Designing Conversational Agents for Search String Development in Literature Reviews
Daniel Bierschwale, Phillip O. Gottschewski-Meyer, Thorsten Schoormann, Ralf Knackstedt
Communications of the Association for Information Systems 58, 2026

Co-founder and Managing Partner
Daniel Bierschwale founded BIST Consulting together with Paul-Ferdinand Steuck in 2018 and runs the company as managing partner. He advises companies in Hanover and across Germany on AI, processes and software, and builds the solutions himself. As a data protection officer certified by TÜV NORD, with experience in data protection at an international corporation, he designs every solution for data protection from the start.
Generative AI in design science research
He studied business informatics, completing his bachelor's degree at Hochschule Hannover in 2020 and his master's at the University of Hildesheim with distinction in 2023. Since then he has been a research associate in information systems and enterprise modelling at the University of Hildesheim, doing his PhD on generative AI in design science research. His research won the Best Research Paper award at RVI23 and was nominated for the Best Paper Award at HICSS 2026.
Daniel Bierschwale, Phillip O. Gottschewski-Meyer, Thorsten Schoormann, Ralf Knackstedt
Communications of the Association for Information Systems 58, 2026
Ralf Knackstedt, Daniel Bierschwale, Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Anne Meißner
Innovative Hochschullehre auf dem digitalen Campus, Hildesheimer Universitätsschriften 44, 2026
Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Daniel Bierschwale, Ralf Knackstedt
HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2026
Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Daniel Bierschwale, Raphael Schmidt, Mohammad Shidujaman, Ralf Knackstedt
Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2026, LNCS 16703, 2026
Daniel Bierschwale, Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer, David Walter, Ralf Knackstedt
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2026, 2026
Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Marco Di Maria, Daniel Bierschwale, Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer, Ralf Knackstedt
Artificial Intelligence in HCI, HCII 2025, LNAI 15820, 2025
Marco Di Maria, Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Bijan Khosrawi-Rad, Daniel Bierschwale
INFORMATIK 2025, LNI P-366, 2025
Daniel Bierschwale, Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer, Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Ralf Knackstedt
Learning and Collaboration Technologies, HCII 2025, LNCS 15807, 2025
Paul Steuck, Phillip Oliver Gottschewski-Meyer, Daniel Bierschwale, Ralf Knackstedt
Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024, LNISO 84, 2024
Marco Di Maria, Daniel Bierschwale, Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Ralf Knackstedt
Rechts- und Verwaltungsinformatik, RVI 2023, LNI P-341, 2023
Daniel Bierschwale, Paul-Ferdinand Steuck, Ralf Knackstedt
Rechts- und Verwaltungsinformatik, RVI 2023, LNI P-341, 2023
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