- Enrico Rukzio: admission to the “Junges Kolleg” of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of the Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- Enrico Rukzio: Best Paper Awards at the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2011); 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (2011); 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2012)
- Matthias Book und Enrico Rukzio: admission to the Global Young Faculty of the Stiftung Mercator
- Kim Lauenroth: Award of the Sparkasse Essen for the best dissertation in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Tim Jonischkat: best Master’s thesis in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
