Symposia (S), Workshops (W), and Tutorials (T) at HICSS-57

We may cancel any SWTs that have low number of enrollment.

SWTs in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This symposium focuses on the practice and applications of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Data Analytics in the context of Cybersecurity. There are multiple critical components in this area, including appropriate applications of machine learning and deep learning based on type of AI, types of data, appropriate data and data acquisition, benchmarking outcomes, and results analysis.

SWT Leaders

Mark Patton (Primary Contact)
University of Arizona
mpatton@email.arizona.edu

Hsinchun Chen
University of Arizona
hsinchun@email.arizona.edu

This symposium intends to shed lights on the impact of AI technologies, especially AI-powered digital humans, and the current status of its implications across disciplines. During the symposium, leading AI technologies experts will also deliver a short presentation and/or a live demo of the state-of-art technologies/applications in the industry.

SWT Leaders:

Lingyao Ivy Yuan (Primary Contact)
Iowa State University
lyuan@iasate.edu

Mike Seymour
University of Sydney
mike.seymour@sydney.edu.au

This symposium aims to cover research issues of social robots and smart toys from technical and non-technical perspectives, such as locomotion and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). A social robot or smart toy consists of a physical hardware component to interacts with humans connected through a network infrastructure supported by Cloud services. The Uncanny Valley theory describes the disturbing effect of imperfect human likenesses that have dominated HRI. Referring to the Uncanny Valley, social robots or smart toys usually constitute a form of anthropomorphism or zoomorphism. For example, social robots typically behave like humans or animals, such as mimicry of human/animal behavior and emotional expression, with speech, gestures, movements, and eye-gaze features. This symposium will discuss related emerging AI technologies and future trends.

SWT Leaders:

Patrick C. K. Hung (Primary Contact)
Ontario Tech University
patrick.hung@ontariotechu.ca

Marcelo Fantinato
University of São Paulo
m.fantinato@usp.br

Farkhund Iqbal
Zayed University
farkhund.iqbal@zu.ac.ae

Sangseok You
Sungkyunkwan University
sangyou@skku.edu

This workshop is designed for IS researchers and practitioners interested in participating in the development of practical and engaging approaches to stakeholder collaboration in designing effective socio-technical approaches to AI-enabled information systems design. The objectives of this workshop are twofold, i.e., 1) to refine the design sprint methodology and design cards that support project managers in the design and development of human-centred and values-conscious AI-enabled information systems applications and to provide them to the public as a free open-source tool; and 2) to write up the workshop proceedings into research framework and a research agenda.

SWT Leaders:

Marigo Raftopoulos (Primary Contact)
Tampere University
marigo.raftopoulos@tuni.fi

Juho Hamari
Tampere University
juho.hamari@tuni.fi

SWTs on Curriculum Design and Development

This workshop provides a forum for discussing research and experiences related to teaching design science research (DSR). We aim to enable researchers and iconic authors to exchange their experience and knowledge. It consists of a panel session as well as discussions to collect best practices and challenges in DSR education.

We welcome participants who have experience in design science research. We especially welcome researchers to bring experiences from DSR courses to discuss, for instance, examples or exercises for the different design phases or learning assessments. Moreover, we welcome design-oriented researchers talking about how they taught themselves design science research.

SWT Leaders:

Jan Marco Leimeister (Primary Contact)
University of St.Gallen
janmarco.leimeister@unisg.ch

Jan vom Brocke
University of Liechtenstein
jan.vom.brocke@uni.li

Tuure Tuunanen
University of Jyväskylä and Uppsala University
tuure@tuunanen.fi

Ernestine Dickhaut
University of St.Gallen
ernestine.dickhaut@unisg.ch

Gregor Kipping
University of Liechtenstein
Gregor.Kipping@uni.li

The Google Cloud Big Data Essentials Workshop is specifically designed for educators who wish to delve into the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), learn about free programs for any higher education institution, and obtain practical experience in creating services through the Google Cloud Console. During the workshop, you will work with various tools that are ideal for big data analytics and suitable for research or classroom use. These include Dataproc (which works with Spark/Hadoop), BigQuery (a big data database with SQL and off-the-shelf ML), Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, and the new GCP LLM capabilities.

This workshop is an excellent option for individuals interested in teaching cloud computing concepts, and no prior cloud computing experience is necessary. Throughout the workshop, you will have access to our lab offerings, allowing you to gain hands-on experience in creating services through the Google Cloud Console. You must bring your laptop to access the workshop content and participate in the hands-on labs.

Upon completing the workshop, you will understand fundamental cloud computing concepts, Google Cloud’s essential services, and some of the most commonly used big data tools.

Agenda:

  • Getting set up with GCP
  • Hands-on labs
    • Cloud Compute and storage
    • BigQuery for data access and pre-processing
    • BigQuery for ML and LLM capabilities
    • Dataproc for distributed computing with Apache Spark
  • Overview of educational resources that Google Cloud offers to educational institutions
  • Conclusion

SWT Leader:

Mohammad Soltanieh-ha
Boston University
msoltani@bu.edu

The objective of this workshop is to provide faculty participants with an opportunity to gain ‘hands-on’ experience with healthcare business analytics experience focusing on curriculum design, healthcare business datasets & problems, as well as course content & mapping. The workshop enables faculty to integrate concepts related to healthcare business analytics directly into curriculum at their university. In addition, this workshop is designed to allow participants to learn about an emerging and sought-after skillset while obtaining an exposure to healthcare business data and healthcare business problems. Workshop activities will provide valuable and practical takeaway ideas and solutions for the participants’ own curriculum development experience. Perspectives from the workshop leaders and industry panel experts will be valuable for faculty as they develop and refine the incorporation of use cases and available data into their curriculum. Discussion and exchange will focus on devising curriculum strategies and building content, incorporating concepts into courses, and navigating the challenges that curriculum integration presents. The workshop includes sharing resources (made available by industry) for faculty and student use.

