Falco Korn, doctoral researcher at the Chair of Information Systems, Digital Information and Performance Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, has been accepted to the Doctoral Consortium of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2026 with his dissertation project "A Multi-Method Study of Social Media-Driven Academic Procrastination Among University Students and the Design of Context-Sensitive Digital Micro-Interventions".

The ECIS 2026 Doctoral Consortium is a highly selective event: participation is limited to 20 doctoral students, with each university permitted to nominate only one candidate. The consortium will take place June 12–14, 2026, at Villa Gallarati Scotti, a historic 18th-century estate near Milan, ahead of the main ECIS conference (June 15–17).

The dissertation project addresses a pressing challenge of contemporary academic life. Students increasingly procrastinate through social media, a phenomenon Korn conceptualizes as Social Media-Driven Academic Procrastination (SMAP). At the heart of the research is the question of how personalized, digital micro-interventions can reduce SMAP in a sustainable and theoretically grounded way. Methodologically, the project follows the echeloned Design Science Research approach by Tuunanen et al. (2024), which links problem and solution spaces across validated, self-contained stages. Through a combination of methods (e.g. in-depth interviews, structural equation modeling and prototype development), the project aims to develop an empirically grounded understanding of SMAP mechanisms, and from that, a class of archetype-specific, context-sensitive micro-interventions. The resulting design knowledge is intended to be transferable beyond the university context to related application areas.