{"id":13844,"date":"2024-06-27T09:40:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/?p=13844"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:11:28","slug":"2024-servsig-best-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/2024\/06\/2024-servsig-best-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1719199893680.jpg 1798w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s <strong>SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award <\/strong>winner (and finalists) were announced and congratulated at the SERVSIG 2024 conference in Bordeaux. Join us again in complimenting them! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SERVSIG Board is thankful to&nbsp;<strong>Maastricht University&nbsp;<\/strong>for sponsoring this award. Also thanks go to the independent award committee members who diligently worked on the selection process \u2014 Cristina Mele (Chair), Chia-Chiu Chang, Nima Heirati and Ingo Karpen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1-1024x977.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1-768x733.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/103-Bordeaux-1717945620207-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to the winner:&nbsp;<strong>The Khoa Do (Bin)<\/strong> \u2014 for his dissertation titled &#8220;Helping or Hurting: Using Assertive Language for Virtual Agents in Conversational Commerce Introduction&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>Congratulations also to the finalists:&nbsp;<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Marah Blaurock<\/strong> (&#8220;Artificial intelligence and robots in services \u2013 theory and management of (future) human\u2013robot service interactions&#8221;)<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Tohid Ghanbarpour<\/strong> (&#8220;Doing Good and Doing Well: Creating Value through Corporate Social Responsibility\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three have been invited to tell us more about their research \u2013 stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more and see previous winners of the award&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/awards\/servsig-dissertation-award\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s SERVSIG Best Dissertation Award winner (and finalists) were announced and congratulated at the SERVSIG 2024 conference in Bordeaux. Join us again in complimenting them! The SERVSIG Board is thankful to&nbsp;Maastricht University&nbsp;for sponsoring this award. Also thanks go to the independent award committee members who diligently worked on the selection process \u2014 Cristina Mele [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servsig.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}