Why Your Favorite App May Fail Abroad
Why do some apps fail in foreign markets? Examine how cultural distance and investor selection/diversity affects app success or failure abroad.
07/30/2024 | By Alyssa Riley; Varun Grover
Yet Another Reason to Hate System Delays
System delays harm UX, job satisfaction, revenue, and learning complex material; new research explores why they affect your brain they way they do.
06/25/2024 | By Alyssa Riley; Kevin Harmon
How the Pandemic Altered Mobile App Usage
The research found that after the pandemic, those who lacked relatedness browsed much more frequently and sourced both more information and materials.
05/22/2024 | By Nabiha Khetani, research by Varun Grover
How Healthcare Apps Can Help or Hinder Behavior Change
Want patients to have make healthier choices? There's an app for that. But is it the right app? Improving app UX may help patients more than expected.
04/16/2024 | By Mitchell Simpson; Parvin Hashemi and Rajiv Sabherwal
How Security and Privacy Concerns Shape App Usage
Privacy and security concerns affect mobile app usage post-download. ISO standards don't improve user trust, but usefulness can offset concerns.
02/20/2024 | By Kaslyn Tidmore, Varun Grover, and Rajiv Sabherwal
How Information Volume and Member Characteristics Affect Group Decision Making
More information helps, but only to a point; in groups, how much info helps decision making? At what point does info become counterproductive for members?
11/07/2023 | By Mitchell Simpson, Jeff Mullins, Rajiv Sabherwal
Does Tablet Usage in Patient Rooms Affect Physician Satisfaction?
Integration of tablets in consultation rooms empowers physicians to facilitate real-time patient education and optimizes the decision-making process.
10/31/2023 | By Nabiha Khetani, Rajiv Sabherwal
Rethinking Why and When We Trust Information Technologies
Trust matters in IS research because new technologies will emerge, new forms of governance must be instituted, and new forms of transactions will develop.
09/14/2023 | By Ryan Sheets, Mary Lacity, Sebastian Schuetz, Le Kuai, and Zachary Steelman
Feel Like Sharing? How Emotion Affects Knowledge Seeking and Sharing
Explore the connection between successful knowledge management strategies and how employees feel about the information they encounter at work.
08/08/2023 | By Jack Travis, Rajiv Sabherwal
Building a ______ Metaverse: How Will We Fill in the Blanks?
We have tools like VR, AR, smart contracts, governance tokens, and SSI. How do we build a metaverse where innovation and creativity is accessible to everybody?
03/07/2023 | By Ryan Sheets, Mary Lacity, Jeff Mullins, Le Kuai
The Human Need for Ethical Guidelines Around ChatGPT
What to do about ChatGPT and generative AI technology? Businesses could use ethical guidelines and human editing to account for some of its cons.
03/03/2023 | By Cindy Moehring
Intrinsic Interest in IT
We know there's a gender disparity in STEM fields. Can we facilitate diversity by using an empathizing-systemizing model to evaluate interest in technology?
01/24/2023 | By Mitchell Simpson, Zachary Steeleman
Phishing for Billions: When Accuracy isn’t Enough
What convinces customers that anti-phishing software works? And what prevents them from relying on it? Learn how to educate your workforce about cybersecurity.
01/10/2023 | By Jack Travis, Zachary Steelman, Rhonda Syler
What Drives Problematic Technology Use?
How do technology habits devolve into dependencies? Find out how your device dependence might be contributing to your burnout and what you can do to stop it.
10/11/2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Zachary Steelman
Taking the Robot Out of the Human: Strategic Supply Chain Process Automation
Employees are wary of automation, but a streamlined supply chain is a huge asset to most companies. How does robotic process automation respond to this problem?
09/15/2022 | By Ryan Sheets, Remko van Hoek, Mary Lacity
Cents and Sensibility
Does it matter what investors say about stocks? Find out how pairing investor sentiment with quantitative data might help you more accurately evaluate stocks.
08/09/2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Vernon Richardson
Helping Older Workers Thrive: Managing the Effects of Technological Interruptions
Technostress affects all workers, but older workers feel it more profoundly; how can employers develop strategies to mediate these effects for older workers?
07/12/2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Varun Grover
The Unseen Benefits of E-commerce
Policies addressing highly visible e-commerce problems may do more harm than good, especially if they reinforce the status quo and foreclose on new ideas.
06/21/2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Robert Jensen, Brent Williams
Can Self-Sovereign Identity Deliver Business Value? Lessons Learned from the NHS
Investing in self-sovereign identity and digital passports paid dividends for the NHS during the pandemic; how can your firm use SSI to unlock business value?
04/19/2022 | By Ryan Sheets, Mary Lacity, Erran Carmel
Understanding User Perceptions of Privacy, Security Policies
With security, as with most things, seeing is believing. Find out how businesses can benefit from telling their customers about security improvements.
04/07/2022 | By Mitchell Simpson, Rajiv Sabherwal
How Human Is Too Human? How Human-like AI Affects Our Sense of Humanness
From consumer behavior to interpersonal relationships, artificial intelligence has changed our lives beyond measure. Scholars explore the effects of its use.
01/21/2022 | By Emilija Sarma, Mary Lacity
Technology-Mediated Interruptions and Work-Life Balance
What exactly can workers do about the technology-mediated interruptions (all the calls, IMs, emails, texts, and social media posts) they face each workday?
11/12/2021 | By Jeff L. Wright, Varun Grover
Fight Fire with Fire: How Bug Bounty Programs Improve Cybersecurity
As more and more companies rely on open-source software developers, crowdsourcing could help build security into software and focus on the prevention rather than the cure.
06/25/2021 | By Ryan Decker, Suresh Malladi, Hemang Subramanian
Information Systems: Connecting Technology to Business
Students who earn a degree in information systems take what they learn and apply it in jobs with all types of titles, from analysts to database administrators, to leaders on IT teams.
10/29/2020 | By Stephen Caldwell
With Big Data Comes Big Responsibility
With big data comes big responsibility — and today’s scholars must recognize that responsibility to preserve the future of IS studies.
10/23/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Varun Grover
Staying Connected: Is the World Ready for IoT Technology?
Twenty years ago, athletes used pedometers; today, they use Fitbits, Apple Watches, or even their smartphone to track their health.
08/14/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Rhonda A. Syler
Petty Cybercrime: How Modern Store Checkout Condones Shoplifting
University of Arkansas professors John A. Aloysius and Viswanath Venkatesh have been studying the use of mobile technologies in shopping contexts for several years now. In their 2019 article “Shoplifting in mobile checkout settings: cybercrime in retail stores,” coauthored with a Ph.D. student, Ankur Arora, they analyze mobile checkout theft.
07/17/2020 | By Michael Adkison, John A. Aloysius, Viswanath Venkatesh
A Barcode Scanner Darkly: AutoID and the Future of Interactive Mobile Apps
As Apple and Google collaborate with the CDC and begin beta testing their app, recognizing these researchers’ findings and suggestions from an unrelated study could be integral to developing an AutoID-based COVID-19 application.
06/26/2020 | By Michael Adkison, John A. Aloysius, Viswanath Venkatesh
Sharing is Caring: Why We Share Information in Online Discussion Groups
Despite the rapid increase in the number of telecommuting and teleconferencing services and chat apps due to remote working, that’s not a common adage you’ll hear your friends say. The truth is that online discussion communities, or ODCs, have their value in society.
05/15/2020 | By Michael Adkison, Rajiv Sabherwal