This workshop is intended for faculty who are considering the development of Healthcare Business Analytics courses and curriculum, as well as familiarization with healthcare business datasets.  Workshop highlights include –

  • Healthcare Business Analytics – What is ‘Healthcare Business Analytics’?
    • Emerging Skillset (Healthcare Business Analytics) Concepts and Use Cases
    • Healthcare Business Analytics –Why it is sought-after?
    • Relevant Use Cases
    • Relevant Data
  • Developing a Healthcare Business Analytics Program          
    • Finding academic partners
    • Finding industry partners
    • Collaboration between colleges (Business and Education & Health Professions)
  • Hands-on Applications for Curricula
    • Creating a Healthcare Business Analytics concept map
    • Visualizing Healthcare data and Storytelling
    • Wrangling Healthcare data
  • Discussion of Available Resources
    • Resources for Curriculum
    • Healthcare Datasets – BlueCross BlueShield and others
    • Information Systems Department Masters Programs, Enterprise Systems, University of Arkansas

Pre-conference material will be made available for attendees on coordinators’ or other websites.

SWT Leaders:

Timothy Paul Cronan (Primary Contact)
University of Arkansas
pcronan@walton.uark.edu

Elizabeth A. Keiffer
University of Arkansas
ekeiffer@walton.uark.edu

Susan E. Bristow
University of Arkansas
sbristow@walton.uark.edu

The fast diffusion of new generative AI-based tools awakened an ancient challenge, forever related to the dilemma of adopting new instruments in education. Is it worth trying to understand how chatbots, LLMs, and GenAI applications can become tools for increasingly creative and skilled education instead of a source of plagiarism and increasing intellectual laziness?

This workshop will address this question by comparing experiences in adopting new educational tools in different disciplines such as business, computer science, and electronic engineering. Successful and critical cases will be discussed to define methodological paths to address this very important challenge.

SWT Leaders:

Antonio Pietrosanto (Primary Contact)
Università degli Studi di Salerno
apietrosanto@unisa.it

Massimo De Santo
University of Salerno
desanto@unisa.it

In this tutorial, attendees will learn the foundations of smart contract development, the basics of Solidity which is considered to be the leading language for smart contract development in the Ethereum ecosystem and will likely become increasingly valuable to information systems and business students in the years to come, and related development tools. Attendees can then use these materials to incorporate different levels of skills into their own curriculum from an introductory single classroom assignment to four or five assignments in a more advanced class. While some background understanding of blockchain technology is useful, it is not required to attend in this tutorial. To participate, please bring your laptop along.

SWT Leaders:

Fred Riggins (Primary Contact)
North Dakota State University
fred.riggins@ndsu.edu

Samuel Fosso Wamba
TBS Education
s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr

The objective of this workshop is to provide faculty participants with a forum to learn and discuss a broad range of technology delivery strategies for both Information Systems and Business Analytics programs. The workshop will review technology offerings from the University of Arkansas Enterprise Systems that is housed in the Information System department of the Walton College of Business. The workshop will launch with a review of the Enterprise System technology offerings and how these have impacted the curriculum for the Walton College Information System department. These technologies include: 1) Teradata, 2) IBM Z15, 3) Microsoft SQL Server, 4) SAP S4HANA, 5) SAS VIYA and many other technologies. Additionally, a review of the large datasets donated by industries will identify how these technologies have interfaced with both the University of Arkansas and other Universities. NOTE: Access to all resources covered in this workshop are free to the universities requesting use of the systems.

In addition, a panel will be available to address the support provided by Enterprise Systems in their usage of these technologies. The panel will include both faculty participants and industry specialists in supporting Enterprise System initiatives for faculty worldwide. The discussion and exchange will focus on implemented curriculum strategies, existing content, and navigating the challenges with respect to implementing technology in the curriculum. The workshop will conclude by providing hands-on access to the Enterprise System platform.

This workshop is intended for faculty who are developing a technology focused  curriculum (or courses). Faculty teaching in the areas of Business Intelligence, Geospatial, Data, Statistics, and Business Analytics can benefit from this workshop. Workshop highlights include –

  • Enterprise Systems Introduction
    • Technologies available: Teradata, SAP HANA, IBM Z15
    • Exercises & Use Cases: SAS VIYA, SAS EG, SAS EM, SAP, Teradata
    • Datasets: Dillards, Sam’s Club, Axciom, BlueCross BlueShield
    • Platforms: Teradata Studio, HANA Studio, SQL Server Studio
  • Integrating Technology into the Classroom
    • Starting a Business Data Program – A Case study from Washburn University in Topeka KS
    • Information Systems Majors and Database users
    • Starting a Masters of Healthcare Analytics at University of Arkansas
  • Panel on Enterprise System Support, Data & Use
    • Pamela Schmidt – Washburn University
    • Yenny Yang – Teradata University
    • Susan Bristow – University of Arkansas
    • Kenneth Grifno – University of Arkansas
  • Hands on use in a virtual delivery method
    • Accessing VMWare and the University of Arkansas Enterprise System offerings
    • Connecting to a large dataset
    • Connecting to Teradata and large Data Sets
  • Discussion — Resources, Challenges, Curricular Issues, and Research Implications

*Preconference material will be made available for attendees on coordinators’ or other websites.

SWT Leaders:

Ronald D. Freeze (Primary Contact)
University of Arkansas
rfreeze@walton.uark.edu

Timothy Paul Cronan
University of Arkansas
pcronan@walton.uark.edu

Kenneth Grifno
University of Arkansas
Kgrifno@walton.uark.edu

Low-code development enables enterprises to rapidly build and deploy software applications without the use of a professional programmer. Instead of writing every single line of code for a given application, users of a low-code or no-code platform can build their project with point-and-click interfaces.

The Symposium will present use cases, gaps in the development and delivery frameworks and how to overcome it via Low Code. Frameworks that are evolving in the industry around Low Code will be discussed. Resources available for instructors to teach Low Code related coursework will be made available. Partnerships to help teach students the nuances of low code will also be initiated at the symposium.

