Edgar A. Durón Ramos 艾德加
PhD Candidate
Email: edgar.duron@iss.nthu.edu.tw
Media: LinkedIn
Ph.D. in Service Science (in progress)
Institute of Service Science
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
M.S. in Business Administration
International MBA Program
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
B.A. in Information Technology Engineering
Universidad José Cecilio del Valle, Honduras
Domains: User Behavior, Technology Use and Diffusion, Online Behavior, Educational IT Tools
Methods: Online Experiments, Econometric Modeling
Contexts: Technological Platforms, mHealth Apps, Education, Human-AI Interactions
Duron, Edgar Alexander; Ray, Soumya; and Hsia, Po Jen, "What’s the Harm in Waiting? Examining disfluency from system response time in decision tasks with conversational agents" (2023). AMCIS 2023 Proceedings. 41.
Submitted: Lin, H.-J., Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ho, C.-J., and Ray, S. (2026) Engaging the Crowd: Class and Community Engagement in Large Technology-Supported Learning (2026). International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2026), Education Track.
Submitted: Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Yu, C.H., and Ray, S. (2026) Designing to Deter Misreporting in mHealth. In the Proceedings of Health Information Technology Symposium Workshop (HITS 2026) at ICIS, Lisbon, Portugal.
Upcoming: Ho, C.-J., Duron-Ramos E.-A., Chung, Y.-J., Ray, S., and Cano-Bejar, A.-H. (2026) Untangling Persuasive AI: How Perceived Power and Social Presence of AI Shape Decision-Making in the Workplace. In the Proceedings of the Taiwan Summer Workshop on Information Management (TSWIM 2026), Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
Upcoming: Lin, B.-Y, Ray, S., Duron-Ramos, E.-A. Reducing Misreporting of Health Information through Novel Positive Appeals. In the Proceedings of the Taiwan Summer Workshop on Information Management (TSWIM 2026), Hsinchu City, Taiwan.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Yu, C.H., and Ray, S. (2025) Designing Against Dishonesty: Deterring mHealth Misreporting Using Fear Appeals and Response Activation Tools. In the Proceedings of the Diffusion Interest Group in Information Technology Workshop (DIGIT 2025) at ICIS, Nashville, U.S.A. (Best Paper Award)
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ray, S., Yoo, J. (2025) Beyond the Stars: Regulatory Fit and Exploratory Behavior in App Stores. In the National Taiwan University Joint Workshop on Information Systems, Taipei City, Taiwan.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ray, S., Yoo, J. (2024) Exploring the Stars: Regulatory Fit from App Store Exploration. In the Proceedings of the Diffusion Interest Group in Information Technology Workshop (DIGIT 2024) at ICIS, Bangkok, Thailand.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ray, S., and Yoo, J. (2024) Navigating Through the Stars: Increasing Purchase Likelihood of Mixed Ratings Apps by Inducing Prevention Focus to Leverage User Exploration. In the ISR Authoring Development Workshop 2024 at PACIS, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ray, S., and Yoo, J. (2024) Steering App Store Challenges: Inducing Regulatory Focus to Influence User Purchase Decisions" with S. Ray. and J. Yoo. In the Proceedings of the Taiwan Summer Workshop on Information Management (TSWIM 2024), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Yu, H.-C, & Ray, S. (2023) "Designing mhealth apps with response activation model and fear appeal to reduce misreporting health information: An experiment on diet behavior self-report." In the Proceedings of The International Conference on Electronic Business ICEB, Chiayi, Taiwan.
Duron, Edgar Alexander; Ray, Soumya; and Hsia, Po Jen, (2023) "What’s the Harm in Waiting? Examining disfluency from system response time in decision tasks with conversational agents." Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2023). Proceedings. 41.
Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Ray, S., Yoo, J., “Exploring the Stars: Regulatory Fit from App Store Exploration”
Submission target: Information Systems Research (ISR) in 2026.
Work-in-progress: Duron-Ramos, E.-A., Yu, H.C., Ray, S., “Designing mhealth apps with response activation model and fear appeal to reduce misreporting health information”
Submission target: TBD
Work-in-progress: Lin, B.-Y, Ray, S., Duron-Ramos, E.-A. “Reducing Misreporting of Health Information through Novel Positive Appeals”
Work-in-progress: Ho, C.-J., Duron-Ramos E.-A., Chung, Y.-J., Ray, S., and Cano-Bejar, A.-H. Work-in-progress “AI Systems and Persuasive Decision-Making”
Work-in-progress: Chen, Y.-C, Duron-Ramos E.-A., Ray, S., Y.-C, Ou. “Pay for no Use: Customer Behavior in Low Subscription Usage”
Teacher Assistant:
Computational Statistics Data Science
Graduate Level | Fall 2025–2026
Institute of Service Science, NTHU
Introduction to Business Analytics
FutureLearn Online Course | Summer 2026
Business Analytics Using Computational Statistics
Graduate Level | Fall 2022–2024
Institute of Service Science, NTHU
Service Security
Graduate Level | Fall 2021
Institute of Service Science, NTHU
International Conference on Information Systems
2026 | Lisbon, Portugal
2025 | Nashville, U.S.A.
2024 | Bangkok, Thailand
Americas Conference on Information Systems
2026 | Reno, U.S.A.
2023 | Panama City, Panama
European Conference on Information Systems
2026 | Milan, Italy
2024 | Paphos, Cyprus
Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
2026 | Jakarta, Indonesia
Taiwan Summer Workshop on Information Management
2026 | Hsinchu City, Taiwan
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
2024 | Hawaii, U.S.A.
DIGIT Best Paper Award
2025 | ICIS 2025, Nashville, U.S.A.
CTM Overseas Academic Engagement Scholarship
2024 | National Tsing Hua University
NTHU International Student Scholarship
2021–2024 | National Tsing Hua University
NTHU International Student Scholarship
2017–2019 | National Tsing Hua University
Taiwan in My Eyes 120h CTCI Finalist Award
2018 | CTCI & National Tsing Hua University