Carolanne Mahony

University College Cork | UCC · Department of Business Information Systems

This paper proposes that to create superior information resources that meet the information needs of the target audience, a greater understanding of information processing is required. We suggest that the subjective assessment criteria that information-seekers use to process information resources and the information they contain can be used to prod...

In recent years, there has been an increase in the variety and availability of information resources in nearly every area of life. Unfortunately, variety and availability don’t always signal quality. With health information, it’s important not only to have quality information resources but also to ensure resources meet the needs of their audience....

General Practitioners (GPs) and healthcare systems, worldwide, are overwhelmed by the growing number of patients with multimorbidity, particularly in light of the additional complexity and costs involved in treating these patients. While it has been proven that clinical decision support systems (CDSS) play a key role in supporting healthcare decisi...

There has been a substantial increase in Multimorbidity, worldwide. Extensive empirical research has found that General Practitioners (GPs) often feel overwhelmed when dealing with such patients [1]. While clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are effective at reducing clinical decision errors and improving healthcare processes across diverse se...

General Practitioners (GPs) and e-health systems are overwhelmed by the growing number of patients with multiple chronic diseases (i.e. multimorbid) and the additional complexity involved in their associated treatments. In such circumstances, GPs require the assistance of Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) which can help them to make more inf...

Social media platforms are a pervasive technology that continue to define our modern world. While social media has no doubt brought many benefits to society in terms of connection and content sharing, numerous concerns remain for the governance of social media platforms going forward; including (but not limited to) the spread of misinformation, hat...

Advancements in data storage and computation have brought new opportunities for corporations to better understand consumer behaviour online. Principal among this is the widespread adoption of ‘surveillance capitalism’ practices, where data analytics are utilised to profile users and promote desired outcomes for commercial gain. Nevertheless, the et...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to identify design guidelines for online resources based on the subjective assessment criteria used by individuals to assess and process information resources. This method of creating design guidelines targeted at precise user groups has the potential to aid designers and developers to create more user-centred...

Expectant mothers use various information resources when making health decisions. Resources include health professionals, eHealth resources, printed materials, family and friends. Pregnancy and parenting are times of constant change, driving information needs and are considered a context-rich area in which to study information behaviour. This explo...

This study presents a literature review of the Information Systems (IS) security field. The purpose of this review is to identify IS 'security themes'. Articulating IS 'security themes' can assist in making effective decisions and reducing risks faced by organisations. This review analyses 87 journal articles from the AIS Senior Scholars' Basket of...

The internet is a disruptive technology that continues to define our modern world. However, numerous ethical challenges remain for internet governance going forward, e.g. surveillance capitalism, terrorism and radicalisation. The ‘pragmatic’ school of thought in open science advocates for collaboration between diverse stakeholder groups (e.g. citiz...

The internet is a disruptive technology that continues to define our modern world. However, numerous ethical challenges remain for internet governance going forward, e.g. surveillance capitalism, terrorism and radicalisation. The ‘pragmatic’ school of thought in open science advocates for collaboration between diverse stakeholder groups (e.g. citiz...

Hear our voice! The digitalization of life has transformed what we believe, how we think, feel and act. Much of this digitalization of life has been brought to citizens by large companies focused on connecting us via internet platforms. But, what do citizens need or wish for from the internet? Questions have been raised around the privacy, securit...

Workers’ technostress is inevitable with the current omnipresent digital technologies in organisations. While there are numerous empirical studies of work-related technostress, we need a holistic conceptual model that summarises those studies’ findings. Thus, this study aims to build a conceptual model to explain workers' technostress. We gather wo...

The presentation that was delivered as part of the Information Science Trends: Health Information Behaviour Conference.

The focus of this research is on the outcomes of information seeking; how individuals use the information that they find and the effect of this use (Kari, 2010). As such, this study adopts the term, information use outcome to describe the result of information seeking. This exploratory research aims to provide more insight into this process by exam...

The internet is a popular choice for health information-seeking (Rowley, Johnson, & Sbaffi, 2017). While some researchers have raised concerns over the quality of information online and the lack of quality standards (Ghasemaghaei & Hassanein, 2015; Metzger, 2007; Savolainen, 2011), health information-seeking is generally viewed as a positive activi...

Stress and uncertainty have been shown to increase people’s health information-seeking (Lee & Hawkins, 2016). Health information-seeking is generally viewed as a positive as it is a coping strategy employed by patients (Lambert & Loiselle, 2007). However, The WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has highlighted the risk of false and misl...

There is pressure on Business Schools to offer value to multiple stakeholders, including students, employers and society. To this end, Business Schools need to undertake and combine three key activities: 1) research, 2) teaching theory, and 3) experiential learning (Hubbard 2019). Creating links between academia and industry is one method to facili...

A panel abstract discussing the challenges of encouraging technological innovation while teaching ethics. The abstract proposes that science fiction might be a method to challenge students to think critically, widen their perspectives, while also providing greater context for the potential implications for their actions.

In business, education, and society, innovations in areas such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and the Internet of Things (IoT), continually create both new opportunities and new challenges. This panel is an opportunity to address three key questions: How do we ensure that tomorrow’s technology leaders have both the i...

There is pressure on Business Schools to offer value to multiple stakeholders, including students, employers and society. To this end, Business Schools need to undertake and combine three key activities: 1) research, 2) teaching theory, and 3) experiential learning (Hubbard, 2019). Creating links between academia and industry is one method to facil...

The rise in online information-seeking raises important questions for information systems researchers, such as how can we tailor information resources to meet the needs of diverse user groups? The study of information behaviour may be able to provide the answers. Information behaviour is the study of human interaction with information resources, th...

Information behaviour is the study of an individual’s information needs, how they search, use and process information in order to satisfy those needs, and the factors which influence the process. This study uses a modified version of Wilson’s 1997 general information behaviour model to attempt to understand the information behaviour of expectant an...

Describing a proposed longitudinal study into the information behaviour of Postmodern Women from Antenatal to Postnatal in Ireland. Explains the rational and context behind the study.