Tom Roberts

University of Kansas - School of Business

1300 Sunnyside Avenue

Lawrence, KS 66045

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1.

Taking ‘Fun and Games’ Seriously: Proposing the Hedonic-Motivation System Adoption Model (HMSAM)

Journal of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 14(11), 617-671
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2014
Paul Benjamin Lowry, James Gaskin, Nathan Twyman, Bryan Hammer and Tom Roberts
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, University of Arizona - Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arkansas - Department of Information Systems and University of Kansas - School of Business
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Hedonic-motivation system adoption model (HMSAM), technology acceptance model, cognitive absorption, immersion, hedonic-motivation systems, utilitarian-motivation systems, mixed-motivation systems, gaming, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation

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Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes (MIMIC) Models as a Mixed-Modelling Technique: A Tutorial and an Annotated Example

Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 36(11)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2015
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Becky Bennett
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems
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Methodology, Formative Construct Validation, MIMIC Modelling, Covariance-based SEM, Protection-Motivated Behaviors

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When Computer Monitoring Backfires: Invasion of Privacy and Organizational Injustice as Precursors to Computer Abuse

Journal of Information System Security, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 24-47, 2011
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2013
Clay Posey, Becky Bennett, Tom Roberts and Paul Benjamin Lowry
University of Central Florida, Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems, University of Kansas - School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
Downloads 668 (54,926)
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Reactance theory, fairness theory, computer monitoring, computer abuse, privacy invasion, procedural justice, distributive justice, antisocial behavior

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Motivating the Insider to Protect Organizational Information Assets: Evidence from Protection Motivation Theory and Rival Explanations

The Dewald Roode Workshop in Information Systems Security 2011, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, September 22–23, pp. 1–51
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Jun 2013
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry, James Courtney and Becky Bennett
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, Independent and Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems
Downloads 450 (89,907)
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Protection-motivated behaviors, protection motivation theory, threat appraisal, coping appraisal, MIMIC model, job satisfaction, management support, structural equation modeling

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Insiders’ Protection of Organizational Information Assets: Development of a Systematics-Based Taxonomy and Theory of Diversity for Protection-Motivated Behaviors

MIS Quarterly, Vol. 37(4), pp. 1189-1210
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2013
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Becky Bennett and James Courtney
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems and Independent
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Protection-motivated behaviors, behavioral information security, systematics, theory of diversity, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, taxonomy

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The Impact of Group Size and Social Presence on Small-Group Communication: Does Computer-Mediated Communication Make a Difference?

Small Group Research (SGR), Vol. 37, No. 6, pp. 631-661, 2006
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2009
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts, Nicholas C. Romano, Paul Cheney and Ross Hightower
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business, Oklahoma State University-MSIS, University of Central Florida and University of Central Florida
Downloads 278 (152,262)
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Computer-mediated communication (CMC), small-group communication, virtual teams, social presence, social presence theory (SPT), and heuristic evaluation (HE)

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The Impact of Organizational Commitment on Insiders’ Motivation to Protect Organizational Information Assets

Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 32(4), pp. 179–214, 2015
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 09 May 2016
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts and Paul Benjamin Lowry
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
Downloads 236 (178,954)
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Protection-motivated behaviors, protection motivation theory, threat appraisal, coping appraisal, MIMIC model, security, organizational commitment, structural equation modeling

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Improving the Usability Evaluation Technique, Heuristic Evaluation, Through the Use of Collaborative Software

9th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, Tampa, August 4-5, pp. 2203-2211
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Paul Benjamin Lowry and Tom Roberts
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and University of Kansas - School of Business
Downloads 233 (181,172)
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Heuristic evaluation, collaborative software, usability, HCI, distributed work

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Technology-Supported Small Group Interaction: Extending a Tradition of Leading Research for Virtual Teams and Global Organizations

Small Group Research (SGR), Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 3-11, 2007
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2009
Nicholas C. Romano, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Tom Roberts
Oklahoma State University-MSIS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and University of Kansas - School of Business
Downloads 180 (229,206)
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collaboration, small groups, virtual teams

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Improving Group Communication Outcomes with Collaborative Software: The Impact of Group Size, Media Richness, and Social Presence

