Science communication of the first half of '23

The Digital Transformation research unit complements our Management, Communication & IT, and Digital Business & Software Engineering degree programs in the fields of applied research and development of practice-relevant solutions for digitization and their comprehensive integration into practice. This blog post provides an overview of published books, journal articles, conference papers and talks of the first half of 2023. Together with our faculty as well as individual students and alumni, we are happy to announce remarkable publication successes in the last months. A special congratulations goes to our Management, Communication & IT graduate Anna Stock, whose bachelor's thesis was awarded with a BestPaperAward at this year's HCI International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

Book:

Springer; Sales Enablement: Tools and Techniques for Modern Sales Organization (Business Guides on the Go) (Kilian, Mirski, Lorenz)

Conference Papers & Talks

• ICL; Augmented Reality in Engineering Education – A Comparison of Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions (Bernsteiner, Probst, Pachatz, Ploder, Dilger)
• ICHMS; Chatbots for Robotic Process Automation: Investigating Perceived Trust and User Satisfaction (Casadei, Schlögl, Bergmann)
• INTED; How Data-Driven Decision making can be optimized by linking CRM and ERP Data (Ganahl, Ploder, Spiess, Dilger, Bernsteiner)
• INTED; Cultural Intelligence as a Skill for the Future of Work (Pun, Spiess, Schlögl, Ploder)
• ENTER; Boundaries of Visitors’ Willingness to Disclose Personal Information to Tourism Destinations (Stocker, Groth, Mirski)
• SE; RPA in the post-implementation phase of ERP systems (Ploder, Obermair, Bernsteiner, Dilger)
• ICMLT; HE-MAN – Homomorphically Encrypted MAchine Learning with ONnx Models (Nocker, Drexel, Rader, Montuoro, Schöttle)
• ICMLT; On the Effect of Adversarial Training Against Invariance-Based Adversarial Examples (Rauter, Nocker, Merkle, Schöttle)
• EANN/EAAAI; Pruning for Power: Optimizing Energy Efficiency in IoT with Neural Network Pruning (Widmann, T., Merkle, F., Nocker, M., & Schöttle, P. (2023)
• KMO; The Use of No-Code Platforms in Startups (Brühl, Bernsteiner, Ploder, Dilger, Spiess)
• KMO; Development and Validation of a Knowledge Audit Framework for SMEs (Rottensteiner, Ploder, Fritz, Bernsteiner)
• KMO; Development of a Knowledge Transfer Model for Family-Owned SMEs (Nagl, Ploder, Dilger, Schlögl)
• LTEC; Educ-AI-ted – Investigating Educators’ Perspectives Concerning the Use of AI in University Teaching and Learning (Tritscher, Röck, Schlögl)
• IC-IHAW; Perspectives on Technology Use in Dementia Care – An Exploratory Study of Nursing Homes in Luxembourg (Monville, Schlögl, Weichelt, Windbichler)
• EDULEARN 2023; Development and evaluation of a multimodal didactic concept for teaching emerging trends in business informatics (Rottensteiner, Ploder, Bernsteiner, Dilger)
• *HCI International 2023; Tell me, what are you most afraid of? Exploring the Effects of Agent Representation on Information Disclosure in Human-Chatbot Interaction (Stock, Schlögl, Groth)

  *Best Paper Award

Talks

• D-DIALOGUES; The Value of a Skills-Based Approach for Education and Employability (Mirski)
• AV-Comparatives Award Ceremony & Security Conference; The Future of IoT – Use cases, Testing and a Secret (Schöttle)
• FFH; Data Storytelling – Erkenntnisse aus der Praxis (Schlögl)
• EBEEC; Challenging the Agilefall budgeting-trap: Applying the continuous planning and forecasting framework (Dilger)
• EBEEC; Awareness of unethical artificial intelligence and its mitigation measures (Dilger)
• EBEEC; An organization's strategic orientation attitude towards enterprise risk management and the impact on firm performance (Ploder)

Journal Article

• Multimodal Technologies and Interaction; Linking Personality and Trust in Intelligent Virtual Assistants (Schadelbauer, Schlögl, Groth)
• European Journal of Management Issues; Data Storytelling to Communicate Big Data Internally – a Guide for Practical Usage (Oberascher, Ploder, Spiess, Bernsteiner, Van Kooten)
• KnE Social Sciences; Cash in the Trash? An Austrian Perspective on Mobile Payment Adoption (Dilger, Bernardi, Ploder, Spieß, Bernsteiner)
• KnE Social Sciences; Leverage the COBIT 2019 Design Toolkit in an SME Context: A Multiple Case Study (Amore, Dilger, Ploder, Bernsteiner, Mezzenzana)
• Cloud Computing and Data Science; A Machine Learning Approach for Automated Cost Estimation of Plastic Injection Molding Parts (Klocker, Bernsteiner, Ploder, Nocker)

Congratulations to our esteemed faculty, exceptional students and successful graduates on their remarkable publications.