SWT Leader:

Gaurav Shekhar
University of Texas at Dallas
gaurav.shekhar@utdallas.edu

SWTs in Data Analytics and Governance

This tutorial is designed to illustrate the analytical potential of a wide variety of computational text mining approaches by exploring the intellectual contribution of the HICSS conference. Using the HICSS paper corpus as a dataset, researchers from a wide variety of skills and experience levels may take a variety of exploratory (inductive) and confirmatory (deductive) approaches to help us better understand the overall trajectory, breadth, and depth of the HICSS intellectual contribution. They will examine the extent to which we can use regression models to predict the year of the paper or us classification models to predict the Track, Minitrack, or a paper’s acceptance or rejection.

The textathon and the tutorial will be structured into four streams. While there are clear overlaps between these streams, each represents a different set of conceptual and technical approaches to text mining and analytics:

Stream 1 Traditional “Bag-of-Words, Count and Rule-Based Approaches”: is for researchers interested primarily in statistical “bag of words” and count-based approaches to text mining, including exploratory (inductive) keyword and phrase frequency analysis, term-frequency by inverted document frequency (tf*idf), correspondence analysis, and confirmatory (deductive) and rule-based approaches such as the development and application of dictionaries, including sentiment analysis.

Stream 2 Syntactic Parsing and Unsupervised Machine Learning: is for researchers taking an NLP-based syntactic parsing approach to text mining, including Named Entity Recognition (NER); and unsupervised Machine Learning approaches, such as: topic modeling and k-means clustering.

Stream 3 Supervised Machine Learning and Deep Learning: is for researchers using supervised Machine Learning (ML) including: predictive regression and classification models using naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machines (SVM), and random forests; and Deep Learning (DL) approaches including: Dense Neural Networks (DNN), Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) networks, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

Stream 4 Word Embeddings, Large Language Models, and Transformers: is for researchers using word embeddings, large language models, and transformer models and approaches, including Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT), and Text-to-Text Transfer Transformers (T5) models.

Researchers interested in presenting their research during the workshop will register in advance for the textathon at https://tinyurl.com/hicss-57textathon. After registering, each participant will receive access to the private GitHub repository for the textathon, containing the detailed rules, dataset, and other materials. There are two major deadlines for registered textathon participants.

  • The first deadline is 15 June 2023 for those participants interested in submitting the results of their projects as papers for review in the Big Data and Analytics minitrack, which is hosted within the HICSS Decision Analytics and Service Science Track.
  • The second deadline is 31 October 2023 for all participants in the textathon.

All complete project submissions will be reviewed. The top papers in each stream will be presented at the tutorial.

Participants may use any text mining technique or combination of techniques they choose and should not let these “streams” limit their approach. The tutorial exposes participants to multiple techniques and enables them to explore collaboration.

SWT Leaders:

Derrick Cogburn (Primary Contact)
American University
dcogburn@american.edu

Mike Hine
Carleton University
mike.hine@carleton.ca

In this tutorial, participants will learn stateoftheart data and software management practices to support preservation and reproducibility. A more fundamental component of FAIR principles in order to increase the penetration of these data and software management practices will be introduced to familiarize participants with good management practices required to ensure that data, software, and knowledge are properly preserved throughout the life cycle of a project and beyond.

The tutorial will be organized around three mini-sessions, each with a short demo or presentation of tools and the bulk of time devoted to hands-on participatory activities. Tools will be grouped around repositories, i.e., the DMPTool for planning how data and software are managed in the lab and the OpenScience Framework as an example of a collaboration platform facilitating data management and sharing. The tutorial will conclude with a panel of open questions, including suggestions for future areas of emphasis for this tutorial.

SWT Leaders:

Line Pouchard (Primary Contact)
Brookhaven National Laboratory
pouchard@bnl.gov

Natalie Meyers
University of Notre Dame
natalie.meyers@nd.edu

Sandra Gesing
University of Illinois
sgesing@uillinois.edu

Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing services, and advanced data analytics are the terms defining the present time. These technologies enable the digital transformation and innovation that helps address the economic and social challenges emerging today. Less known is the importance of GIS and location analytics for digital innovation. Emphasizing hands-on experience, this tutorial will introduce Web-based tools for GIS, location intelligence, business analytics, and visualization.

The tutorial is structured so that attendees with laptops can follow the presentation and participate “hands-on”, learning how these tools can be leveraged in research and teaching in multiple business fields including retail, marketing, real estate, supply chain management, and decision science. The first part will introduce Web GIS with ESRI‘s ArcGIS Online, an intuitive cloud platform that gives users the ability to build, visualize and analyze models across multiple disciplines. This will be followed by an introduction to ArcGIS Business Analyst. ArcGIS Business Analyst provides location-based intelligence for market planning, site selection, customer segmentation, and risk assessment. It provides tools and data, such as demographic, lifestyle, spending data, health and education data, necessary to enhance prediction and decision-making with map-based analytics for accurate reports and dynamic presentations.

Specific tutorial exercises include the use cases for market analysis (demographics) and site selection.

SWT Leaders:

Namchul Shin (Primary Contact)
Pace University
nshin@pace.edu

Dan Farkas
Pace University
dfarkas@pace.edu

SWTs on Digital Health

Healthcare delivery is rapidly being transformed by advances in technology. Simultaneously, these
advances are fueling innovations in all aspects of healthcare. They are influenced by the rapidly expanding fields of science, biomedical engineering, and medicine, the explosion of an aging and expensive global population with multiple chronic diseases, and the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry’s unprecedented diffusion of affordable smart and mobile software and hardware technologies around the planet. 
The objective of this workshop is to discuss and identify key opportunities and challenges, both in terms of research and education/training, in the context of a transformative next-generation digital health paradigm.

SWT Leaders:

Nilmini Wickramasinghe (Primary Contact)
Swinburne University of Technology and Epworth HealthCare
nilmini.work@gmail.com

Freimut Bodendorf
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
freimut.bodendorf@fau.de

Elizabeth Davidson
University of Hawaii at Manoa
edavidso@hawaii.edu

Vijay Gehlot
Villanova University
vijay.gehlot@villanova.edu

Elliot B. Sloane
Villanova University and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International
ebsloane@gmail.com

[Symposium Agenda]

This full-day symposium will bring together stakeholders working in the area of pandemic preparedness to discuss and provide a better understanding and predictions of where issues like climate change, urbanization, and environmental degradation affect the ecologies of humans and animals and increase disease emergence risk, taking a OneHealth approach. In particular, it will address the application of these novel surveillance, identification, and data science methods on infectious diseases already of importance in the US and across the world, reducing the overall impact of the inevitable future infectious diseases.

