BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:326e7ff42f0f82bff1b185510dd77174 DTSTAMP:20260710T110329Z SUMMARY:Clash of Agents: Coping\, agency conflicts and continued effective use of wearables DESCRIPTION:Contact: miranda.kajtazi@ics.lu.se\n\nNote: This event is prima rily for employees at the Department of Informatics. If you are not part o f this group but would like to join\, please contact Carla Böhme. \;D espite wearable self-tracking devices’ potential to improve their users ’ health\, they do not live up to that potential when users discontinue using them after short periods or use them in ineffective ways. To yield p ositive health effects\, wearables must not only be used but also used eff ectively\, that is\, in a way that helps achieve the goals for using them. While the literature on what can help to ensure effective use is conclusi ve\, little is known about the dynamics that are at play once effective us e is established. \;This study adopts a coping theory perspective to e xamine how negative incidents and the ways users cope with them reinforce or threaten established effective wearable use. The study uses 62 intervie ws with users of wearables to identify patterns spanning negative incident s\, emotional states\, ways of coping\, and their impact on continued effe ctive use. The study’s findings indicate that\, while some ways of copin g\, such as engaging in the requested behaviors\, improved effective use\, others\, such as adapting the system or venting\, had no considerable eff ects\, while still others\, such as cheating\, hampered effective use.&nbs p\;The analysis yielded four generative mechanisms – self-control\, conf irmation\, progress\, and datafication – that give rise to distinct copi ng patterns and affect effective use. Two contextual conditions\, agency s tructure and structural barriers\, explain users’ selection of (mal)adap tive coping patterns under different generative mechanisms. The study’s findings contribute to the literatures that focus on effective use\, copin g\, and wearables and have implications for practice.Paper: \;Rieder\, A. (2025). Between human and system agency: Coping with negative incident s for continued effective use of wearables. \;Information Systems Rese arch\, \;Articles in Advance. \;Preprint (free access)About Annami naAnnamina Reider \;an Assistant Professor of Management Information S ystems at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University\, Canad a. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the University of St.Gallen\, Switzerland. Her research examines how digital technologies – particula rly agentic systems that act with varying degrees of autonomy – shape an d serve society. At the core of her work is a commitment to understanding how people engage with information systems in everyday life and how their design can support humanistic outcomes. She focuses on topics such as agen tic systems\, effective use\, and persuasive design\, in the domains of di gital health\, digital platforms\, and the art world. Her work has appeare d in leading journals including \;Information Systems Research\, \ ;European Journal of Information Systems\, and \;Journal of Informatio n Technology. \;\n\nMore information about the event: https://www.luse m.lu.se/calendar/clash-agents-coping-agency-conflicts-and-continued-effect ive-use-wearables DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260608T080000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260608T093000 LOCATION:- END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR