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When information systems address environmental sustainability challenges: The role of immersive technologies

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, smart city movements bring together infrastructure and technology to improve citizens’ quality of life, easing their interactions with the urban environment. However, although seen as a part of their missions, current smart city practices partly fail to achieve environmental sustainability. In this context, the Information Systems (IS) community is expected to demonstrate the applicability of technological and empirical solutions for triggering pro- environmental behaviors and improving environmental policies. One of the important roles of technology is to simplify and demonstrate the complex, often temporally and spatially distant environmental information, to increase their relevance and seriousness. Recent attention has been brought to immersive technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR): by providing realistic virtual simulations of environmental threats, these tools could serve as Green IS for raising individuals’ environmental engagement. We conducted a systematic literature survey covering Green IS and immersive technologies in the IS literature. Our results indicate that the field is still young, as there is a lack of AR/VR research for environmental sustainability in the leading IS journals. This paper aims to pave the way for IS community towards increased recognition of the potential use of AR/VR for improving environmental policies in smart cities. We provide theoretical arguments, built on the insights from behavioral literature, for the use of immersive technologies for environmental policy evaluation and implementation. (PDF) When information systems address environmental sustainability challenges: The role of immersive technologies. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354920573 _W hen_information_systems_address_environmental_sust ai nability_challenges_The_role_of_immersive_technolo gi es [accessed Sep 29 2021].

Green IS, pro-environmental behavior, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), smart city policy

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