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Action and concern about climate change keep increasing. Yet, the climate crisis has traditionally been perceived as far-away and abstract. It has been argued that forms of psychological distance such as geographic (it will not affect my local area) and ...

Mobile technologies provide a unique opportunity for practitioners to identify users’ real-time context and provide personalized interventions to influence their behaviors. However, less is known about a way to improve the effectiveness of mobile health ...

This paper addresses how real-time weather information acquired through mobile technology can be leveraged to enhance the efficacy of mobile interventions for spurring users’ healthier behaviors. Through a field experiment that each participant experience ...

Organizations use a plethora of methods and tools to help their members solve problems effectively. Yet the specifics of how individuals solve problems remain largely unexplored. We propose and test a cognitive model of problem solving that integrates ...

In jobs in which workers have the flexibility to decide how much work to supply, such as in the gig economy, the effect of a wage change on work supply can be hard to predict. A wage increase offers workers the opportunity to make more money. At the same ...

This study examines the challenges faced by construction companies in their digital transformation, specifically custom home builders. Despite the widespread use of the term, many companies have yet to fully embrace the value of digital ...

Background: Risk-taking is prevalent in a host of activities performed by software engineers on a daily basis, yet there is scant research on it. Aims and Method: We study if software engineers' risk-taking is affected by framing effects and by ...

Making framing judgments is at the heart of design. When faced with complex, open-ended situations, designers need to exercise good judgment to identify the core of the problem at hand and set the boundaries of the conceptual space through which the ...

Studies on human decision-making focused on humanitarian aid have found that cognitive biases can hinder the fair allocation of resources. However, few HCI and Information Visualization studies have explored ways to overcome those cognitive biases. This ...

This study uses novel deep learning-based language models to extract meaningful information from vast chunks of textual data from Twitter on the competing narratives of the recent Syrian immigration to Turkey. Our analysis identifies five main topics in ...

Although studies show that organizations engaged in controversial actions often aim to minimize the release of threatening information, scholars know relatively little about what may prompt organizations to increase transparency in these situations. In ...

• An empirical investigation of privacy discourse by policy and technological elites.

This paper outlines the development of a pattern language for design solutions to the emerging challenges of delivering learning and teaching in a hybridised setting. The term ‘hybrid learning spaces’ has become commonplace in recent years and has been ...

A cookie banner pops up when a user visits a website for the first time, requesting consent to the use of cookies and other trackers for a variety of purposes. Unlike prior work that has focused on evaluating the user interface (UI) design of cookie ...

This pilot project conducted an AB test to see whether inclusion of an autonomy framed appeal in announcement of organizational cybersecurity training influenced training completion or time to training completion. The interim results, which ...

This study was aimed to contribute to understanding how networked yet fragmented online actors create meaning in digital media–enabled movements like #MeToo. By drawing upon a multidimensional framing analysis, this study investigated how personal action ...

Media bias and its extreme form, fake news, can decisively affect public opinion. Especially when reporting on policy issues, slanted news coverage may strongly influence societal decisions, e.g., in democratic elections. Our paper makes three ...

The users' positive or negative attitude towards robots is a crucial factor in human-robot interaction (HRI). We conducted a preliminary online study comparing a storytelling scenario including personal respectively impersonal framing to investigate ...

In this study, we adapted the notion of framing, a theoretical construct that refers to a person's expectations about social spaces (Goffman, 1974), to investigate whether teachers viewed computational thinking (CT) according to subject-specific frames. ...

Hate groups are increasingly using multiple social media platforms to promote extremist ideologies. Yet we know little about their communication practices across platforms. How do hate groups (or "in-groups"), frame their hateful agenda against the ...

We study a rebate program in the credit card industry where the firm automatically processed the rebate earned by consumers with flexible and effortless redemption opportunities in future transactions. Contrary to what the normative economic theory would ...