Centre for empirical research on information systems (CERIS)
About
Environment information
Centre for Empirical Research on Information Systems (CERIS) develops knowledge about the design, management and use of information systems. Practice-based research is central for us, and it is typically conducted in collaboration with companies or agencies. Researchers in CERIS employ a socio-technical perspective, which means an integrated view on emerging technologies and practices, where we focus on the following areas:
Information security management
Our research on information security focuses on its management aspects. We examine how conflicting priorities in employees’ daily work influence information security decisions and explore the role of information security culture in shaping an organisation’s security posture. Additionally, we are interested in improving the design and communication of information security policies to increase employees’ and users’ awareness of current rules and threats. To support information security managers in enhancing these areas within their organisations, we develop and design tools that support information security management systems, including both methods and software. One promising area of investigation is leveraging artificial intelligence (e.g., large language models) to improve the effectiveness of these tools. We also explore the impact of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, on information security management.
Automated decision-making
The main research questions center on how we can increase reliability, trustworthiness and transparency of decisions.
Informatics education
The most important research question concerns how we can deliver a high-quality informatics education. We apply teaching as research in our work on this and continuously monitor the outcomes of our education to improve it.
Improving teaching and learning is a continuous and dynamic process, just like research. The goal is to study what students have learned from the teaching methods applied. Teaching as research involves the deliberate, systematic, and reflective use of research methods to develop and implement teaching approaches that foster learning.
Areas we have focused include how to improve programming education through walkshops, how AI can be integrated into teaching, how AI can be used by teachers to enhance and streamline teaching, how to motivate students through gamification and pointsification, how to create well-functioning teams both in the classroom and online, and how to use the Community of Inquiry framework to help students learn complex theory in a short time.
Health and well-being
The main research questions revolve around how we can improve life quality.
Researchers
- Annika Andersson
- Panagiota Chatzipetrou
- Tanja E. Havstorm
- Shang Gao
- Åke Grönlund
- Muhammad Hanif
- Mathias Hatakka
- Karin Hedström
- Ann-Sofie Hellberg
- Sirajul Islam
- Fredrik Karlsson
- Gunnar Klein
- Ella Kolkowska
- Jenny Lagsten
- Mevludin Memedi
- Jonas Moll
- Johan Petersson
- Elham Rostami
- Kai Wistrand
- Leila Aro Sati, PhD student
- Andreas Ask, PhD student
- Petronella Ekström, PhD student
- Marcus Gerdin, PhD student
- Khando Khando, PhD student
- Fredric Skargren, PhD student
- Gomathi Thangavel, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- A digital index for evaluating and developing digitalisation in the public sector
- Acceptance factors of assistive technology solutions for elderly with cognitive disabilities
- Actionability in Information Security Policies
- Consistency of GPT Models in Classifying Natural Language Requirements
- Controlled treatment of opiate-requiring pain using biosensors - SENSOP
- Data collaboratives as a new form of innovation for addressing societal challenges in the age of data
- Electronic marketplaces - designing marketplace practises from a supplier perspective
- Enterprise Architecture: Thinking in local government eGov adoption
- Hands on the wheel? Managing automation processes in social work
- Improving Information Security Policy Design using AI
- IPID, research network
- Nordic eHealth for Patients: Benchmarking and Developing for the Future
- Privacy issues in management of intelligent systems in elderly care
- Remote monitoring of Parkinson's disease - Empowerment of patients and improved treatment using ICT-based tools (EMPARK)
- The impact of the use of social media for work from employees' perspectives
- Write to learn
Completed projects
- "The computer says no!" - a study about public sector legitimacy and citizen trust in e-government
- A design theory and a method for Value-based compliance
- Agricultural Market Information System
- Attitude
- Bangladesh Virtual Classroom
- Cargo cult behaviour in agile systems development
- Computerized tool-support for designing modular information security policies
- DemoNet
- Does group development improve End User Development?
- Enterprise thinking in eGovernment
- eParticipation in authoritarian countries
- e-services for all
- Evaluating capabilities - outcomes from ICT use in education
- Flow in game design
- Fuse (FUture Safe electronic identification)
- ICT supported study circle education in Kenya
- Impact of Digital Learning Technologies on Language Learning in Higher Education
- Implementing interoperability in the public sector
- Improving Efficiency in Product Creation of Complex Systems
- Information security and values in public e-services
- Information security culture in practice
- INTERORG
- ISO
- Leadership for a sustainable digital work environment - technology strategies and the borders or work life
- Learning from e-Learning
- MC Sandbox II
- Method for assessment of information assets
- MMC in a agile context
- One to one computing Evaluation Framework
- Overview on Swedish information security research
- PepNet
- Reuse of learning objects
- Security in cloud solutions
- Shop at home
- The Role of Guilt Proneness in Information Security
- The role of ICTs in trans-national citizen engagement
- Transferring design decisions using End User Development
- UnosUno
- Use of Mobile Content Management Systems in Learning
- User stories to elicit method requirements
- Using Social Media as a Learning Management System in Developing Countries
- Value awareness in web site design
- Value Conflicts and Information Systems Security in Health Care
- Virtual environments supporting group work between sighted and visually impaired pupils
- Wiki Method Tool