39th Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Collaboration Systems and Technology Track, Kauai, Hawaii, January 4-7, 2006 (doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.217).
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 23 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2009
Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Paul Cheney and Ross Hightower
University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Central Florida and University of Central Florida
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communication, collaborative software, GSS, media richness, social presence, group size

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An Evaluation of the Impact of Social Presence through Group Size and the Use of Collaborative Software on Group Member 'Voice' in Face-to-Face and Computer-Mediated Task Groups

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (IEEETPC), Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 28-43, 2006
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2009
Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Paul Sweeney
University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and University of Dayton - School of Business Department of Management
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Collaborative software, instrumental voice, value-expressive voice, virtual groups, voice effect, collaboration

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Proposing the Online Community Self-Disclosure Model: The Case of Working Professionals in France and the UK Who Use Online Communities

European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 181-195 (doi:10.1057/ejis.2010.15), 2010
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 08 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Clay Posey, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts and Selwyn Ellis
University of Central Florida, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business and Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems
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Self-disclosure, social influence, trust, privacy, reciprocity, collectivism, individualism, culture

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Proposing the Interactivity-Stimulus-Attention Model (ISAM) to Explain and Predict Enjoyment, Immersion, and Adoption of Purely Hedonic Systems

Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction Pre-ICIS Workshop (best-paper nomination), pp. 72-76, Montréal, December 8, 2007
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 07 Oct 2009
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Nathan Twyman, James Gaskin, Bryan Hammer, Aaron Bailey and Tom Roberts
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Arizona - Department of Management Information Systems, Brigham Young University - Marriott School, University of Arkansas - Department of Information Systems, Hitachi Consulting and University of Kansas - School of Business
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Technology acceptance model (TAM), immersion, enjoyment, interactivity, curiosity, hedonic, utilitarian, gaming, adoption, behavioral intention to use, perceived ease-of-use, control, interactivity-stimulus-attention model (ISAM), flow, attention, stimuli

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The Adaptive Roles of Positive and Negative Emotions in Organizational Insiders’ Engagement in Security-Based Precaution Taking

Information Systems Research (ISR), vol. 30(4), pp. 1228–1247 (2019)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2020
AJ Burns, Tom Roberts, Clay Posey and Paul Benjamin Lowry
Baylor University - Department of Information Systems, University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Central Florida and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
Downloads 100 (358,273)
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Information security (InfoSec); organizational security; emotions; precaution taking; broaden-and-build theory (BBT); positive psychology; psychological distancing; psychological capital (PsyCap)

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Toward Building Self-Sustaining Groups in PCR-Based Tasks Through Implicit Coordination: The Case of Heuristic Evaluation

Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 170-195.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2009
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts, Douglas L. Dean and George M Marakas
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business, Brigham Young University - Information Systems Department and Florida International University (FIU)
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Heuristic evaluation, collaboration engineering, virtual groups, virtual teams, group size, usability evaluation, human-computer interaction, thinkLets, collaboration, collaborative software

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Bridging the Divide: A Qualitative Comparison of Information Security Thought Patterns between Information Security Professionals and Ordinary Organizational Insiders

Information & Management, vol. 51(5), pp. 551–567
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Ross Hightower
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and University of Central Florida
Downloads 89 (385,333)
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behavioral information security; risk assessment; qualitative analysis; organizational insiders; security professionals; protection motivation theory

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First Impressions with Websites: The Effect of the Familiarity and Credibility of Corporate Logos on Perceived Consumer Swift Trust of Websites

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, pp. 77-85, J. Jacko, ed., CRC, 2007, 12th International Conference on HCI, Beijing, Part 4, pp. 77-85, July 22-27, 2007
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Sep 2009
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts and Trevor Higbee
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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trust, mere-exposure effect, familiarity, logos, swift trust, websites

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The 'Voice Effect' in Groups

The Second Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, December 12-13, pp. 42-46
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 14 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tom Roberts and Paul Benjamin Lowry
University of Kansas - School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
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Human Computer Interaction, voice effect, collaboration

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Leveraging Fairness and Reactance Theories to Deter Reactive Computer Abuse Following Enhanced Organisational Information Security Policies: An Empirical Study of the Influence of Counterfactual Reasoning and Organisational Trust

