Christian Maier
Prof. Dr. Christian Maier is Professor of Information Systems (Health and Society in the Digital Age) at the University of Bamberg. His research focuses on the positive and negative effects of digitalization on individuals and companies. His research results have been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly or Journal of the Association for Information Systems and have been presented in radio and television programs (e.g., ZDF, RTL, 3Sat). He was awarded the Schmalenbach prize (2015), the prestigious Early Career Awards by the AIS (2019) and the ACM SIGMIS (2020), several Best Paper Awards, and the University Award for Good Teaching (2019). In his free time, he enjoys cycling and eating out with family and friends.
Trial-Period Technostress: Theoretical Conceptualization, Empirical Investigation, and Practical Implications
Many people experience technology-related stress, or technostress, on a daily basis. While technostress is now commonplace at work, it is increasingly making its way into people’s private lives. For example, technostress is cited as one reason why about one in nine tablets is returned within the first 30 days.
As this costs the economy several billion per year, the research project aims to study trial-period technostress, that is the stress during the initial use of a newly acquired technology in private life. By means of an experiment, we aim to identify causes of technostress and their influence on user behavior, e.g. the willingness to pay or the return of the purchased technology.