[AISWorld] CfP AMCIS 2013: People and Technology

[Alan Litchfield]

19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS'13) (http://amcis2013.aisnet.org/) Chicago, Illinois, USA August 15-17, 2013.

Mini-track title: People and Technology
Track: IS Philosophy (SIGPhilosophy)

Mini-track Chair:
Alan T Litchfield
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
Auckland University of Technology
http://www.aut.ac.nz/cms/
Ph +649 921 9999 x5217

You are invited to submit a paper to the People and Technology Mini-Track, which is part of the IS Philosophy (SIGPhilosophy) track at AMCIS 2013.

Description:

The making and use of tools is an activity that has defined hominids and humanity since the paleolithic. The residue of tool making activities over time are left behind as artefacts, which we now regard as evidence of social and cultural evolution or change. In the field of Information Systems research, the artefact is taken as a core feature and much that captures the researchers' gaze is focussed on the idealisation, building, and assessing of artefacts and tools. However, Scheler says that while there is no doubt that the human is a practical being, it is in its being, a participant in a continual appearance and that it is this aspect that is core to humanity's existence (Scheler, 1960). Thus, a tension exists between conceptions of the human as maker of artefacts and the human as a social being, from which there exist artefacts that are a by-product of its appearance.

In the last several decades, attempts have been made to comprehend the advance in technology and to understand the relationship that exists between humanity and the tools it has made. Heidegger (1993) says the human cannot master the essence of technology. Technological humanity has created a society in which it has developed disciplines designed to create mastery over itself so that technological humans remain amenable to the demands of technology in society. C. S. Lewis (2002) says that in its quest to gain mastery over nature, humanity forgets what it means to be human and humanity becomes subject to technological domination. More recently, Toffler (1972) warned that humanity’s ability to evolve its social and cultural practices and cope with change wrought by technological change is being outpaced. Despite such dire warnings, humanity embraces ever more tightly the advance of technological innovation and adoption.

In this mini-track, we invite authors to present works that approach topics that affect human-technology relations. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Philosophical issues in the uses and application of technology
• The human/tool relationship
• Politics (eg democratic use of computing)
• Use of devices
• Conceptions of the artefact
• Tool building and use
• Human + technology and culture
• Virtual Environments (VE) (e.g. non-verbal communication, teamwork and training)
• Gaming
• Artificial intelligence and nature inspired computing
• Philosophy of ambient intelligence
• Human as the Creator
• The future of the machine
• Role of Myth and Story
• Machine consciousness
• Abstraction, linguistics, symbolism and projected identity
• The genesis of technology

Important Dates (Refer to http://goo.gl/eoaEd):
Jan 4, 2013      Paper submissions open on Bepress system (new for AMCIS)
Feb 22, 2013    Paper submissions deadline 11:59 p.m. Central Time
April 17-19, 2013   Notification of paper acceptance
May 9, 2013         Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due

Template and submission:
The template and links to the BePress submission can be found at http://goo.gl/oNIWo .
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