Information Systems Journal, vol. 25(3), pp. 193–230 (doi.org/10.1111/isj.12063)
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 06 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2015
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Clay Posey, Becky Bennett and Tom Roberts
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Central Florida, Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems and University of Kansas - School of Business
Downloads 74 (429,017)
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Fairness theory (FT), reactance theory (RT), deterrence theory (DT), counterfactual reasoning, reactive computer abuse (CA), explanation adequacy (EA), organisational trust, security education, training, and awareness (SETA), deterrence, security, organisation communication

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Improving Design Artifact Reviews with Group Support Systems and an Extension of Heuristic Evaluation Techniques

38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, 2005, January 3-6, pp. 1-10 (doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2005.310).
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2009
Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Nicholas C. Romano
University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and Oklahoma State University-MSIS
Downloads 67 (452,324)

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Heuristic evaluation, HFDF, GSS, collaborative software, distributed groups

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Insiders' Protection of Organizational Information Assets: A Multidimensional Scaling Study of Protection-Motivated Behaviors

Roode Workshop on IS Security Research, Boston, MA, USA, October 8-9, 2010
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 30 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2014
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Becky Bennett and James Courtney
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems and Independent
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Protection-motivated behaviors, behavioral information security, information assurance, multidimensional scaling, cluster analysis, typology formation

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Examining the Relationship of Organizational Insiders' Psychological Capital with Information Security Threat and Coping Appraisals

Computers in Human Behavior (CHB), Vol. 68 (March), pp. 190-209
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2017
AJ Burns, Clay Posey, Tom Roberts and Paul Benjamin Lowry
Baylor University - Department of Information Systems, University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
Downloads 48 (527,455)
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Information Security, Psychological Capital (PsyCap), Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), Positive Psychology, Organizational Insiders

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Is Your Banker Leaking Your Personal Information? The Roles of Ethics and Individual-Level Cultural Characteristics in Predicting Organizational Computer Abuse

Journal of Business Ethics, vol. 121(3), pp. 385–401
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Clay Posey, Tom Roberts and Becky Bennett
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business and Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems
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Culture, computer abuse, deontological evaluations, ethics, formalism, information security, organizational security, teleological evaluations, utilitarianism, collectivism, individualism

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What Signal is Your Inspection Team Sending to Each Other? Using a Shared Collaborative Interface to Improve Shared Cognition and Implicit Coordination in Error-Detection Teams

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 71(4), pp. 455-474 (doi: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2012.11.004)
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2013
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts and Nicholas C. Romano
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business and Oklahoma State University-MSIS
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Implicit Coordination, Implicit Coordination Theory, Shared Cognition, Signal Detection Theory, Collaborative Software, Error Detection, Explicit Coordination

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Going Beyond Deterrence: A Middle-Range Theory of Motives and Controls for Insider Computer Abuse

Information Systems Research (ISR), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Apr 2022
AJ Burns, Tom Roberts, Clay Posey, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Bryan Fuller
Baylor University - Department of Information Systems, University of Kansas - School of Business, University of Central Florida, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and Louisiana Tech University
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Security; organizational security; information security; insider computer abuse (ICA); self-control theory; deterrence theory (DT); instrumental motives; expressive motives

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How Explanation Adequacy of Security Policy Changes Decreases Organizational Computer Abuse

Proceedings of the 9th Annual Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction 2010 Pre-ICIS Workshop at the International Conference on System Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, December 12, paper 14, pp. 1-5
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 30 Jun 2013
Clay Posey, Tom Roberts, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Becky Bennett
University of Central Florida, University of Kansas - School of Business, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business and Louisiana Tech University - Department of Management and Information Systems
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fairness theory, computer abuse, organizational trust, security training and awareness, explanation adequacy

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Familiarity Effects on Trust with Mobile Computing Device Websites

11th International Conference on HCI, Las Vegas, July 22-27, 2005
Posted: 21 Feb 2005 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Tom Roberts and Bryce Caine
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business, University of Kansas - School of Business and Brigham Young University - School of Accountancy

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Familiarity, Web, websites, usability, HCI, logos, interfaces