The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)  is considered the oldest scientific conference in the field of information and system sciences. In its 59th edition in January 2026, it once again brought together researchers from around the world to discuss current developments and innovative research.

The Department of Information Systems was represented at the conference with three research contributions:

• Marie Griesbach presented her paper “Towards Simulating User Behavior for Automating Usability Tests by Employing Large Language Models” (co-authors: Janina Lütke Stockdiek, Hendrik Winkelmann, and Christian Grimme) in the Human-Computer Interaction track. The paper examines the usability testing capabilities of LLMs by employing it to autonomously navigate and interact with applications in order to complete tasks. The generated streams of thought are then compared with human think-aloud protocols.
• Mara Burger presented her paper “Designing Explainable AI: The Case of Dashboard Design for Fraud Detection in Public Transport Ticketing Systems” (co-authors: Hans-Henning Näscher, Gregor Kipping, Michael Gau, and Jan vom Brocke), which focuses on the design of an algorithm for fraud detection in public transport ticketing systems.
• The paper “Law Meets GenAI: Using Artificial Intelligence to Derive Conceptual Models from Legal Regulations” by Binh An Patrick Nguyen, Hendrik Scholta, David Roth-Isigkeit, Christian Djeffal, and Friedrich Chasin examines the use of generative AI to derive conceptual models from by administration lawyers. Notably, the German word “doch (but)” prompted the AIs to perform actions that, according to their statements, had not previously been possible, such as creating process models.