Publications

This section presents a selection of publications by BEAM group members, highlighting our research in behavioural energy analytics and modelling.

Journal Articles

Muller, Wieland, Leyer, Michael, Degirmenci, Kenan, Barros, Alistair (2025) Designing EV charging networks from a city perspective: A conceptual analysis. Energy Policy, 198, pp.Article number: 114516. [eprints.qut.edu.au/255284/]
Basilico, Paolo, Biancardi, Alberto, D'Adamo, Idiano, Gastaldi, Massimo, Yigitcanlar, Tan (2025) Renewable energy communities for sustainable cities: Economic insights into subsidies, market dynamics and benefits distribution. Applied Energy, 389, pp.Article number: 125752. [eprints.qut.edu.au/256448/]
Tuczek, Matthias, Degirmenci, Kenan, Song, Yuanyuan, Desouza, Kevin, Breitner, Michael, Watson, Richard (2025) Strategic implications of cognitive computing in IS: addressing AI fragmentation through knowledge similarity transformation. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 34 (2), pp.Article number: 101908. [eprints.qut.edu.au/257660/]
Tilly, Niklas, Yigitcanlar, Tan, Degirmenci, Kenan, Paz, Alexander (2024) How sustainable is electric vehicle adoption? Insights from a PRISMA review. Sustainable Cities and Society, 117, pp.Article number: 105950. [eprints.qut.edu.au/253326/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Desouza, Kevin, Watson, Richard T. (2024) Urban resilience through cognitive computing systems. Journal of Urban Technology, 31 (2), pp.117-124. [eprints.qut.edu.au/247704/]
Shaamala, Abdulrazzaq Hasan Mohammed, Yigitcanlar, Tan, Nili, Alireza, Nyandega, Dan (2024) Algorithmic green infrastructure optimisation: Review of artificial intelligence driven approaches for tackling climate change. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101, pp.Article number: 105182. [eprints.qut.edu.au/245451/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Breitner, Michael H. (2023) Gamification and sensory stimuli in eco-driving research: A field experiment to reduce energy consumption in electric vehicles. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 92, pp.266-282. [eprints.qut.edu.au/236933/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Recker, Jan Christof (2023) Breaking bad habits: A field experiment about how routinized work practices can be made more eco-efficient through IS for sensemaking. Information & Management, 60 (4), pp.Article number: 103778. [eprints.qut.edu.au/238295/]
Sandhu, Muhammad Moid, Khalifa, Sara, Geissdoerfer, Kai, Jurdak, Raja, Portmann, Marius, Kusy, Brano (2023) FusedAR: Energy-positive human activity recognition using kinetic and solar signal fusion. IEEE Sensors Journal, 23 (11), pp.12411-12426. [eprints.qut.edu.au/239342/]
Yigitcanlar, Tan, Degirmenci, Kenan, Butler, Luke, Desouza, Kevin (2022) What are the key factors affecting smart city transformation readiness? Evidence from Australian cities. Cities, 120, pp.Article number: 103434. [eprints.qut.edu.au/212875/]
Sandhu, Muhammad Moid, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja, Portmann, Marius (2021) Task scheduling for energy harvesting-based IoT: A survey and critical analysis. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8 (18), pp.Article number: 9446528 13825-13848. [eprints.qut.edu.au/210554/]
Li, Wenda, Yigitcanlar, Tan, Erol, Isil, Liu, Aaron (2021) Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework. Energy Research and Social Science, 80, pp.Article number: 102211. [eprints.qut.edu.au/211988/]
Lantz, Tiffany Louise, Ioppolo, Giuseppe, Yigitcanlar, Tan, Arbolino, Roberta (2021) Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 40, pp.73-86. [eprints.qut.edu.au/210909/]
Lan, Guohao, Xu, Weitao, Ma, Dong, Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Hu, Wen (2020) EnTrans: Leveraging kinetic energy harvesting signal for transportation mode detection. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21 (7), pp.2816-2827. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246519/]
Xu, Weitao, Lan, Guohao, Lin, Qi, Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Bergmann, Neil, Hu, Wen (2019) KEH-Gait: Using kinetic energy harvesting for gait-based user authentication systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18 (1), pp.139-152. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246518/]
Khalifa, Sara, Lan, Guohao, Hassan, Mahbub, Seneviratne, Aruna, Das, Sajal K. (2018) HARKE: Human activity recognition from kinetic energy harvesting data in wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 17 (6), pp.1353-1368. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246403/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Breitner, Michael (2017) Consumer purchase intentions for electric vehicles: Is green more important than price and range?. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 51, pp.250-260. [eprints.qut.edu.au/102860/]
Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Seneviratne, Aruna, Das, Sajal K. (2015) Energy-harvesting wearables for activity-aware services. IEEE Internet Computing, 19 (5), pp.8-16. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246511/]
Rana, Rajib, Kusy, Brano, Jurdak, Raja, Wall, Josh, Hu, Wen (2013) Feasibility analysis of using humidex as an indoor thermal comfort predictor. Energy and Buildings, 64, pp.17-25. [eprints.qut.edu.au/133539/]

