Sebastian Günther

Room: WE5/02.055

Telephone: +49 951 863 2088

Fax: +49 951 863 5077

Email: sebastian.guenther(at)uni-bamberg.de

Consultation hour: Tuesday, 09:00 - 10:00 (by appointment)

Career

10/2016 - today: Scientific assistant and PhD student at the Energy Efficient Systems Group, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg
10/2014 - 09/2016: Business Information Systems (M.Sc.), Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg – Degree with distinction
10/2011 - 09/2014: Business Information Systems (B.Sc.), Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in cooperation with Volkswagen Vertriebsbetreuungsgesellschaft

Selected Activities

Member of the Conflict Committee of the University of Bamberg
Member of University of Bamberg's Convention of non-professoral academic staff

Research Interests and Methods

• Feedback Interventions • Green IS • Field Experiments • Data Analytics • Internet of Things

Awards

1st Winner of the AIS Covid-19 Learning Action Award (Region 2): The impact of social normative feedback on students' online learning behavior: A replication study during the Covid-19 pandemic
Best Conference Paper Runner-Up Award (International Conference on Information Systems)
Best Track Paper Award: HCI, Design Issues and Design Science Research (International Conference on Information Systems)
Best Paper Nominee Award (D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik)
Best graduate at the Faculty of Business Management & Economics at the University of Würzburg in the summer semester 2016

Publications

Günther, S. A., Veihelmann, T., Staake, T.: Leveraging Social Norms to Encourage Online Learning: Empirical Evidence from a Blended Learning Course. International Conference on Information Systems 2020 (forthcoming)

Günther, S. A., Staake, T., Schöb, S., Tiefenbeck, V. (2020): The behavioral response to a corporate carbon offset program: A field experiment on adverse effects and mitigation strategies. In: Global Environmental Change [link]

Günther, S. A., Stingl, C., Coroamă, V. C., Schöb, S., Staake, T. (2020): Empowering Personalized Feedback on Hot Water Usage: A Field Study with Shower Meters. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing [link]

Hauser, M., Günther, S. A., Flath, C. M., Thiesse, F. (2019): Towards Digital Transformation in Fashion Retailing: A Design-oriented IS Research Study of Automated Checkout Systems. In: Business & Information Systems Engineering [link]

Schöb, S., Günther, S. A., Regensburger, K., Staake, T. (2018): NIWM: Non-intrusive water monitoring to uncover heat energy use in households. In: Computer Science - Research and Development. *Best Paper Nominee Award (D-A-CH+ Energieinformatik 2017)* [link]

Hauser, M., Günther, S. A., Flath, C. M., Thiesse, F. (2017): Designing Pervasive Information Systems: A Fashion Retail Case Study. International Conference on Information Systems 2017, Seoul, South Korea, 10-13 December. *Best Conference Track Paper Award (Track: HCI, Design Issues and Design Science Research) and Best Overall Conference Paper Award Nominee* [link]

Günther, S. A., Kupfer, A., Schöb, S., Tiefenbeck, V., Staake, T. (2017): Einfluss von CO₂-Kompensationsmaßnahmen und Echtzeit-Feedback auf den Energie- und Wasserverbrauch: Eine Feldstudie am Beispiel des Duschverhaltens. Abschlussbericht der Amphiro-DJH-Studie [link]

Hauser, M., Günther, S., Flath, C. M., Thiesse, F. (2017): Leveraging RFID Data Analytics for the Design of an Automated Checkout System. Wirtschaftsinformatik 2017, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 12-15 February [link]

Talks

Monetary Incentives vs. Environmental Appeals for Resource Conservation: A Field Study on Motivational Strategies, Advances with Field Experiments 2020, 23-24.09.2020
Energieeinsparpotentiale durch Verhaltensänderung bei der Warmwassernutzung. Verbraucherzentrale Nordrhein-Westfalen. Fachtagung "Warmwasser", 30.08.2017