Description
This volume, LNCS 16607, constitutes the thoroughly refereed prototypes and research-in-progress proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2026, which was held in Münster, Germany, during June 8 10, 2026.Given the large number of high-quality contributions, the 2026 proceedings are published in three volumes: LNCS 16605 and 16606 include all accepted full papers, while LNCS 16607 contains the accepted prototype and research-in-progress papers. DESRIST 2026 received a total of 231 submissions across all tracks and formats. The 23 research-in-progress papers and 14 prototype papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions across these two categories.The papers presented in LNCS 16607 are organized in the following topical sections:Design for Better Futures: Beyond the Science of the Artificial (Theme Track); From Insight to Impact (General Track); The Future of Financial Services; Future of Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Design; Future of Healthcare and Wellbeing; Future of Design and Entrepreneurship; Future of Responsible and Sustainable Design; Future of Design Science Education; Future of Design Science Methodology; Future of Ecosystems for Design Science Research; Prototypes Track.
.- Theme Track Design for Better Futures: Beyond the Science of the Artificial.
.- The LLM as Adversary: Designing Dirty Audit Assessments to Elicit Evaluative Judgement in Education.
.- General Track From Insight to Impact.
.- Towards a Theory of Performance Measurement System Design.
.- Customer Contribution-Aware Incident Management: A Problem Space Explication for Digitally Mediated Service Episodes.
.- Nascent Design Principles for Human-Machine Interfaces in Airborne Manned-Unmanned Teaming.
.- Designing a Socio-Technical Support System for Reuse in Low-Code Development: An Echeloned Design Science Research Study.
.- Towards a Multi-agent LLM-based Tutoring Tool for Mathematical Argumentation Skills.
.- A DSR-Informed Intervention to Strengthen Self-Determination in Blended Professional Learning.
.- The Future of Financial Services.
.- AI-Enabled Automation of High-Risk Decision-Making Processes.
.- Future of Data-Driven and AI-Enabled Design.
.- Making Informal Work Visible: Multimodal AI-Enabled Process Discovery in Public-Sector Meetings.
.- Improving Human Foraging with Hybrid Semantic Graph Retrieval and LLM-Supported Meaning Making.
.- Design Knowledge Quality in Human-AI Co-design.
.- Designing Process Mining to Mitigate Electronic Performance Monitoring Risks.
.- Future of Healthcare and Wellbeing.
.- When Digital Tools Enter the Playground: Designing Information Systems for IT-Distant Care Contexts.
.- A Theory-Driven LLM Agent Design for Generating Synthetic Data in Tele-Triage.
.- An Agentic Workflow for Patient Medical History Summarization and Visualization.
.- Future of Design and Entrepreneurship.
.- Leading Through Change: Designing an AI Companion for Decision Support from Continuous Conversation with Strategic Decision Makers.
.- Future of Responsible and Sustainable Design.
.- Balancing Openness and Security in Digital Energy Ecosystems.
.- Future of Design Science Education.
.- Integration is Key: Designing AI-based Teaching Assistants for ERP Education.
.- Redesigning the Master s Thesis for Epistemic Adequacy Using Design Science Re-search in a Generative AI (LLM) Supported Context.
.- Future of Design Science Methodology.
.- Reuse in Design Science Research: The Example of a Distributed Ledger Technology Design Knowledge Library.
.- Dynamic Design Thinking, Building Innovation into the DSR Process.
.- Future of Ecosystems for Design Science Research.
.- Designing Open Access Platforms for Multilingual Language Awareness in Early Childhood Education.
.- From Collaboration to Toolkit: Applying eDSR in a Generative AI Knowledge Man-agement Project.
.- Prototypes Track.
.- Navigating complexities at home: A residential decision support system for flexible electricity consumption.
.- Selbstlernen.app 2.0 A Feedback-Oriented Mobile Application for Supporting Self-Regulated Learning in Higher Education.
.- Contextualized Interpretability for AI Model Quality Assessment: Designing an LLM-Based Decision Companion for Domain Experts in LCNC Environments.
.- Automated Documentation for Reproducible Research: The Reproducible AI Docu-mentation (RepAID) Tool.
.- PaperMate: A Prototype for Supporting Comprehension of Scientific Texts for Non Native Academic Readers.
.- Designing and Building Personalized Agentic AI for Job Seekers.
.- LitFlow: An integrated, AI-augmented systematic literature review platform.
.- Prototyping VR Training Using Design Thinking and ADR.
.- Developing AI Literacy of Novice Adult Learners Outside of Formal Education Set-tings A Prototype.
.- TerrainGrade: An Artifact for Flood Sus