Topics that this symposium will address, include but may not be limited to modeling, surveillance, novel data sources, data fusion, decision-making, deep uncertainty, scaling, risk communication, infrastructure and deployment. The symposium will be organized across four themes: 1) novel data sources and data fusion, 2) modeling, 3) decision-making, 4) infrastructure, scaling and deployment. The current challenges in existing pandemic surveillance systems, intelligent ways for multi-scale integration of various surveillance data streams along with novel data sources for developing a one health approach based surveillance system, modeling techniques, building interactive decision-making environments, working towards scaling and deployment of such complex integrated systems will be discussed.

SWT Leaders:

David Ebert (Primary Contact)
University of Oklahoma
ebert@ou.edu

Kelly Gaither
University of Texas at Austin
kelly@tacc.utexas.edu

Aaron Wendelboe
University of Oklahoma
aaron-wendelboe@ouhsc.edu

Invasive biosensors, among the first of which were ingestible biosensors such as digital pills, have a growing importance in the unobtrusive monitoring of human behavior. Invasive biosensors can trigger mobile devices to deliver acceptable real-time interventions to improve health—or they can be annoying pests.

In this symposium, a panel of clinicians and researchers will present their perspectives on how invasive biosensing technologies can be used to drive interventions designed to effect behavioral change. They will share their research or clinical experiences, providing examples of both successful and unsuccessful approaches. Gaps and opportunities in current delivery of behavioral interventions based upon data from ingestible biosensors will be identified and discussed. An outcome of this symposium will be a research report detailing state-of-the-art practices for behavioral intervention and product development that prioritize the needs of patients, clinicians, and health outcomes.

SWT Leaders:

Edward Boyer (Primary Contact)
Ohio State University Medical School and Harvard Medical School
Edward.boyer@osumc.edu

Beth Bock
Brown Medical School
Beth_Bock@Brown.edu

SWTs on IT, Business, and Society

This paper development workshop is intended both for faculty and advanced PhD students. It focuses on how digital technologies impact individual and organizational perceptions of time, space, and trust. We are interested in how advanced technology changes the perceptions, expectations, and experiences of time, space, and trust. As scholars in Information Systems, Communication, Management, and Organization, we want to see ourselves capable of imagining, thinking, developing, and researching a positive future of work and organizing.

The workshop consists of two parts, i.e.,

  1. A panel discussion of practitioners and scholars where ALL PARTICIPANTS will learn from Ann Majchrzak’s keynote on how to craft an effective introduction
  2. Small group discussions where PARTICIPANTS WITH PAPER SYNOPSIS will get feedback from peers and facilitators including Emma Nordbäck, Dominik Siemon, and Ward van Zoonen. It requires in-person presence and working with your text on your laptop.

To participate in the group discussions, please submit a synopsis of your research for  with information on the research question, conceptual or theoretical framework, data & analysis, and the envisioned contribution to kirsimarja.blomqvist@lut.fi by December 15, 2023. The synopsis should be 3-5 pages in length. Applicants will be notified if their applications are accepted by December 20, 2023.

We welcome different ideas related to advanced technology, time and trust in the brighter future of work and organizing. Here are only a few examples:

  • How can advanced digital technologies automate work routines to create time and space for inner and social time?
  • When and how do advanced technologies help in building trust?
  • How does the autonomy and flexibility in hybrid work change employee and employer perception of time and trust?
  • How do their perception of time and trust change when using technology-mediated communication channels with peers, partners, and customers?
  • How do remotely working employees use digital technologies to manage their time and build trust?
  • What practices do employees and organizations use to increase their visibility for social time and community?

SWT Leaders:

Kirsimarja Blomqvist (Primary Contact)
LUT University
kirsimarja.blomqvist@lut.fi

Ann Majchrzak
University of Southern California
majchrza@usc.edu

Triparna de Vreede
University of South Florida
tdevreede@usf.edu

This workshop offers debates into the impact of current and future AI on the Design Process and the needs and gaps within Design & Process Science to effectively evolve AI for humankind.  The idea is to look at the role of human-AI collaborations, and their effects on human versus digital and social views of existing and desired AI focused design processes, which will inherently include non-human involvement. The debates involve Collaborative human-AI decision making, Human-Computer Interaction AI and the related improvements to Design &Process Science. Furthermore, when examining the prevalent role of AI within Design and Process Science, it reveals challenges, when applying AI to critical manufacturing processes and automation complexities.  Therefore, the definition and the real nature of automation (not only in engineering) we believe requires novel ideas, concepts, solutions, and debate. The workshop will offer two focused debates.

The debate on Intelligent Industrial Engineering, focuses on revisiting design processes at the time of AI and encouraging the search for self-sustainable and energy self- harvesting computational materials.  Debating intelligent engineering should include talking about smart materials and manufacturing, treating information as a “material”, and probably defining new industrial engineering: the fusion of computational materials with hardware/software typical of binary/ ternary/quantum computers.

The debate on Industrial Artificial Intelligence focuses on this term coined recently, because we found ourselves under pressure to define AI, specifically tailored for Industrial engineering.  There are challenges, benefits, and software tools for Industrial AI, which may secure a sustainable future.  We can look at Industrial and data driven AI platforms for predictions, data analytics, planning and decision-making and define Industrial AI specificity.  This requires industrial data modelling with a specific role in algorithmic prediction.  AI in the processes of improving failure prediction, maintenance planning, optimizing processes, and detecting human induced errors, has been debated, but there is something more important on the horizon:  Industrial AI has an impact on the future of automation.  Success in our pathway towards Industrial AI and visions of the future of automation, depend on the level of interdisciplinary research in which software engineers and computer scientists might have a more prominent role in enriching the centuries of advances in engineering and science.

