & Plieth, H. (2015): In TANDEMs zu Innovationen - Förderung der Zusammenarbeit in altersgemischten Teams. In: Praeview - Zeitschrift für innovative Arbeitsgestaltung und Prävention, Vol. 6, pp. 16-17.
Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2015): Das TANDEM-Konzept zur Unterstützung des Wissenstransfers in altersdiversen Arbeitsgruppen. In: Jeschke, S., Richert, A., Hees, F. & Jooß, C. (Eds.), Exploring Demographics - Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven zur Innovationsfähigkeit im demografischen Wandel, pp. 371-382. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Spektrum.
Oeste, S.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Söllner, M. & Leimeister, J. M. (2015): How to Empower Lecturers to Leverage the Benefits of Peer Learning - Theory-Driven Design of Collaborative Learning Patterns. In: 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management - PDW ‘Management Education and Learning Writers Workshop’. Vancouver, Canada.
Bittner, E. A. C. (2015): Designing for Shared Understanding. How Collaboration Engineering can Improve Team Effectiveness of Heterogeneous Groups. In: Research on IT/Service/Innovation/Collaboration, Vol. 5. Kassel, Deutschland: Kassel University Press, 2015.
2014
Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2014): Creating Shared Understanding in Heterogeneous Work Groups - Why It Matters and How to Achieve it. In: Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Vol. 31, Nr. 1, pp. 111-143.
Kipp, P.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Bretschneider, U. & Leimeister, J. M. (2014): User Collaboration for Idea Elaboration. In: Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI) 2014. Paderborn, Germany.
Leimeister, J. M. & Bittner, E. A. C. (2014): Collaboration Engineering. In: WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, Vol. 43, Nr. 5, pp- 243-249.
2013
Hoffmann, A.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2013): The Emergence of Mutual and Shared Understanding in the System Development Process. In: Doerr, J. & Opdahl, A. L. (Eds.), Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 174-189. Essen, Germany: Springer Verlag.
Kipp, P.; Bittner, E. A. C.; Hoffmann, A.; Bretschneider, U. & Leimeister, J. M. (2013): Collaborative Idea Elaboration on Web-Based Ideation Platforms. In: 8th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST). Helsinki, Finland.
Bittner, E. A. C.; Hoffmann, A. & Leimeister, J. M. (2013): Engineering for Shared Understanding in Heterogeneous Work Groups - An Action Research Study at a German Automotive Company. In: Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) 2013. Stockholm, Sweden.
Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2013): Why Shared Understanding Matters - Engineering a Collaboration Process for Shared Understanding to Improve Collaboration Effectiveness in Heterogeneous Teams. In: 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). Maui, Hawaii.
2011
Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2011): Towards CSR 2.0 - Potentials and Challenges of Web 2.0 for Corporate Social Responsibility Communication. In: 11th European Academy of Management (EURAM) - Annual Meeting. Tallinn, Estonia.
Bitzer, P.; Bittner, E. A. C. & Leimeister, J. M. (2011): Identifying a Set of Relevant Input and Output Factors within a Productivity Model for Educational Services. In: International RESER Conference (RESER) 2011. Hamburg, Germany.