Dr Kenan Degirmenci

Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Biography
Kenan Degirmenci is a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and part of the Service Science Research Group. Further, he is the Deputy Academic Lead (Learning & Teaching) and the Subject Area Coordinator of the Bachelor of Information Technology course. He has received a Doctor of Economics (Institute of Information Systems) and a Dipl oec (Major in Information Systems) from the University of Hannover. His research focuses on analysing how information systems support individuals and organisations to improve decision-making. More specifically, he focuses on four aspects: (1) business analysis and decision modelling to understand decision-making, (2) quantitative research methods in information systems to evaluate decision-making, (3) digital services to motivate decision-making for sustainable behaviour change, and (4) psychometric analysis to improve information security and privacy decisions.He is an active core member of the Smart City Research Group, and he is currently working on a research project entitled "Local climate research to enable sustainable development" funded by the Queensland Government Department of State Development. His prior projects include research on a project funded by the Council on Australia Latin America Relations entitled "Australia-Brazil Smart City Research and Practice Forum", and an IFE Catapult project entitled "Mitigating urban heat", in which an Internet of things enabled wireless sensor network was implemented for environmental monitoring in Hamilton, QLD. Further prior projects include an ARC Discovery Grant funded project entitled "Developing a theory of green information systems", and a project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy entitled "Showcase electric mobility" at the University of Hannover in Germany in cooperation with industry partner Volkswagen.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Science,
School of Information Systems
Keywords
Information Systems, Business Analysis, Decision Modelling, Decision Making, Quantitative Research, Green IS, Information Security and Privacy
Discipline
Information Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Economics (Institute of Information Systems) (Leibniz Universitat Hannover)
- Dipl oec (Major in Information Systems) (Leibniz Universitat Hannover)
Professional memberships and associations
- Association for Information Systems (AIS)
- AIS Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIGGreen)
- AIS Special Interest Group on Adoption and Diffusion of IT (SIGADIT)
Teaching
Bachelor of Information Technology
- IAB260: Social Technologies (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer)
Master of Information Technology
- IFN558: Management Information Systems (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer)
- IFN561: Enterprise Systems Lifecycle Management (Unit Coordinator/Lecturer)
- IFN712: Research in IT Practice (Supervisor)
- INN701: Advanced Research Topics (Module Leader: Survey Method/Experimentation)
Selected publications
- Degirmenci K, Desouza K, Fieuw W, Watson R, Yigitcanlar T, (2021) Understanding policy and technology responses in mitigating urban heat islands: A literature review and directions for future research, Sustainable Cities and Society, 70.
- Yigitcanlar T, Degirmenci K, Butler L, Desouza K, (2022) What are the key factors affecting smart city transformation readiness? Evidence from Australian cities, Cities, 120.
- Degirmenci K, (2020) Mobile users' information privacy concerns and the role of app permission requests, International Journal of Information Management, 50, pp. 261-272.
- Shevchuk N, Degirmenci K, Oinas-Kukkonen H, (2019) Adoption of gamified persuasive systems to encourage sustainable behaviors: Interplay between perceived persuasiveness and cognitive absorption, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019, pp. 1-17.
- Degirmenci K, Shim J, Breitner M, Nolte F, Passlick J, (2019) Future of flexible work in the digital age: Bring your own device challenges of privacy protection, Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019, pp. 1-17.
- Degirmenci K, Breitner M, (2017) Consumer purchase intentions for electric vehicles: Is green more important than price and range?, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 51, pp. 250-260.
- Degirmenci K, (2017) Serious games for eco-effective transformations, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems, pp. 1-13.
- Recker J, Degirmenci K, (2016) Boosting green behaviors through information systems that enable environmental sensemaking, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), pp. 1-11.
- Degirmenci K, Katolla T, Breitner M, (2015) How can mobile applications reduce energy consumption? An experimental investigation of electric vehicles, Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), pp. 1-17.
- Degirmenci K, Guhr N, Breitner M, (2013) Mobile applications and access to personal information: A discussion of users' privacy concerns, Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013), pp. 1-21.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Kenan, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- An IS design framework fostering service adoption in EV Ecosytems
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Alistair Barros