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  • Retail apocalypse: The case of Sears Canada Inc. 

    In an increasingly digital world, retailers have never faced such a competitive environment. Many large chains have been forced to either radically transform their business models or cease operations. Such radical changes ...

  • An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents 

    Gone, K. P. & Conrad, C. (2020). An investigation of differences in sentiment from tweets related to COVID-19 between Canada and US residents. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2020).
    Goal: This study aims to understand how individuals communicated and acknowledged to COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. It mainly focused on identifying and demonstrating the differences in the perspective of United States and ...

  • Measuring Mind Wandering during Online Lectures Assessed with EEG 

    Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ...

  • Measuring Mind Wandering During Online Lectures Assessed With EEG 

    Conrad, C., & Newman, A. (2021). Measuring mind wandering during online lectures assessed with EEG. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 455. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.697532
    Mind wandering can inhibit learning in multimedia classrooms, such as when watching online lectures. One explanation for this effect is that periods of mind wandering cause learners’ attention to be redirected from the ...

  • Is Our Ability to Detect Errors an Indicator of Mind Wandering? An Experiment Proposal 

    Conrad, C, Klesel, M., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., Oschinsky F. and Usai, F. (2022). Is your ability to detect errors an indicator of mind wandering? An experiment proposal. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.
    Mind wandering could have a variety of impacts on information systems phenomena, not least long monotonous tasks. Unfortunately, mind wandering states are difficult to measure objectively. In this paper, we describe ...

  • Towards Mind Wandering Adaptive Online Learning and Virtual Work Experiences 

    Conrad, C. and Newman, A. J. (2022). Towards mind wandering adaptive online learning and virtual work experiences. Proceedings of the 2022 NeuroIS Retreat.
    NeuroIS researchers have become increasingly interested in the design of new types of information systems that leverage neurophysiological data. In this paper we describe the results of machine learning analysis which ...

  • Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications 

    Conrad, C. D., Aziz, J. R., Henneberry, J. M., & Newman, A. J. (2022). Do emotions influence safe browsing? Toward an electroencephalography marker of affective responses to cybersecurity notifications. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16.
    Cybersecurity notifications play an important role in encouraging users to use computers safely. Emotional reactions to such notifications are known to positively influence users’ adherence to these notifications, though ...

  • University life has gone digital: influences of institutional mobile social network use during the COVID-19 emergency 

    Conrad, C., Moylan, R. and O. Diaz, G. (2022). University life has gone digital: Influences of institutional mobile social network use during the Covid-19 emergency. Library Hi Tech ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-12-2021-0458
    Purpose Many universities implemented institutional social networking apps as an alternative to in-person social experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this study aims to explore previously identified factors ...

  • Quality is more important than quantity: Social presence and workplace ergonomics control predict perceived remote work performance 

    Conrad, C., Klesel, M., Oschinsky, F., Mayhew, K., O’Neil, K., and Usai, F. (2023). It’s not the number of meetings: Social presence and workplace control predict perceived remote work performance. Proceedings of the 2023 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
    The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a widespread disruption to the way that we work. One of its lasting consequences will be the ubiquity of remote work. The effective use of collaboration tools is therefore a critical factor ...