[AISWorld] Final CfP // HICSS Minitrack on Behavioral Economics in the Digital Economy

[Markus Weinmann]

Dear friends and colleagues

We would like to invite you to submit to our minitrack on
'Behavioral Economics in the Digital Economy: Digital Nudging and Interface
Design.'

Please find the CfP below.

Kind regards,
Markus Weinmann & Christoph Schneider

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BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: DIGITAL NUDGING AND
INTERFACE DESIGN

Details:
* Part of the Internet and the Digital Economy Track
* Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu
* Hyatt Regency Maui
* January 4–7, 2022

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IMPORTANT DATES

* June 15 | 11:59 pm HST: Paper Submission Deadline

* Aug. 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
* Sept. 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication


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MINI-TRACK DESCRIPTION

As humans, we constantly need to make decisions about various aspects of
our lives--ranging from relatively minor decisions (such as choices between
two candy bars) to decisions with long-term ramifications (such as choices
between home financing options). At the same time, we
face cognitive limitations, and our decisions are influenced by various
heuristics and biases, either for the good or bad. In light of humans'
bounded rationality, the field of behavioral economics examines the effects
of psychological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors on judgment
and decision making of individuals and organizations. As decisions are
increasingly made in online environments, understanding economic behavior
in digital environments becomes ever more important.

Behavioral economics has reinforced the point that the context matters when
making judgments or decisions. Thus, people's decisions are not only
influenced by the content of choices but also the presentation of choices.
That is, the design of the decision environment can 'nudge' people into
certain behaviors. Coined by behavioral economists, 'nudging' describes how
even minor changes to the decision environment influence choices, typically
unnoticed by the decision maker. As any decision is influenced by the
decision environment the presentation will always (intentionally or
unintentionally) influence how people actually make their choices.

As decisions are increasingly made online, the concept of 'digital nudging'
extends 'nudging' to the digital environment, referring to both the design
and effects of nudges in digital decision environments--i.e., the use of
user-interface design elements to guide people's behavior on online
platforms.

The main purpose of this minitrack is to explore and extend, as well as
exchange, research related to behavioral economics and nudging in the
context of information systems design and the digital
economy. Specifically, this mini-track aims to examine the design, main
applications, and effects of digital nudging in information systems design,
in particular, research with an emphasis on the effects of interface design
on users' behavior, judgment, and decision making in Internet-based
systems. We welcome papers that draw on or combine behavioral research
methods (e.g., experimentation, survey, case study, action research), and
design science approaches.

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TOPICS

* Applications of behavioral economics concepts to information system design
* Design of online choice architectures
* Information processing for decision making
* Influence of information presentation on consumption behavior (for
example, feedback mechanisms in website design and sustainable behaviors)
* Framing effects in website design
* Impact of anchoring effects on online judgment and decision making
* Impact of behavioral economics principles and website design
implementation on privacy and trust
* Issues related to behavioral design principles and security
* Impact of website design on loss aversion and risk perception/evaluation
* Impact of digital nudges on online judgment and decision making
* Website designs/elements that encourage rational thinking and/or nudge
users into certain behaviors
* Issues related to dynamic website design and interactive decision making
* Website design and preference building effects
* Cognitive, emotional, and social factors and information systems design
* Applications of behavioral economics principles in online platforms that
influence users' behaviors (for example, in online auctions and
e-marketplaces, crowdfunding platform, mobility platforms, and others)
* Ethical issues of digital nudging

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MINI-TRACK CHAIRS

Markus Weinmann (Primary Contact)
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
weinmann at rsm.nl

Christoph Schneider

IESE Business School

cschneider at iese.edu