As part of this year’s European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2026 in Milan, Italy, Leonie Manzke represented the Tiefenbeck group with a total of three contributions!
At the pre-conference workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW), the short paper “Working Smarter or Losing Skills? How Artificial Intelligence Use Affects Skill Levels of Knowledge Workers,” which emerged from Neeraja Mathavu’s bachelor’s thesis, was discussed at one of the roundtables. Building on the feedback from that session, a full-length version of the paper is now under review at a journal.
At the workshop “Teaching with AI in Higher Education: From Insight to Impact,” Leonie, representing Prof. Tiefenbeck, presented an early-stage project proposal together with Konstantin Hopf from the Technical University of Chemnitz, a long-standing colleague from the B2E network. The proposal, “Fostering Cognitive Engagement in Large-Scale Higher Education Courses – A Digital Twin Approach to Adaptive Support and Personalized Feedback,” comes from a newly formed consortium that also includes Felix Wortmann and Maximilian May from the University of St. Gallen, and is currently being prepared for a funding application.
The paper “Information Sensitivity Contamination in Sequential Data Donation Requests”, which Leonie co co-authored with Philipp Hartl from the University of Regensburg, was presented at the main conference. This fantastic collaboration also sparked a fruitful exchange with Tawfiq Alashoor, the session chair at that presentation, and an author cited in the paper.
Beyond the scientific exchange, Milan offered excellent espresso, fantastic food, and a picturesque city that is a pleasure to get lost in.