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Since 2013 Andreas Janson has worked in, and acquired, third-party funded projects in basic and applied research. The projects focus on understanding and developing digital services in different application contexts.

€3.7m
total budget of acquired projects
€2.2m
own share of funding
8
funders incl. SNSF, Innosuisse, DFG, BMBF, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre
2013–
continuous project leadership

## ls projects/flagship Innosuisse

Innosuisse FlagshipUniversity of St.Gallen★ HSG Impact Award 2026 ↗

## ls projects/principal-investigator own grants

SNSF SparkGrant 221281

Managing the Algorithm: Prompt Engineering for AI-based Systems as an Emerging Business Skill

Prompt engineering as an emerging business skill: how people learn to steer AI-based systems at work.

role
Principal investigator
period
Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
funding
CHF 99,500
key paper
ICIS 2024, prompting guides · AIS Best Conference Paper on Education
HSG Basic Research FundGFF-IPF

Actualizing the Potential of Smart Personal Assistants

Investigating affordance configurations and their dynamics for AI-based systems. International Postdoctoral Fellowship, hosted by Prof. Dr. Walter Brenner.

role
Principal investigator, fellow
period
Oct 2020 – Sep 2023
funding
CHF 281,000
key papers
AOM 2022, affordance actualization
JAIS 2021, value co-creation in smart services
Dr. Hans Riegel-StiftungConnex

Generative AI as a Repair Mechanism for Chatbot Conversational Breakdowns

Use of generative artificial intelligence as a repair mechanism for chatbot conversational breakdowns in the service context.

role
Principal investigator
period
Dec 2024 – Mar 2025
funding
EUR 4,200
key paper
ICIS 2025, recovery strategies

## ls projects/lead-and-co-applicant proposal author · project lead · responsible postdoc

Stiftung Innovation in der HochschullehreFreiraum · 3004-0324

LIFT: Learning Innovation with Flipped Tutoring

Flipped tutoring as a lever for innovative university teaching.

role
Co-author of the proposal; funded external lecturer
period
Apr 2026 – Mar 2028
total
approx. EUR 280,000
BMBFKomp-HI

Komp-HI: Promoting Competencies through Hybrid Intelligence

Promoting professional and interdisciplinary competencies flexibly and individually through the socio-technical design of hybrid intelligence systems.

role
Co-author of the sub-project and overall proposal; postdoc to Antonia Tolzin
period
Dec 2021 – Nov 2025
own share
approx. EUR 530,000
total
approx. EUR 1.83m
key papers
BIT 2026, common ground with conversational agents
Computers and Education: AI 2024, AI literacy
output
final report (TIB)
SNSFIndividual research grant

Understanding and Designing User Trust in Smart Personal Assistants

How users build, calibrate and lose trust in voice-based and AI-based personal assistants.

role
Responsible postdoc; postdoc to Anuschka Schmitt
period
Oct 2020 – Sep 2024
funding
CHF 476,600
key paper
JAIS 2023, agency attribution
Stiftung Innovation in der HochschullehreUKS_digi

Co-Creation Concepts for Interactive Learning Videos

Sub-project of UKS_digi at the University of Kassel: co-creation concepts for the development of interactive learning videos.

role
Co-author of the sub-project; postdoc to Tim Weinert and Dennis Benner
period
Aug 2021 – Oct 2024
own share
approx. EUR 180,000
total
approx. EUR 2.90m
key paper
CAIS 2024, interactive learning videos
BMBFnudger

Nudger: Nudging Privacy in the Digitized Working Environment

Systematic concept development and piloting of privacy nudges for better privacy decisions at digital workplaces. Partners: Fraunhofer IAO, Lyncronize. Featured in heise iX.

role
Author of the proposal; project lead; postdoc to Torben Barev and Sofia Schöbel
period
Sep 2018 – Aug 2021
own share
approx. EUR 520,000
total
approx. EUR 1.23m
key papers
HICSS 2020 Best Paper
ITP 2026, legitimate defaults
DFGAnEkA

AnEkA: Legal and Quality-Centred Requirement and Design Patterns for Context-Aware Applications

Interdisciplinary requirement and design patterns that unite legal compatibility and service quality for smart personal assistants.

role
Responsible postdoc, incl. the project extension; postdoc to Ernestine Dickhaut
period
Jul 2017 – Jan 2021
own share
approx. EUR 293,000
total
approx. EUR 586,000
key paper
EJIS 2024, lawfulness by design
BMBFKoLeArn

KoLeArn: Context-Sensitive Learning Services in Smart Industrial Production

Systematic engineering and piloting of work-process learning services in China. Partners: Lyncronize, BZ Kassel, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Kassel (Netzwerk Hessen-China), B. Braun Melsungen AG.

role
Author of the proposal; project lead; postdoc to Tim Weinert
period
Oct 2017 – Jul 2021
own share
approx. EUR 1.091m (with Business Didactics, Kassel)
total
approx. EUR 1.686m
key paper
CSCW journal 2023, co-creation system
BMBFkuLtig

kuLtig: Culture-Sensitive Learning Service Engineering

Development and evaluation of culture-sensitive learning services, piloted in China. Andreas Janson's doctoral project.

role
Research associate and PhD student
involvement
2013 – 2018
key paper
ICIS 2016, culture conflicts

## teaching innovation grants University of Kassel · ZLF

## field work KoLeArn · kuLtig · China

Much of the design-oriented research is done in the field. Impressions from field work in China for KoLeArn and kuLtig.

## media coverage selection