Nastaran Mohammadhossein

Nastaran's research is on the value of using augmented reality in organisational settings

A headshot portrait of PhD student Nastaran Mohammadhossein.
Nastaran Mohammadhossein, PhD student

Email: nastaran.mohammadhossein@vuw.ac.nz

Supervisors: Professor Alexander Richter and Dr Stephan Lukosch

Profile

Nastaran is a PhD student with a strong research interest in the technology and business sector. Since graduating from UTM university (University Technology Malaysia) in 2013, she has been working as a digital marketing manager in a well-known advertising company in Iran. In addition, she has worked as a business consultant on various marketing and business projects. Nastaran began her PhD in Information Systems in the School of Information Management in 2021 as a recipient of the Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. She is researching the value of using augmented reality in organisational settings. Her firm belief is that the application of innovation, creativity, and passion is necessary for anything that people want success in, and she believes that this is what ensures that academic work has a significant contribution to the community and real-world problems.

Abstract

Over the last years, the technological advancement of Augmented Reality (AR) has made great progress and AR is increasingly used in various settings. Yet, AR is still often considered experimental - partly due to the missing awareness of use cases and the benefits of using AR. Although the AR systems have become more mature over the years, researchers suggest that the value gained from them has become progressively difficult to isolate, difficult to measure, and challenging to realise. It was therefore in the interest of the authors to investigate the domain of value realisation in AR systems. Management, evaluation of benefits and values from AR systems is a recurrent and growing concern in competitive companies, although it is still a poorly explored subject. Despite their benefits, AR systems have not been fully embraced by organisations, and those that have implemented the ARs are not able to justify the benefits of the investment. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to establish the value realisations for organisations after the implementation of AR. This study addresses the problem at two levels. First, it presents and explores various benefits addressed in previous literature. It systematically reviews research on the impacts of using Augmented Reality in different settings. Second, the study explores how the concept of AR value is viewed among AR experts.

Qualifications and research interests

Nastaran’s research interests include Customer Relationship Management (CRM), ERP, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality adoption in organisational settings and use in organisations, information technology business alignments, information systems and the future of work.

Selected publications