We are delighted that the paper "Designing Context-Aware Urban Citizen Science Systems for Sustained Citizen Engagement: A Pilot Study in Urban Heat Island Detection" by Niklas von Heyden (KIT, WIN, h-lab) and Jeff Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland) won the 1st Runner Up Award for Best Conference Short Paper at ECIS 2025.  

This short paper explores the design of context-aware urban citizen science systems in the context of urban heat island detection to address the challenge of sustained participant engagement. It follows a design science research approach and proposes initial design requirements and principles for enhancing citizen science systems. These principles include context-aware participation timing, real-time feedback, and adaptive task complexity, aimed at fostering satisfaction, perceived usefulness, and expectation confirmation.  

We warmly congratulate the authors!