The workshop takes real examples from traditional industrial engineering, which has historically been inexplicably intertwined with design and process science, along with its well-known shortcomings.

SWT Leaders:

Sang C. Suh (Primary Contact)
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Sang.Suh@tamuc.edu

Radmila Juric
ALMAIS Consultancy, London ,UK
radjur3@gmail.com

John Carbone
Forcepoint Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure
John.Carbone@forcepointgov.com

Elisabetta Ronchieri
CNAF/INFN and University of Bologna
elisabetta.ronchieri@cnaf.infn.it

Patrick Then
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus
pthen@swinburne.edu.my

Julia (Taylor) Rayz
Purdue University
jtaylor1@purdue.edu

The primary goal of this symposium is to delineate the contours of a broad research agenda on corporate digital responsibility or organizational codes of conduct in the digital era. In doing this, we will identify and discuss not only the conceptual foundations of CDR but also promising theoretical perspectives and concepts from IS, marketing, public policy, business ethics, and other areas that could inform on the underlying theoretical and managerial issues. Going further, we will strive to lay out a research agenda and questions that further the nascent literature on CDR. The symposium will also endeavor to create a framework for tying CDR with corporate strategy.

SWT Leaders:

Satish Nambisan (Primary Contact)
Case Western Reserve University
satish.nambisan@case.edu

Arvind Malhotra
University of North Carolina
malhotra@unc.edu

This workshop aims to establish a global community of scholars who are interested in exploring digitalization phenomena and set up a research agenda that will facilitate global research collaborations to advance theory and practice in managing digitalization and digital transformation.

The workshop will provide an opportunity to exchange knowledge, generate new ideas, foster creative thinking and establish new global research partnerships. Examples of topics to discuss include:

  • How digital technologies are being developed and, more importantly, how they are being deployed
  • What factors explain the variance and causal mechanisms associated with success/ failure of these technologies in application
  • The relationships between technology’s capabilities, technology strategies used, and the business strategies and business models that they enable
  • Impact of digitalization on organization’s economic, environmental and social performance
  • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on digitalization in various industry sectors such as education, healthcare and food sectors.
  • Challenges that organizations face in managing digitalization and the associated digital transformation

SWT Leaders:

Danny Samson (Primary Contact)
University of Melbourne
d.samson@unimelb.edu.au

Sherah Kurnia
University of Melbourne
sherahk@unimelb.edu.au

Niharika Garud
University of Melbourne
niharika.garud@unimelb.edu.au

Guilherme Tortorella
University of Melbourne
guilherme.luztortorella@unimelb.edu.au

This workshop intends to provide a platform for scholars and experts from various disciplines  to communicate the cutting edge technologies and skills in the area of accessibility for human body data and to discuss opportunities and challenges we are facing in this area. The main topics to explore and discuss include different aspects of smart wearable digital health implementation including interoperability, privacy, and regulations.

At the workshop, research agenda will be identified and a framework towards industry-wide standardization and collaborations will be developed. After the workshop, a research advisory committee will be formed. A draft version of the research agenda and the framework for standardization and collaboration will be published on CSUN ARCS’s website to further solicit public comments and reviews.

SWT Leaders:

Xunfei Jiang (Primary Contact)
California State University, Northridge
xunfei.jiang@csun.edu

Nhut Ho
California State University, Northridge
nhut.ho.51@csun.edu

Trung Dung
anphu06@gmail.com

There is increasing recognition of the significant disparities across race, ethnicity and gender among leadership in academic institutions, industry and academic conferences. Diversity in the academic workforce has well-documented, tangible benefits on quality, innovation, morale, and outcomes. Importantly, increased diversity in academic groups stimulates research that is designed and focused in the systems and communities that they seek to impact.

HICSS is a unique conference in its ability to bring together a diverse group of socials scientists, engineers, and clinicians. Planning HICSS with a special focus on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ensures that current and next generation of leaders understand the importance of DEI within the HICSS community, its academic work and scholarship and the HICSS spirit of collaboration.

Unique to HICSS, the academic community is international and may experience heterogenous challenges to DEI within attendee’s respective institutions and countries. Expanding the open and collaborative nature of HICSS by building in pillars that emphasize inclusion of women, under-represented minorities and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds will enable HICSS to strongly support academic work in the system sciences, digital health, and information technology spaces.

This workshop brings together experts to hold an open forum discussion with HICSS attendees to learn and develop a user-centered DEI statement and plan for HICSS. The workshop will start with a panel discussion to describe current DEI efforts at national, international and academic levels. Based on this discussion, the workshop leaders will ask participants to brainstorm and develop through small groups and larger group discussion key DEI tenants for HICSS leadership.

SWT Leaders:

Peter Chai (Primary Contact)
Harvard Medical School
PCHAI@bwh.harvard.edu

Stephanie Carreiro
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Stephanie.Carreiro@umassmemorial.org

Rochelle Rosen
Brown University School of Public Health
rochelle_rosen@brown.edu

This symposium is intended as a discussion opener into the interdisciplinary field of digital art, encompassing information systems science, computer science, art & design, sociology, and business research. The symposium includes presentations, examples, and guided discussion around the conceptual and empirical challenges around studying digital art – and contributing to its development while doing so. A multi-disciplinary view of challenges and opportunities as there are technical, social, societal, commercial issues will be explored. Questions such as whether digital art has perils when it comes to the digitalization of everyday life; to what extent does digital art substitute other art forms; and do people need digital art, and thus screen time, in their everyday lives? will be discussed.

In this symposium, the formation of potential collaborative avenues and institutions for digital art linked to the field of information systems science, and hopefully, the HICSS conference will also be investigated.

SWT Leaders:

Petri Parvinen (Primary Contact)
University of Helsinki and Aalto University
petri.parvinen@helsinki.fi

Jussi Ängeslevä
Universität der Künste
jussi.angesleva@iki.fi

[Agenda]

This symposium focuses on the challenges related to people’s information behaviors in a real information environment. Current state-of-the-art technologies covering a variety of applications and themes that promote proper informational consumption will be discussed. Examples include echo chambers and filtering bubbles.

