My notes from the intersection of research, teaching, and practice. I write about how organizations and people meet technology. Two threads keep coming back.
One is digital and AI transformation in small and medium-sized enterprises, where most of the published advice doesn’t survive contact with the resource constraints that define the segment.
The other is persuasive technology in generative AI: the asymmetric way these systems learn to push us, and what an honest answer to that looks like.
Most of my posts are conference notes, classroom-tested arguments, or projects I’ve shipped.
A randomized experiment with 126 users tested whether an empathic chatbot changes how users move from understanding to action. The structure of the path changed, not just the tone.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
After two decades of quietly standing on the shoulders of the open-source community, I finally shipped something back. It's called Worth Building: an AI-native framework for deciding whether a business idea is actually worth your next three months.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
Notes from my paper at the International Conference on Information Systems 2026 in Zagreb on AI and synthetic empathy: when AI simulates emotions to persuade users.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator
Presenting the open-source SMEDT framework at MobiWIS 2025 in Istanbul: a capability-driven, AI-first approach to help SMEs succeed at digital transformation.
Kristian Stoffregen
PhD | Researcher & AI Educator