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Open Access 29-05-2024 | Research Paper

Designing Virtual Coaching Solutions

Design and Evaluation of a Digital Health Intervention for Rehabilitation

Especially older persons are prone to disabilities and chronic diseases. These chronic conditions pose a worldwide challenge, leading to deteriorating health, economic strain, loss of life, and a decline in the quality of life (QoL). Therefore …

Authors:
Hannes Schlieter, Kai Gand, Thure Georg Weimann, Emanuel Sandner, Karl Kreiner, Steffen Thoma, Jin Liu, Massimo Caprino, Massimo Corbo, Agnese Seregni, Peppino Tropea, Rocio Del Pino, Juan Carlos Gómez Esteban, Inigo Gabilondo, Andreea Elena Lacraru, Stefan Sebastian Busnatu

Open Access 28-05-2024 | Research Paper

How Artificial Intelligence Challenges Tailorable Technology Design

Insights from a Design Study on Individualized Bladder Monitoring

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced healthcare and created unprecedented opportunities to enhance patient-centeredness and empowerment. This progress promotes individualized medicine, where treatment and care are tailored to …

Authors:
Pascal Fechner, Fabian König, Jannik Lockl, Maximilian Röglinger

Open Access 27-05-2024 | Editorial

Reimagining Digital Health

Advances in Patient-Centeredness, Artificial Intelligence, and Data-Driven Research

Digital health is “associated with the use and development of digital technologies to improve health” (WHO 2024a ). It differs from other forms of healthcare by using a set of digital technologies, which are smart, accessible, and connected and …

Authors:
Ali Sunyaev, Daniel Fürstenau, Elizabeth Davidson

Open Access 15-05-2024 | Research Paper

Data-Driven Identification and Analysis of Waiting Times in Business Processes

A Systematic Literature Review

Reducing waiting times in end-to-end business processes is a recurrent concern in the field of business process management. The uptake of data-driven approaches in this field in the past two decades, most notably process mining, has created new …

Authors:
Muhammad Awais Ali, Fredrik Milani, Marlon Dumas

03-05-2024 | State of the Art

Precision Digital Health

A Proposed Framework and Future Research Opportunities

Accounting for individual and situational heterogeneity (i.e., precision) is now an important area of research and treatment in the field of medicine. This essay argues that precision should also be embraced within digital health artifacts, such …

Authors:
Aaron Baird, Yusen Xia

22-04-2024 | Research Paper

Internet of Things Network Security Improvement Investment

The Role of Platform and Smart Device Manufacturer

At present, businesses can reap impressive benefits from the Internet of Things (IoT). However, with the increasing number of IoT devices and the complexity of the IoT ecosystem, there is a growing concern about security vulnerabilities. This …

Authors:
Xiufeng Li, Zhen Zhang

Open Access 18-03-2024 | State of the Art

On the Interplay Between Business Process Management and Internet-of-Things

A Systematic Literature Review

In the last years, the increasing scientific and industrial interest in Business Process Management (BPM) approaches and methods on the one side, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and tools on the other. Are these fields complementary?

Authors:
Francesca De Luzi, Francesco Leotta, Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella

Open Access 07-03-2024 | Catchword

Process Mining Success Factors and Their Interrelationships

Process mining—a suite of techniques for extracting insights from event logs of Information Systems (IS)—is increasingly being used by a wide range of organisations to improve operational efficiency. Despite extensive studies of Critical Success …

Authors:
Azumah Mamudu, Wasana Bandara, Moe T. Wynn, Sander J. J. Leemans

Open Access 05-03-2024 | Discussion

Open Science

Towards Greater Transparency and Openness in Science

Alexander Maedche …

Authors:
Alexander Maedche, Edona Elshan, Hartmut Höhle, Christiane Lehrer, Jan Recker, Ali Sunyaev, Benjamin Sturm, Oliver Werth

Open Access 05-03-2024 | Catchword

Data-Centric Artificial Intelligence

Data-centric artificial intelligence (data-centric AI) represents an emerging paradigm that emphasizes the importance of enhancing data systematically and at scale to build effective and efficient AI-based systems. The novel paradigm complements …

Authors:
Johannes Jakubik, Michael Vössing, Niklas Kühl, Jannis Walk, Gerhard Satzger