SWT Leaders:

Isamu Okada (Primary Contact)
Soka University
okada@soka.ac.jp

Fujio Toriumi
University of Tokyo
tori@sys.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

The goal of the workshop is to interactively engage diverse participants to develop a preliminary strategy to apply system sciences to collaboratively addressing the problem of systemic abuses of power in academia and beyond, as well as to outline a corresponding scientific research agenda; the workshop aspires to catalyze a foundation that unleashes a global cavalry of academics and activists alike to address this pressing societal challenge. The workshop will feature Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism), Dr. Sarah Roberts (Author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media), and Mr. Jon Vaughn (Former NFL Player, Tech Entrepreneur, Abuse Survivor, and Activist), all sharing their respective work on studying abuse in socio-technical systems as well as their experiences as academics fighting for their work. This workshop is for anyone interested in abuse in systems or wanting to make a change in the systems, including the organizations, they are a part of.

Examples of topics to discuss include:

  • Big abuses in academia
  • Stories of survivors’ experiences
  • Links to other issues affecting organizational culture in academia and beyond
  • Relationship to other types of abuses of power and to the constellation of other issues such as DEI, sustainability, and public health
  • The decline of innovation and its interconnections with systemic abuses of power
  • Connections to broader abuses and branches of trust at other public and private institutions in society
  • Preview of potential complementary technological and system sciences approaches
  • Next steps for collective action

SWT Leaders:

Joshua C. Rubin (Primary Contact)
University of Michigan Medical School
Josh@JoshCRubin.com

Melissa Ocepek
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
mgocepek@illinois.edu

This symposium will present panel discussions that revolve around the potential consequences of using and working with intelligence augmentation (IA) and artificial intelligence (AI) in human work and how to harness them to benefit our work and lives. It will encompass a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:

  • Intelligence augmentation vs cognitive augmentation
  • Recent developments in Human-in-the-loop (HITL) hybrid-augmented intelligence
  • Recent developments in cognitive computing (CC) based hybrid-augmented intelligence-intuitive reasoning, causal models, and sensing technologies.
  • Psychological and emotional effects of using wearable interactive technologies.
  • Influence of augmented intelligence on the future of work at individual level, team level, and
    organizational level
SWT Leaders:

Souren Paul (Primary Contact)
Northern Kentucky University
Souren.paul@gmail.com

Tung Bui
University of Hawaii at Manoa
tungb@hawaii.edu

Alex Kass
Accenture Labs
alex.kass@accenture.com

This symposium intends to address the most pressing legal and societal issues created by rapid advances in information technology and by the emergence of new giant platform technology companies. It will create a forum where scholars, elected officials, regulators, corporate executives, and other individuals can assemble to discuss how digital transformation can be implemented in a way that minimizes the unanticipated negative impacts and maximizes value creation, balance value sharing, and achieve a joyous society.

SWT Leaders:

Eric K. Clemons (Primary Contact)
University of Pennsylvania
clemons@wharton.upenn.edu

Helmut Krcmar
Technical University of Munich
krcmar@in.tum.de

Tung Bui
University of Hawaii at Manoa
tungb@hawaii.edu

In recent years, regulators, policy makers, legislators, and standard setting bodies have become increasingly aware that digital technologies, particularly those dominated by IT-platform mega firms like Google, Meta, Amazon and others, can also bring harm to citizens or businesses. Effective regulation of digital technologies and innovations is challenging. While regulatory policy setting is often fraught with political, economic and social conflicts, digital technologies pose a number of specific challenges to regulation:

  • The pacing problem – digital technologies tend to develop at a higher speed than regulatory and social structures governing them. Because the formation of laws lags development of innovative technologies, there are technology insertions, often used during emergencies, that may either halt the application of existing regulations for their use or not fall under any existing regulations, thus remaining unregulated.
  • Creating ‘fit’ regulations – the convergence of markets, services, disciplines and physical, digital, and biological worlds, and the confused boundaries between consumers and producers challenge the scope and regulatory categories that are currently in place.
  • Boundary challenges – digital technologies often span multiple regulatory regimes and national or jurisdictional boundaries. Within national boarders (eg across U.S. states) and across national settings (e.g., EU), approaches to regulation vary widely, as do regulatory bodies. This enables organizations to “forum shop” or avoid compliance when it comes to their physical presence.
  • Enforcement challenges – digital innovation triggers us to rethink liability, forcing us to question how we attribute responsibility for damage/harm caused by technology creation/use including legal and ethical issues of product liability, effectiveness of use, replacing an existing workforce, or negligent use.
  • Distinctive digital technology capabilities – Certain capabilities require novel regulatory attention, e.g., the accumulation, processing, and portability of personal data; oversight, accountability and verification of digital content; transparency in the design and use of algorithms; and the scale, scope and network effects of digital businesses.
  • Digital infrastructure and networks – new threats are emerging (e.g., cyber-attacks), which require regulatory attention and action across governmental and private sector actors.

This symposium will build on and extend current conversations about regulation and digital technology in the IS field, including the recent special issue “Regulation in the Age of Digitalization” in the Journal of Information Technology (JIT) (forthcoming 2023). The symposium will be structured as follows:

09.00-09.30:
Opening Keynote by Alberto Gago Fernandes, International and EU Digital Affairs Advisor, Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Digital and AI

09.30-10.15:
Research and Involvement in IT and Regulatory Challenges with panelists including
* Kalle Lyytinen, Professor, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
* Sirkka Jarvenpaa, Professor, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
* Lauri Wessel, Professor, European New School of Digital Studies
* Paula deWitte, Professor of Practice, Texas A&M University as well as Licensed Attorney (Texas) and Registered Patent Attorney (US Patent and Trademark Office)

10.15-10.30:
Break

10.30-11.30:
Workshop on Scholary Action and Research: The Case of the Use of Robots/Drones in Response to the COVID Pandemic led by:
* Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University
* Paula deWitte, Professor of Practice, Texas A&M University as well as Licensed Attorney (Texas) and Registered Patent Attorney (US Patent and Trademark Office)

11.45-12.00:
Report back/integration

SWT Leaders:

