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A timeline of my peer-reviewed publications and patent filings, newest first. The patents are from my time at Microsoft, where I contributed to multiple filings across enterprise knowledge management, user-interface innovation, data visualization, and mobile technology. Work before 2025 was published under the name Kristian Tørning.

For research interests and current projects, see the Research page. The complete record is also available on Google Scholar and ORCID 0009-0009-9965-4269, and every entry below is in one BibTeX file.

2026 #

  • Synthetic Empathy in Career Guidance Chatbots: A Knowledge Behavior Gap Model Study. Forthcoming in Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems: 22nd International Conference, MobiWIS 2026, LNCS volume 16692, Springer, Granada, Spain. With Thong H. N. Dinh and Agnis Stibe. Springer proceedings · Accepted manuscript · Notes
  • The Empathy Illusion: Anthropomorphism and Influence in AI-Driven Persuasion. 19th IADIS International Conference Information Systems 2026, Zagreb, Croatia. PDF · Notes

2025 #

  • SMEDT: AI-First Discovery of a Digital Transformation Framework for Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises. International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWIS 2025), Istanbul, Turkey. Published online in 2025; proceedings volume dated 2026. With Agnis Stibe. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02060-4_3 · PDF · Notes

2015 #

  • Current Challenges in Social Media Management. Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Media & Society. With Zeshan Jaffari and Ravi Vatrapu. DOI: 10.1145/2789187.2789191

2014 #

2013 #

  • A Review of Four Persuasive Design Models. International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA). DOI: 10.4018/ijcssa.2013070103
  • Persuasive Design of TEL — Models and Challenges. International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching. Leeds Beckett Repository

2010 #

  • Knowledge Management Systems in Practice: A Work Place Study. PhD dissertation, Copenhagen Business School (CBS). CBS Research Portal

2009 #

  • Persuasive System Design: State of the Art and Future Directions. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology. With Harri Oinas-Kukkonen. DOI: 10.1145/1541948.1541989

2008 #

  • Persuasive Technology Design — A Rhetorical Approach. Persuasive Technology: 3rd International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2008, Oulu, Finland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68504-3_8
  • Adapting Web 2.0 to Corporate Reality. Position paper for the workshop What to Expect from Enterprise 3.0: Adapting Web 2.0 to Corporate Reality, held at the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008), San Diego, California. Workshop record
  • The Rhetorical Situation for Knowledge Sharing of Best Practices in Corporate Online Environments. International Conference on Organizational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC). PDF

2007 #

  • CSCW and the Web 2.0. Workshop of the 10th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW).
  • Natural Interaction by Flower-Like Navigation. Original priority date: March 21, 2007; published September 25, 2008 as WO 2008/115842. With Erik Roser Dibbern, Bjarne Schon and Hans Gufler.
  • Displaying Data Sensitive Targets. Original priority date: March 5, 2007; published September 12, 2008 as WO 2008/109275. With Thomas Rath.
  • Object Detection Framework for Set of Related Objects. Original priority date: January 22, 2007; published July 24, 2008; granted October 19, 2010 as US Patent 7,817,038.

2006 #

  • Enterprise Resource Tracking of Knowledge. Original priority date: December 19, 2006; published June 19, 2008; granted September 5, 2017 as US Patent 9,754,273. With Alex Renz and Bjarne Schøn.
  • Mobile Data and Handwriting Screen Capture and Forwarding. Original priority date: November 21, 2006; published May 29, 2008 as WO 2008/063739. With Amdi Arnfred Nielsen, Rolf Olsen, Mette Grimm Munck and Christian Bogh Jensen.
  • Direct Customer ERP Access. Original priority date: March 30, 2006; published October 4, 2007; granted July 6, 2010 as US Patent 7,748,622. With Bjarne Schon, Erik Dibbern Röser, Hans Gufler, Pontus Holm and Thomas Rath.

2004 #

  • Gaze Typing Compared with Input by Head and Hand. Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA). With John Paulin Hansen, Anders Sewerin Johansen, Kenji Itoh and Hirotaka Aoki. DOI: 10.1145/968363.968389