Open Access 19-02-2024 | Research Paper

Toward Seamless Mobility-as-a-Service

Providing Multimodal Mobility Through Digital Wallets

With growing awareness of sustainability and convenience expectations, customers are increasingly demanding integrated and seamless mobility in the form of mobility-as-a-service (MaaS). However, as centralized MaaS platforms have thus far failed …

Authors:
Alexandra Hoess, Jonathan Lautenschlager, Johannes Sedlmeir, Gilbert Fridgen, Vincent Schlatt, Nils Urbach

12-02-2024 | Research Paper

Designing Game-based Learning Artefacts for Cybersecurity Processes Using Action Design Research

Nascent Design Theory Implications

Cybersecurity threats faced by organizations are growing in volume and sophistication, with human issues being a significant reason underlying these threats. Organizations report the need for skills development to face these challenges. This need …

Authors:
Dixon Prem Daniel Rajendran, Rangaraja P. Sundarraj

Open Access 12-02-2024 | Research Paper

Hedonic Signals in Crowdfunding

A Comparison Across Crowdfunding Platform Types

This study draws on signaling theory to investigate the effect of hedonic signals in crowdfunding projects on funding performance. It compares the effect of hedonic signals across reward-, equity-, and donation-based crowdfunding platforms by …

Authors:
Ivo Blohm, Moritz Schulz, Jan Marco Leimeister

08-02-2024 | Research Paper

An Expert-Validated Bridging Model for IoT Process Mining

Contextualization is an important challenge in process mining. While Internet of Things (IoT) devices are collecting increasing amounts of data on the physical context in which business processes are executed, the IoT and process mining fields are …

Authors:
Yannis Bertrand, Jochen De Weerdt, Estefanía Serral

Open Access 29-01-2024 | Research Paper

Putting the SWORD to the Test: Finding Workarounds with Process Mining

Workarounds, or deviations from standardized operating procedures, can indicate discrepancies between theory and practice in work processes. Traditionally, observations and interviews have been used to identify workarounds, but these methods can …

Authors:
Wouter van der Waal, Inge van de Weerd, Iris Beerepoot, Xixi Lu, Teus Kappen, Saskia Haitjema, Hajo A. Reijers

Open Access 29-01-2024 | Research Paper

Evaluating BPMN Extensions for Continuous Processes Based on Use Cases and Expert Interviews

The majority of (business) processes described in literature are discrete, i.e., they result in an identifiable and distinct outcome such as a settled customer claim or a produced part. However, there also exists a plethora of processes in process …

Authors:
Diana Strutzenberger, Juergen Mangler, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

Open Access 23-01-2024 | Research Paper

The Twin Transformation Butterfly

Capabilities for an Integrated Digital and Sustainability Transformation

Complex digitalization and sustainability challenges shape today’s management agendas. To date, the dedication of Information Systems research to both challenges has not been equal in terms of effort and reward. Building capabilities to leverage …

Authors:
Anne-Sophie Christmann, Carlotta Crome, Valerie Graf-Drasch, Anna Maria Oberländer, Leonie Schmidt

Open Access 05-01-2024 | Research Note

User Behavior Mining

A Research Agenda

Studying the behavior of users in software systems has become an essential task for software vendors who want to mitigate usability problems and identify automation potentials, or for researchers who want to test behavioral theories. One approach …

Authors:
Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Luka Abb, Gregor Berg, Carsten Bormann, Timotheus Kampik, Christian Warmuth

Open Access 21-12-2023 | Research Paper

SJORS: A Semantic Recommender System for Journalists

Recommender Systems support a broad range of domains, each with peculiarities that recommendation algorithms must consider to produce appropriate suggestions. In the paper, we bring attention to a little-studied scenario related to the news …

Authors:
Ángel Luis Garrido, Maria Soledad Pera, Carlos Bobed

Open Access 21-12-2023 | State of the Art

A Survey on Association Rule Mining for Enterprise Architecture Model Discovery

Association Rule Mining (ARM) is a field of data mining (DM) that attempts to identify correlations among database items. It has been applied in various domains to discover patterns, provide insight into different topics, and build understandable …

Authors:
Carlos Pinheiro, Sergio Guerreiro, Henrique S. Mamede