Conference Papers

Wichmann, Johannes, Behn, Oliver, Degirmenci, Kenan, Leyer, Michael, Barros, Alistair (2025) An integrated theoretical model to predict the intention to use energy monitoring applications: Evidence from Germany. In Bui, Tung X. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025, pp.961-970. [eprints.qut.edu.au/254359/]
Schoe, Celine, Tuczek, Matthias, Degirmenci, Kenan, Breitner, Michael (2025) Optimizing a sensor network's granularity to mitigate urban heat island effect at 2032 Brisbane Olympics. In Bui, Tung X. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2025, pp.981-990. [eprints.qut.edu.au/254358/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Barros, Alistair, Corbett, Jacqueline (2024) Adoption paradox of sustainable technologies: The case of renewable energy uptake by households. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2024). [eprints.qut.edu.au/252723/]
Alotaibi, Awatif Khalid B, Barros, Alistair, Degirmenci, Kenan (2023) Co-creating value from electric vehicle digital services: Effect of perceived environmental performance on personal data sharing. Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). [eprints.qut.edu.au/239209/]
Deumer, Milan, Sandhu, Moid, Khalifa, Sara, Kusy, Brano, Geissdoerfer, Kai, Zimmerling, Marco, Jurdak, Raja (2023) A battery-free wearable system for on-device human activity recognition using kinetic energy harvesting. EWSN '23: Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks, pp.163-169. [eprints.qut.edu.au/240182/]
Alotaibi, Awatif Khalid B, Barros, Alistair, Degirmenci, Kenan (2021) Private and public resources information integration in electric vehicle ecosystems. Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2021. [eprints.qut.edu.au/212251/]
Sandhu, Muhammad Moid, Khalifa, Sara, Geissdoerfer, Kai, Jurdak, Raja, Portmann, Marius (2021) SolAR: Energy positive human activity recognition using solar cells. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2021, pp.1-10. [eprints.qut.edu.au/211490/]
Sandhu, Muhammad Moid, Geissdoerfer, Kai, Khalifa, Sara, Jurdak, Raja, Portmann, Marius, Kusy, Brano (2020) Towards energy positive sensing using kinetic energy harvesters. Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2020), 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2020. [eprints.qut.edu.au/208944/]
Shevchuk, Nataliya, Degirmenci, Kenan, Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri (2019) Adoption of gamified persuasive systems to encourage sustainable behaviors: Interplay between perceived persuasiveness and cognitive absorption. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019, pp.1-17. [eprints.qut.edu.au/133141/]
Degirmenci, Kenan (2017) Serious games for eco-effective transformations. In Soh, C, Yoo, Y, Henfridsson, O (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems, pp.1-13. [eprints.qut.edu.au/111816/]
Khalifa, Sara (2017) Energy-efficient human activity recognition for self-powered wearable devices. ACSW '17: Proceedings of the Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246517/]
Lan, Guohao, Xu, Weitao, Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Hu, Wen (2017) VEH-COM: Demodulating vibration energy harvesting for short range communication. Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pp.170-179. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246516/]
Degirmenci, Kenan (2016) Trust-promoting seals in green information systems: The case of smart meters and privacy. In Fisher, J, Fernandez, W (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Australasian Conference On Information Systems (ACIS2016), pp.1-6. [eprints.qut.edu.au/101416/]
Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Seneviratne, Aruna (2016) Feasibility and accuracy of hotword detection using vibration energy harvester. Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM). [eprints.qut.edu.au/246514/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Katolla, Torben, Breitner, Michael (2015) How can mobile applications reduce energy consumption? An experimental investigation of electric vehicles. In Becker, J, Rackers, M, Bergener, K (Eds.), Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), pp.1-17. [eprints.qut.edu.au/105683/]
Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Seneviratne, Aruna (2015) Pervasive self-powered human activity recognition without the accelerometer. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pp.79-86. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246521/]
Khalifa, Sara, Hassan, Mahbub, Seneviratne, Aruna (2015) Step detection from power generation pattern in energy-harvesting wearable devices. In Yang, Laurence T., Chen, Jinjun (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems, pp.604-610. [eprints.qut.edu.au/246513/]

Books

Sandhu, Muhammad Moid, Khalifa, Sara, Portmann, Marius, Jurdak, Raja (2023) Self-powered Internet of Things: How energy harvesters can enable energy-positive sensing, processing, and communication. Green Energy and Technology. [eprints.qut.edu.au/237992/]
Degirmenci, Kenan, Cerbe, Thomas, Pfau, Wolfgang (Eds.) (2022) Electric vehicles in shared fleets: Mobility management, business models, and decision support systems. In Degirmenci, Kenan, Cerbe, Thomas, Pfau, Wolfgang (Eds.). [eprints.qut.edu.au/232386/]

Book Chapters

Kummer, Tyge, Degirmenci, Kenan (2023) From environmental towards sustainability management information systems. In Cooper, Vanessa A., Kranz, Johann J., Mathew, Saji K., Watson, Richard T. (Eds.), Research Handbook on Information Systems and the Environment, Research Handbooks in Information Systems, pp.100-113. [eprints.qut.edu.au/241762/]
Degirmenci, Kenan (2023) The role of serious games in shaping pro-environmental behaviours: Changing attitudes toward renewable energy. In Correia, Anacleto, Simoes-Marques, Mario (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Decision-Making Capabilities Improvement With Serious Games, Advances in Game-Based Learning (AGBL) Book Series, pp.364-381. [eprints.qut.edu.au/241660/]
Podszus, Simona, Degirmenci, Kenan, Breitner, Michael H. (2020) Autonomous driving: Framework development for a successful transition and adoption. In Oppermann, Bernd H., Stender-Vorwachs, Jutta (Eds.), Autonomes Fahren: Technische Grundlagen, Rechtsprobleme, Rechtsfolgen, pp.115-137. [eprints.qut.edu.au/196777/]