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Can feedback nudges enhance user satisfaction? Kano analysis for different eco-feedback nudge features in a smart home app
No full textDigital nudging in smart home apps promotes energy conservation behavior in everyday life, helping to mitigate climate change. Prior research demonstrates the promising effect of the digital nudging element eco-feedback supporting behavioral change. However, the effect depends on adopting and using smart home apps with eco-feedback integrated. Hence, investigating user preferences concerning eco-feedback nudges is crucial in developing smart home apps that satisfy users. Considering the eco-feedback nudge features derived from a structured literature review, we conducted two user surveys approximately one year apart and assessed user satisfaction using the Kano model. The Kano model categorizes these features according to whether the user expects the feature or not, and whether the feature has a positive effect on user satisfaction when implemented or a negative effect when not implemented. As a result, we examine the impact of different eco-feedback nudge features on user satisfaction. Our study evaluates the robustness of user satisfaction over time and thereby adds another perspective to the traditional focus on the effectiveness of these nudges. Combining both perspectives - effectiveness and user satisfaction - is valuable for developers and providers of smart home apps to suggest which eco-feedback nudge features to incorporate.3
The Impact of Digital Technologies on Knowledge Work: Skills in Transition
Full text link141158Die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und der technologische Fortschritt haben in der Arbeitswelt Auswirkungen auf die Ausbildung von Fachkräften und insbesondere auf die geforderten Kompetenzen für einen langfristigen Unternehmenserfolg. Neben klassischen Basiskompetenzen, wie beispielsweise kritischem Denken, treten Digitalkompetenzen wie beispielswiese die Verarbeitung von Informationen zunehmend in den Vordergrund. Deshalb bestehen die Fragen: Was sind durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung relevante Digitalkompetenzen in der Wissensarbeit? Wie präsentieren und vermitteln Unternehmen und Hochschulen diese Digitalkompetenzen und welche Handlungsempfehlungen lassen sich diesbezüglich ableiten? Durch eine Literaturrecherche in praxisnaher und wissenschaftlicher Literatur wurden Digitalkompetenzen gesammelt, definiert und klassifiziert. Zwölf wichtige Digitalkompetenzen werden herausgestellt und es wird beobachtet, ob und wie sie in der Praxis bereits in betriebswirtschaftlichen Studiengängen, unternehmensinternen sowie -externen Off-the-job-Weiterbildungen und im Recruiting Beachtung finden. Dies ermöglicht das Ableiten von Handlungsempfehlungen für Hochschulen und Unternehmen, sowie deren Zusammenarbeit. Zusätzlich verhelfen die Ergebnisse Weiterbildungen entsprechend an die neuen Gegebenheiten anzupassen und die Wichtigkeit der Digitalkompetenzen für den Berufseinstieg und die berufliche Laufbahn zu verdeutlichen.Advancing digitalization and technological progress within the world of work are having an impact on the training of skilled workers and, in particular, on the competencies required for long-term corporate success. In addition to classic basic competencies, such as critical thinking, digital competencies, such as information handling, are coming to the fore. Therefore, the questions arise: What are relevant digital competencies in knowledge work as a result of ongoing digitization? How do companies and universities present and teach these digital competencies and which recommendations for action can be derived in this regard? Digital competencies were collected, defined, and classified through a literature review of practical and scientific literature. Twelve important digital competencies are highlighted and it is observed whether and how they are already being taken into account in practice in business degree programs, internal and external off-the-job company training, and recruiting. This makes it possible to derive recommendations for action for universities and companies, as well as their cooperation. In addition, the results help to adapt further education to the new conditions and to emphasize the importance of the competencies for career entry and career development.61
Dynamic Capabilities for the Twin Transformation Climb: A Capability Maturity Model
No full text22052226Digital transformation and sustainability transformation are at the top of organizations’ agendas to remain competitive. While guidance on both transformations exists separately, even more research on integrating digital and sustainability transformation, namely twin transformation, is required. Specifically, deeper knowledge about relevant twin transformation capabilities and progress is needed for effective implementation. To enhance the understanding and provide corresponding guidance, we developed a twin transformation capability maturity model focusing on dynamic capabilities required to realize twin transformation based on a structured literature review and interviews with 13 experts. Further, we demonstrated its use with a technology service provider. Our contribution is twofold: First, accounting for organizations’ twin transformation starting points in terms of their digitalization and sustainability experience and expertise, we reveal three pathways to becoming a twin transformer. Second, our work provides an overview of 45 relevant twin transformation capabilities structured along six capability dimensions and four maturity stages. Our work also provides relevant practical implications supporting organizations in assessing their twin transformation maturity building the foundation for targeted capability development.26
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Designing Conversational Agents to Promote Environmentally Friendly User Behavior
Full text linkConversational agents are increasingly integrated into daily life, profoundly influencing user behavior. However, current conversational agent designs often prioritize functional goals over fostering sustainable and meaningful user interactions. With growing consumer interest in environmental sustainability and increasing societal and political pressure, there is a clear need to incorporate environmental considerations into conversational agent designs. Utilizing a design science research approach, we conducted a structured literature review, expert interviews, and a focus group to develop design knowledge for environmental sustainability-focused conversational agents. Our findings introduce a novel category of digital services aimed at promoting environmentally friendly user behavior. This design knowledge comprises four meta-requirements and six design principles, contributing to the fields of green information systems and digital responsibility. It offers theoretical insights and practical guidance for developers. The proposed design knowledge provides a pathway for businesses to enhance their sustainability efforts while fostering environmentally friendly user behavior
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Designing Conversational Agents to Promote Environmentally Friendly User Behavior
No full textConversational agents are increasingly integrated into daily life, profoundly influencing user behavior. However, current conversational agent designs often prioritize functional goals over fostering sustainable and meaningful user interactions. With growing consumer interest in environmental sustainability and increasing societal and political pressure, there is a clear need to incorporate environmental considerations into conversational agent designs. Utilizing a design science research approach, we conducted a structured literature review, expert interviews, and a focus group to develop design knowledge for environmental sustainability-focused conversational agents. Our findings introduce a novel category of digital services aimed at promoting environmentally friendly user behavior. This design knowledge comprises four meta-requirements and six design principles, contributing to the fields of green information systems and digital responsibility. It offers theoretical insights and practical guidance for developers. The proposed design knowledge provides a pathway for businesses to enhance their sustainability efforts while fostering environmentally friendly user behavior
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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