Dr Sander Zwanenburg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He earned a Bachelor and a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and a PhD degree in Management Information Systems from The University of Hong Kong.
Sander's research interest lies in two main areas.
The psychology of personal IT use: Sander wrote his PhD dissertation on smartphone addiction. In Hong Kong and New Zealand, he has conducted experiments on the role of personal IT use on interruptions, attention, experience, and conflicted behaviour.
The development of measures and metrics: Aware of the gap between how we measure and how we need to measure in social science, Sander has also developed a passion to advance the field with better measurement methods and the development of valid metrics, in particular using questionnaire and bibliometric data.
Sander's work has been published in premier outlets including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), and Scientometrics.
He is Secretary of the Australasian Association for Information Systems, which is the regional chapter of the Association for Information Systems. He is ad-hoc reviewer for Information Systems Research (ISR), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), ICIS, CAIS, and others, and is member of the Association for Information Systems and the Academy of Management.
He has won Best Paper Awards on solo-authored papers in the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). All of the publications he led have appeared in venues that have been ranked A or A*.
Sander teaches 'Information Systems Strategy and Governance', 'Information and Communication Technology', and 'Research Methods for Digital Health'. He uses teaching cases in some of his courses.
He welcomes inquiries from students who would like to engage in projects in one or multiple of the research areas described above. Feel free to send an email.
Papers
COMP 111 Information and Communications Technology
INFO 302 Information Systems Strategy and Governance
Supervision
Currently supervising
Maryam Nakhoda
Graduated students
Wendy Wlasak
Publications
Tate, M., Zwanenburg, S., & Clarke, R. J. (2024). Generating stakeholder value through increasingly hybridized conferences: Insights from 30 years of ACIS conferences. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. Advance online publication. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol54/iss1/27/
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S. P., Vincent, K., Deng, J., Gurtner, M., Gage, R., Smith, M., & Signal, L. (2023). Kids’ digital distractions: An observation study of recorded everyday screentime by 12-year-olds. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). 110. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2023
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S., Tate, M., Johnstone, D., & Adie, B. (2023). Research methods in 30 years of information systems: A bibliometric trend study. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS): Diving into Uncharted Waters. 1328. [Full Paper]
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Nakhoda, M., Whigham, P., & Zwanenburg, S. (2023). Quantifying and addressing uncertainty in the measurement of interdisciplinarity. Scientometrics, 128, 6107-6127. doi: 10.1007/s11192-023-04822-2
Journal - Research Article
Wlasak, W., Zwanenburg, S. P., & Paton, C. (2023). Supporting autonomous motivation for physical activity with chatbots during COVID-19: Factorial experiment. JMIR Formative Research, 7, e38500. doi: 10.2196/38500
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S. P., & Tran, K. T. (2022). Digitally distracted: Development and examination of conflicted technology use. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). 71. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2022
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Gurtner, M., Smith, M., Gage, R., Howey-Brown, A., Wang, X., Latavao, T., Deng, J. D., Zwanenburg, S. P., Stanley, J., & Signal, L. (2022). Objective assessment of the nature and extent of children’s internet-based world: Protocol for the Kids Online Aotearoa study. JMIR Research Protocols, 11(10), e39017. doi: 10.2196/39017
Journal - Research Other
Regenbrecht, H., Zwanenburg, S., & Langlotz, T. (2022). Pervasive augmented reality: Technology and ethics. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 21(3), 84-91. doi: 10.1109/MPRV.2022.3152993
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S., Nakhoda, M., & Whigham, P. (2022). Toward greater consistency and validity in measuring interdisciplinarity: A systematic and conceptual evaluation. Scientometrics, 127, 7769-7788. doi: 10.1007/s11192-022-04310-z
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S., Nakhoda, M., & Whigham, P. (2021). A conceptual evaluation of measures of interdisciplinarity. In W. Glänzel, S. Heeffer, P.-S. Chi & R. Rousseau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics (ISSI). (pp. 1423-1431). International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (I.S.S.I.). Retrieved from https://www.issi-society.org
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Ott, C., John, S., Zwanenburg, S., Stanger, N., & Mills, S. (2021). Is this degree for me? Exploring computing students' study decisions. Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE). (pp. 96-105). New York, NY: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3441636.3442310
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2019). Focused immersion: When do information technology affordances disrupt it? Proceedings of the Australiasian Conference on Information Systems. (pp. 485-494). Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2019/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S., & Qureshi, I. (2019). Anticipating, avoiding, and alleviating measurement error: A synthesis of the literature with practical recommendations. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 23. doi: 10.3127/ajis.v23i0.1844
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S. P., & Farhoomand, A. (2018). Lenovo: Being on top in a declining industry. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 42, 17. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.04217
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2017, December). When information technology affordances distract rather than focus our attention. Verbal presentation at the 5th Changing Nature of Work (CNoW) Workshop: Working Smarter with ICT, Seoul, Korea.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2017). Towards a synthesis of the guidelines for the development of measurement. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS). Retrieved from https://www.acis2017.org/program/conference-program/conference-proceeding
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2016). Smartphone addiction: Construct development, measurement, and effects on performance (PhD). University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10722/233922
Awarded Doctoral Degree
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2015). Valid construct measurement using multiple models. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2015). How to tie a construct to indicators: Guidelines for valid measurement. Proceedings of the 36th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2015, December). Do IT breaks help replenish cognitive resources? A multi-method investigation into the effects of IT addiction on job performance. Verbal presentation at the 11th Special Interest Group (SIG) on Cognitive Research Workshop, Fort Worth, USA.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Zwanenburg, S. P., & Farhoomand, A. (2014). The Hong Kong Jockey Club: Transforming customer experience through information technology. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 34, 58.
Journal - Research Article
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2013). Information technology addiction: Construct development and measurement. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). 42. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
Zwanenburg, S. P. (2013). Information technology addiction: Construct development and effects on work performance. Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGHCI) Conference. 6. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper
BSc, MSc (RUG), PhD (HKU)