The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) has accepted the paper “Increasing Label Quality with Interactive Image Labeling Systems: An Explanatory Design Theory” co-authored by Stefan Morana, Jasper Feine, and Alexander Maedche for publication. Drawing on the theory of interactive media effects, we performed a comprehensive design science research project following the design explanatory design theory genre: We derived design requirements and design principles for interactive image labeling systems that support interactivity-based improvements in label quality. We evaluated our proposed design in two evaluation episodes and demonstrated its positive impact on label quality in a real-world context with crowd workers. The study contributes to existing research by providing a solution to the critical challenge of collecting high-quality labels for artificial intelligence-based information systems. Furthermore, we illustrate how the genre of explanatory design theory can bridge the gap between design science research and empirical research. On this basis, the paper offers a blueprint for embedding empirical findings into explanatory design theory to generate prescriptive knowledge. 

 
A preprint is available via: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais_preprints/236/