Leona Chandra

Leona is interested in what it means to be human in the digital age.

Her research focuses on how people use information systems for work and leisure and in particular how the technologies should be designed to provide people with support, pleasure, and security. She examines legacy and emerging technologies, such as decision support systems, digital companions, non-fungible tokens, and immersive technologies, as well as innovative ways of appropriating these technologies, such as virtual wine tasting, hybrid experience, and digital offering design.   

Her research has been recognized with several awards:

• AIS Senior Scholar’s best Information Systems publication in 2018
• Paper of the year 2018 award from the European Jounal of Information Systems 
• SIGBIT 2023 best paper on Web3 and tokenization
• Dissertation award from the University of Liechtenstein
• Young economist participant at the the 7th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences 

Her service to the community of Information Systems research includes the following:

• Senior Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems (ABS 4, VHB A)
• Executive member of the AIS Special Interest Group in Pragmatism
• Doctoral Consortium Chair for DESRIST 2024
• Program Chair for DESRIST 2021

Leona is the research lead for the Department of Information Systems. Check out IT IS AGDER, our research speaker series on established and emerging Information Systems topics. 

Selected publications:

Molla, A., Chandra Kruse, L., Karanasios, S., Cheong, C., & Hoang, G. (Forthcoming). Designing Information Systems for Infectious Disease Management under VUCA Situation: Insights from a Design Archaeology Analysis of COVIDSafe. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. (ABS 4*)

Schoormann, T., Möller, F., Chandra Kruse, L., & Otto, B. (2024). BAUSTEIN – A Design Tool for Configuring and Representing Design Research. Information Systems Journal. (ABS 4)

Chandra Kruse, L., Bergener, K., Conboy, K., Lundström, J. E., Maedche, A., Sarker, S., Seeber, I., Stein, A., & Tømte, C. E. (2023). Understanding the Digital Companions of Our Future Generation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52, 465-479. (ABDC A)

Chandra Kruse, L., & Drechsler, K. (2022). Digitalization of Multisensory Collective Activities: The Case of Virtual Wine Tasting. Journal of Information Technology, 37(4), 341-358. (ABS 4)

Chandra Kruse, L., Purao, S., & Seidel, S. (2022). How Designers Use Design Principles: Design Behaviors and Application Modes. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 23(5), 1235-1270. (ABS 4*)

Tastemirova, A., Schneider, J., Chandra Kruse, L., Heinzle, S., & vom Brocke, J. (2022). Microexpressions in Digital Humans: Perceived Affect, Sincerity, and Trustworthiness. Electronic Markets, 32, 1603-1620. (ABDC A)

Gregor, S., Chandra Kruse, L., & Seidel, S. (2020). Research Perspective: The Anatomy of a Design Principle. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21(6), 1622-1652. (ABS 4*)

Seidel, S., Chandra Kruse, L., Székely, N., Gau, M., & Stieger, D. (2018). Design Principles for Sensemaking Support Systems in Environmental Sustainability Transformations. European Journal of Information Systems, 27(2), 221-247. (ABS 4)

Seidel, S., Bharati, P., Fridgen, G., Watson, R. T., Albizri, A., Boudreau, M.-C., Butler, T., Chandra Kruse, L., Guzman, I., Karsten, H., Lee, H., Melville, N., Rush, D., Toland, J., & Watts, S. (2017). The Sustainability Imperative in Information Systems Research. Communications of the AIS, 40(3). (ABDC A)