Anna Essén (Primary Contact)
Stockholm School of Economics
Anna.essen@hhs.se

Paula S. deWitte
Texas A&M University
paula.dewitte@tamu.edu

Hannes Rothe
University of Duisburg-Essen
hannes.rothe@icb.uni-due.de

Elizabeth Davidson
University of Hawaii at Manoa
edavidso@hawaii.edu

Robin Murphy
Texas A&M University
robin.r.murphy@tamu.edu

SWTs on Scientific Inquiry and Research Methods

This workshop will introduce researchers to the Meta Content Library and demo new data fields and functionalities available in both the User Interface and the API. The Content Library gives researchers comprehensive access to posts, videos, photos, and reels posted to public Pages, Groups, and Events on Facebook as well as robust metadata about these data types (e.g.  view count, reshares, reactions, etc.). For Instagram, the library includes content from  public posts, albums, videos, and photos from creator and business accounts. This hands-on workshop demonstrates how the Meta Content Library can shed light on questions related to online interaction, information propagation, and political discourse through the application of natural language processing, regression, time-series analysis, qualitative analysis, data visualization, and more.

To make the most of the interactive portion of the session, we encourage you to apply for 60-day trial access to the Content Library and Content Library API ahead of the workshop date. Please send an email directly to MetaResearchApplications@meta.com with the subject line “HICSS Meta Content Library Workshop” and include your full name, institution name, and role at your institution. Our support team will respond and guide you through the next onboarding steps.

Please note that 60-day trial access to Content Library is only available to researchers from eligible academic and research institutions. Researchers who are interested in access beyond the workshop and 60-day trial period are welcome to submit an application through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan as well. Applications for 60-day trial access must be received before December 1, 2023 to ensure timely processing before the workshop. 

Here are some helpful resources to review before the workshop.

SWT Leader:

Jessica Bachman
Meta
jbachman@meta.com

The goals of this tutorial are to inform and guide researchers in the most up-to-date practices of netnographic research, which include its adaptation to the study of virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Metaverse. Extended netnography techniques include the use of peripherals and generative AI. This half-day tutorial will introduce netnography and explain its recent evolution in the systems science field with an emphasis on specific hands-on methods for conducting this style of research and examples of its successful completion. The tutorial will develop the current procedures, opportunities, and challenges of netnography within the broader context of cultural approaches to systems science, with a particular focus on customer experience, service experience, and organizational technology contexts. The session will be led by a researcher who has authored five books covering the method as well as its adaptations and applications.

At the end of this hands-on half-day session (bring your own computers and research topics!), participants will be able to:

  • discern and develop appropriate systems science topics and questions for netnographic research;
  • articulate the main movements and procedures that distinguish a netnography project from other approaches;
  • explain how netnography’s stages and procedures can be adapted to studies of immersive technologies, augmented reality, virtual worlds, and the Metaverse;
  • outline the main ethical challenges in netnography and how they can be addressed;
  • describe current approaches that successfully incorporate generative AI and natural language processing procedures into netnographic research.

SWT Leaders:

Robert Kozinets (Primary Contact)
University of Southern California
rkozinets@usc.edu

Ulrike Gretzel
Netnografica LLC
gretzel@usc.edu

This workshop will inform attendees with respect to current eye tracking applications to measure user engagement, attention, and cognitive effort. We will introduce the basics of the human oculomotor system, the role of eye tracking in cognition, eye tracking recording techniques, and data analysis methods. The workshop will be a combination of lectures, discussions, and classroom exercises. Through the workshop, attendees will (1) understand basic physiological and psychological mechanisms underlying eye tracking and associated data collection techniques; (2) be able to use basic data analysis methods, e.g., heat maps, to interpret eye tracking data; (3) be able to design a basic eye tracking study, including formulate study questions. The following bullets are the current outline for activities this workshop plans to carry out:

  • A discussion of the human oculomotor system, especially saccadic eye movements
  • The association between visual attention and eye tracking with respect to gaze and gaze shift
  • A brief overview of the value of eye tracking technology in user experience and behavioral studies
  • A discussion of major eye-tracking metrics that help study human decision-making behavior
  • Identifying research questions that eye tracking measurement data may answer
  • Review of methodologies for eye-tracking study design, including known methods for data triangulation with contextual information from literature
  • Roundtable practice of designing an eye tracking study followed by collective discussion of applicable metrics to address research questions from given scenarios
  • Participants’ practice of interpreting eye tracking data based on a given scenario

SWT Leaders:

Jim Ryan (Primary Contact)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
jryan@wpi.edu

Lin Wang
U.S. Census Bureau
lin.wang@census.gov

Soussan Djamasbi
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
djamasbi@wpi.edu

Bengisu Tulu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
bengisu@wpi.edu

This tutorial will provide an overview of evaluation studies and how they are appropriate in the different phases of the development life cycle in which the research/development is situated. We will review how to think about validation from different viewpoints. For example, the evaluation of individual algorithms can often be optimized in a very efficient setup that requires very little user/expert interaction (which is expensive and time-consuming) and by leveraging data-driven approaches. On the other hand, completed information systems require user studies but these can also be optimized to avoid bias and avoid missing important study design elements.

In addition to this overview, there will be a practical section to discuss the common statistics to be used in different setups and mistakes that can be avoided. Both contribute to designing and executing a better study. This in turn increases the chances of finding interesting results. We will showcase up to 6 different types of evaluations that are common in the evaluation of artifacts (algorithms & systems). Depending on the interest by attendees, we can discuss each in turn or focus on a few particular types of evaluations.

SWT Leaders:

Gondy Leroy (Primary Contact)
University of Arizona
gondyleroy@arizona.edu

Kai Larsen
University of Colorado
kai.larsen@colorado.edu

Rarely, if ever, is it said that one was born a good writer. Good writing is not a matter of heredity. It is a learned skill that requires considerable time, effort, and attention. This JAIS-HICSS workshop will focus on the development and execution of the literature review/ theoretical foundation section of scholarly publications. The workshop will highlight the purpose of the literature review/theoretical foundation section and provide guidance on how to scope this section, synthesize findings, and address common mistakes authors make when writing this section of a paper. The workshop leaders are Dorothy Leidner, Aaron Baird, Suti Chatterjee, Daniel Chen, and Amber Young.

