Dr. Andreas Janson leads a research group at the Institute of Information Systems and Digital Business (IWI-HSG), University of St.Gallen, where he has worked since 2020 and leads projects funded by the SNSF and Innosuisse. From April to September 2026 he was Deputy Professor (W2) for Information Systems, Socio-Technical Systems Design at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD in Information Systems with highest distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Kassel, where he worked as researcher, postdoc and project leader and taught until 2026.
His research studies how digital services are understood and designed across domains, including digital learning, gamification and digital nudging. His work appears in journals such as ISR, JAIS, JIT, EJIS, ISJ, AMLE, Computers & Education and Computers in Human Behavior, and at ICIS, ECIS, DESRIST, HICSS and WI. He has led and co-authored projects funded by the SNSF, Innosuisse, the DFG and the BMBF.
His current work is design-oriented and theory-informed research on secure, lawful and sovereign information systems: compliance and privacy by design, calibrated trust in AI-based systems, and digital sovereignty in platform ecosystems and enterprise AI transformation.
Scalable, adaptive ML-based modeling improves students' argumentation skills across domains, outperforming scripted, adaptive and static support.
How conversational capabilities obscure our understanding of how competent, autonomous and smart conversational AI actually is.
A taxonomy of material properties and archetypes of smart personal assistants, and a theory of how their functional affordances relate to value co-creation.
Scaffolding manages cognitive load in the online phases of flipped classrooms and improves students' problem-solving performance.
A holistic taxonomy for gamifying information systems, used to analyse existing and derive novel gamification designs.