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Shevchuk, N.; Oinas-Kukkonen, H. Aiding Users in Green IS Adoption with Persuasive Systems Design. Urban Sci. 2020, 4, 52. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4040052

Aiding users in green IS adoption with persuasive systems design

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Author: Shevchuk, Nataliya1; Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri1
Organizations: 1Oulu Advanced Research on Service and Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, FinlandOulu Advanced Research on Service and Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland
Format: article
Version: published version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 1 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202102094103
Language: English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
Publish Date: 2021-02-09
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Abstract

Green information systems (IS) is a research domain that contributes to finding solutions for fostering environmental behavior in individuals, organizations, and communities. So far, researching Green IS for individual users has been less abundant and requires more insight. Users’ engagement with technologies start from adoption. Green IS challenges users to modify their lifestyles in order to achieve sustainable behavior patterns. This article is focused on persuasive Green IS, which have in-built features to convince users to modify their lifestyles and to improve technology adoption intention. In the theoretical background, main concepts, especially sustainable behavior, Green IS, IS adoption, persuasive systems, and persuasive systems design (PSD) model are presented. In this article, we analyzed three studies that focused on individual sustainable behavior change with persuasive Green IS. Overviews of these studies are presented and the studies were analyzed as a whole. The reviewed studies suggest that the PSD model has a high potential for becoming a tool for Green IS enhancement. The key themes identified from the studies bring value to both academics and practitioners, as well as suggest directions for researching the individual behavior change with persuasive Green IS in the future.

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Series: Urban science
ISSN: 2413-8851
ISSN-E: 2413-8851
ISSN-L: 2413-8851
Volume: 4
Issue: 4
Article number: 52
DOI: 10.3390/urbansci4040052
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.3390/urbansci4040052
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 113 Computer and information sciences
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