Aiding Users in Green IS Adoption with Persuasive Systems Design

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.

Yeşil Tedarikçi-Müşteri Bilgisi ve Örgütsel Yeşil Performans İlişkisinde Yeşil Bilgi Sistemlerinin Aracılık Rolü: Tekstil Endüstrisinde Ampirik Bir Analiz

“…In the literature, the differences and similarities between green information systems and green information technologies (GIT) are emphasised. In addition to approaches that see GIS and GIT as synonymous (Shevchuk & Oinas-Kukkonen, 2016), some studies accept GIT as a part of GIS (Melville, 2010).…”

The routledge handbook of catalysts for a sustainable circular economy

“…Table 16.3 illustrates these publications. Some of the non-point/badge awards include suggestions for physical rewards, most of them monetary (Santti et al, 2020;Shevchuk et al, 2019) and even penalisation (Gonzáles-Briones et al, 2019). This finding leads to several questions about the motivations behind engaging in actions for CE.…”

Understanding technological, cultural, and environmental motivators explaining the adoption of citizen science apps for coastal environment monitoring

“…Herein we adapted the concept to environmental performance expectancy, i.e., the degree to which the goals and objectives proposed by the environmental CS apps are achieved through the technology. From a logical point of view users must recognize the usefulness of the technology to consider adopting it (Shevchuk & Oinas-Kukkonen, 2020). In this regard, it should be said that performance expectancy is usually indicated to be one of the most important drivers of technology adoption in many areas.…”