HICSS-58 Minitrack Call for Papers

Description

Diffusion (adoption, implementation, and utilization) of collaboration technologies has been investigated in many countries and regions around the globe. While many of the research initiatives have been undertaken in Western Europe and North America, they have been scarce in developing regions like Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The diffusion of collaboration technologies in these regions is on the rise as globalization drives inter and intra-country collaboration intensity within and across organizations. In many developing countries, synchronous and asynchronous computer support for team members (co-located or virtual) is being enhanced by handheld mobile devices in communities of practice and social media environments. Moreover, the use of digital technology enabled tools for collaboration and communication, has become more popular in the age of new technologies. Emerging technology trends like Metaverse, AIGC, provide new opportunities to further enhance IT enabled collaboration for development.

We would like to invite the authors to submit their research from theoretical, technological, social, psychological, behavioral, and design science perspectives. Research deploying different theoretical lenses could focus on process and system design, methods, modeling, and techniques in addressing various aspects of IT enabled collaboration for development.

Topics

The minitrack focuses on a wide range of topics including but not limited to:

• IT enabled collaboration in emerging context (e.g. Metaverse) in developing regions

• Opportunities and challenges in AI generated and participated collaboration

• Metaverse and its influence for digital collaboration

• Digital collaboration technology diffusion case studies in education, business, government, and healthcare organizations in developing regions

• Global, virtual, distributed, blended, and face-to-face IT enabled collaboration for development at the team and organizational level

• New generation of digital technology for cross-cultural collaboration

• Group decision making, negotiation, facilitation, and communication technologies for development

• Trust, privacy, security issues in digital technology enabled collaboration

• Social, behavioral, psychological, economic and technical factors influencing IT enabled collaboration for development

• Information systems, technologies, theories, processes, methods, or models that could be transferred and applied from developed regions to developing region

Co-chairs

Xusen Cheng (Primary Contact)
Renmin University of China
xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn

Xiangbin Yan
University of Science and Technology Beijing
xbyan@ustb.edu.cn

Deepinder Bajwa
Western Washington University
Deepinder.bajwa@wwu.edu

Minitrack: AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK 

Track: Collaboration Systems and Technologies

This minitrack focuses on the impact of AI on the various aspects of the workplace as it exists currently as well as how it may evolve in the future. We seek papers that address the social, technical, behavioral, attitudinal, emotional, or managerial aspects of AI in the workplace. The unit of analysis can be individuals, teams, or organizations. All kinds of research are welcome including but not limited to quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, or design-oriented research.The focus of these papers can range from the impact of AI on work and its related aspects to the design considerations of AI in the workplace. In short, this minitrack seeks to highlight research that may influence the future of work and act as a springboard for new ideas and innovations in AI that will be disruptive to the workplace.

Triparna de Vreede (Primary Contact)
University of South Florida
tdevreede@usf.edu

Xusen Cheng
Renmin University of China
xusen.cheng@ruc.edu.cn

Dominik Siemon
LUT University
Dominik.Siemon@lut.fi