The first half of the workshop includes a panel discussion about developing and writing an effective literature review/ theoretical foundation section. The second half of the workshop includes small group mentoring from the workshop leaders to help authors develop or revise the literature review/ theoretical foundation section of their manuscripts. The small group mentoring part of the workshop is limited to 20 participants and requires a short application and acceptance to attend.

Please submit your application using the following link: https://forms.gle/Yw3HogABDuijbVcB9

Applicants will be accepted to the mentoring session on a first come, first serve basis. However, applicants who have papers that are currently in the revision process for a journal publication will be given priority.

Important dates

Applicant Submission Deadline: December 1, 2023
Acceptance notification: December 15, 2023

SWT Leader:

Dorothy Leidner
University of Virginia
Dorothy@virginia.edu

Aaron Baird
Georgia State University

Suti Chatterjee
University of Nevada Las Vegas

Daniel Chen
Baylor University

Amber Young
University of Arkansas

SWTs on Security and Privacy

This symposium provides a platform to discuss shortfalls in national strategies and public policies in the area of cybersecurity as well as the way moving forward in the best interests of all stakeholders, both from the public and private sectors.

SWT Leaders:

Greta Nasi (Primary Contact)
Bocconi University
greta.nasi@unibocconi.it

Maria Cucciniello
Bocconi University
maria.cucciniello@unibocconi.it

Richard Harknett
University of Cincinnati
richard.harknett@uc.edu

Analyzing deception indicators in mediated and face-to-face interactions is a challenging and daunting task. Accurate detection of deception is essential in a range of contexts, from improving port-of-entry screening and fraud investigations to countering spear-phishing attacks and identifying insider threats. Security personnel face the difficult task of separating the few individuals who may pose a threat from the numerous individuals who pose no threat, all while maintaining consistent and efficient processes.

This full-day symposium offers a stimulating forum among academic researchers; local, state and federal law enforcement; intelligence experts; and information security practitioners who are interested in assessing credibility and detecting deception. New tools, technologies, processes and procedures will be presented and discussed concerning their efficiency, effectiveness, and usefulness for aiding in credibility assessment and deception detection.

SWT Leaders:

Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr. (Primary Contact)
University of Arizona
jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu

Judee K. Burgoon
University of Arizona
judee@email.arizona.edu

Norah E. Dunbar
University of California Santa Barbara
ndunbar@ucsb.edu

This workshop intends to develop a research agenda which seeks to promote interdisciplinary dialogues to address the following research questions:

  • How can we reconceptualize and reimagine global cyberspace governance regimes from a multi-layered and, more importantly, interdisciplinary perspective?
  • How do actors at a variety of levels – ranging from national governments, civil societies, to private sectors, regional and international organizations – develop, establish, and implement norms and governance frameworks around cyberspace governance (e.g. privacy issues, cybersecurity)?
  • How can theoretical and methodological insights from different disciplines such as International Relations, Legal Studies, and Computer Science co-design effective governance regimes for cyberspace across technology and politics?

The workshop comes with three sessions. The first session will consist of an introduction of the research agenda provided by the workshop leaders, and a keynote speech by invited expert(s) in the field of cybersecurity governance. The second session will consist of paper presentations, where participants can present their own ideas and research on the topic. The final session will be a panel discussion, where the participants will jointly identify the key opportunities and challenges associated with research on cybersecurity from a multidisciplinary perspective as well as discuss the future research avenue.

If you are interested in participating as a presenter, please submit an abstract and a short statement that express your interest in cybersecurity governance regimes to the workshop leaders.

SWT Leaders:

Xuechen Chen (Primary Contact)
Northeastern University – London
xuechen.chen@nulondon.ac.uk

Pablo Calderón Martínez
Northeastern University – London
pablo.calderon-martinez@nulondon.ac.uk

Ada Lerner
Northeastern University, Boston.
ada@ccs.neu.edu

Johann Laux
Oxford Internet Institute
johann.laux@oii.ox.ac.uk

This workshop focuses on the measurement and calibration of trust in cyber environments. Specifically, participants will be introduced to the OUSD-sponsored CARMA-AI (Cyber Agreements for Resilient Machine through Augmented AI) human subjects research effort and to the problem of trust calibration, particularly in human-autonomy teaming environments. The use of working agreements (a formal language and methodology for achieving consensus between a human operator and an autonomous system) as a means of improving trust calibration during interactions with AI-guided cyber defenses will be demonstrated.

The first half of the workshop will introduce the history and background of trust and trust calibration research as it relates to autonomous systems, and present preliminary data regarding the utility of working agreements in achieving appropriate levels of trust in cyber scenarios. The second half of the workshop will involve group level brainstorming to identify scenarios common to the overarching communities of practice, crafting suitable working agreements that could be used to achieve human-autonomy trust, and exploring autonomous implementation of both conventional and novel cyber defenses to each scenario.

The output of the workshop will help improve the methodology for advancing the adoption of autonomous defenses of computing systems and platforms. Working agreements generated during the workshop and by its participants will be integrated into phase 2 of the CARMA-AI human subjects research study.

SWT Leaders:

Anu Venkatesh (Primary Contact)
Naval Information Warfare Center
anu.venkatesh.civ@us.navy.mil

Sunny Fugate
Naval Information Warfare Center
fugate@spawar.navy.mil

SWT on Technology for Environmentally Sustainable Development

This symposium provides a forum for brainstorming and problem solving by bringing together world-leading researchers in the areas that span energy efficiency and computing with those interested in investigating solutions to the problems that include (but are not limited to) power-aware algorithm and software design; power-efficient hardware and system design; power-awareness characterization, metrics, and modeling; thermal behavior and control; life cycle analysis of computing infrastructures; pervasive sustainability; and smart grid and energy supply-and-demand matching.

SWT Leaders:

Adolfy Hoisie (Primary Contact)
Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University
ahoisie@bnl.gov

Behrooz Shirazi
Washington State University
shirazi@wsu.edu

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