EVENTS

Prof. Dr. Alan Dennis from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, USA, will give a talk titled “Celebrity as a Service. An experiment examining the effects of using a highly human realistic AI agent that looks and sounds like a celebrity versus an unknown human for Public Service Announcements”.

Prof. Dr. Alan Dennis is a Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and holds the John T. Chambers Chair of Internet Systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2012 and received the LEO award in 2021. His research focuses on three main themes: artificial intelligence, team collaboration, and fake news on social media. Professor Dennis has written more than 150 research papers, and has won numerous awards for his theoretical and applied research. He is ranked the second most published Information Systems researcher since we began keeping records in 1990, and a 2021 analysis of citation data placed him in the top 1% of the most influential researchers in the world, across all scientific disciplines. His research has been reported in the popular press almost 1000 times, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CBS, Fox Business Network, as well as Canada’s CBC and CTV, and UK’s Daily Mail and the Telegraph. He is a past President of the Association for Information Systems, and also served as Vice President for Conferences.

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