10067: Design Research on Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Opportunities, and Frontiers

Saturday, July 26, 2025

11:00 - 13:30 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall B- B6-m3

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/xKARxd

Organizer(s)

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Savindu Herath

ETH Zurich, Switzerland
LS

Lan Sang

U. of Colorado - Boulder, United States

Presenter(s)

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Leona Chandra Kruse

University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein

Distinguished Speaker(s)

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Ahmed Abbasi

U. of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
JP

Jeffrey Parsons

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Presenter(s)

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Anuschka Schmitt

The London School of Economics & Political Science, United Kingdom
YS

Yash Raj Shrestha

U. of Lausanne, Switzerland
GA

Gemza Ademaj

Lund University, Sweden

Discussant(s)

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Matthias Soellner

U. of Kassel, Germany

Distinguished Speaker(s)

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Ramayya Krishnan

Carnegie Mellon University

The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are fundamentally transforming decision-making and creative work in organizational settings. This paradigm shift highlights the urgent need to explore the design of AI embedded in organizational processes using design science research (DSR), shifting the focus from understanding AI phenomena to prescribing innovative solutions for real-world problems using cutting-edge AI approaches. While a growing body of information systems (IS) research adopts a design perspective to develop complex AI and human-AI systems (HAIS), researchers face significant challenges in conceptualizing, designing, and publishing impactful DSR on AI. This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) provides a platform to tackle these challenges, foster meaningful dialogue, and illuminate pathways for advancing research in this critical domain. Grounded in recent editorial insights from leading IS journals and major advancements in the field, this session will focus on identifying barriers to impactful design research, proposing strategies to overcome them, and pushing the theoretical and practical boundaries of AI-driven design artifacts. Through keynote presentations, focused paper discussions, and hands-on paper development sessions, this PDW will bring together renowned scholars and early-career researchers to collaboratively explore the opportunities and challenges of DSR on AI. By bridging academic research and practical applications, this session aims to inspire novel contributions to the design and understanding of AI systems, making it a relevant and timely event for those driving the future of DSR and AI.

The participants are welcomed to submit their papers for the roundtable discussion. Link for paper submissions for the PDW: https://forms.gle/z25mmkbMZQ9BXr4s7