Location & approach

via car

The campus of TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. It is best to park in the large parking lot on Otto-Hahn-Straße.

via train and bus

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen, and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447, and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

via H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund University is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

via airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Location & approach

via car

The campus of TU Dortmund University is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits. It is best to park in the large parking lot on Otto-Hahn-Straße.

via train and bus

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen, and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447, and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

via H-Bahn

One of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund University is the H-Bahn. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

via airplane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes just over 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there to the university by S-Bahn. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university's train station.

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Research

Pauline Speckmann receives the Vinton G. Cerf Best Student-Authored Paper Award

06/12/2025

Jan vom Brocke übergibt den Best Student-Authored Paper Award an Pauline Speckmann

"Interactive Explainable Intelligent Systems: ..." was honored as the best student paper

Pauline Speckmann was awarded the Vinton G. Cerf Best Student-Authored Paper Award at the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) 2025. The conference took place in Jamaica this year, and the award was presented by Prof. Dr. Jan vom Brocke during the conference dinner.

The winning paper is entitled "Interactive Explainable Intelligent Systems: Requirements, Design Principles, and Prototypical Implementation" (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93979-2_4) and was co-authored with Mario Nadj and Christian Janiesch. The paper presents design principles (DPs) for interactive, explainable intelligent systems that aim in particular to strengthen user agency. Five different user groups are considered and first classifications of relevant reference methods are proposed. By instantiating the principles in a prototype and subsequently evaluating it, valuable practical insights were gained.

Also at DESRIST, Alexander van der Staay presented his joint paper with Ralf Fischer, Martin Wischnewski, Katharina Poitz and Christian Janiesch entitled "Reflective Design Theorizing with User Interviews: A Case Study for AI Energy Labels" (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93979-2_5). The paper extends the methodology of Design Science Research (DSR) and deals with the use of user interviews and grounded theory in the extraction of design knowledge from completed IT artifacts that were originally developed without DSR reference. The methodological contribution is demonstrated using energy labels for AI models, which are intended to communicate important properties such as accuracy or energy consumption in an understandable way.

We congratulate Pauline Speckmann on this recognition and are delighted with the commitment of both young researchers from our chair at this renowned international conference!