[AISWorld] [CFP] 5th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS'19) in conjunction with ECIS 2019

[Alexander Nolte]

Dear colleagues,

Please consider visiting Stockholm, Sweden in June 2019 and participating in the

5th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development (STPIS'19)
planned for 10th or 11th of June 2019

Submission is opened for the first call with the submission deadline of 15 March 2019

The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in organizational systems development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a meeting place for the community of researchers and practitioners interested in the socio-technical approach.

Following the purpose, only part of the workshop is devoted to presentations, the rest is designated for collaborative work. This year we follow the practice established during STPIS'17 and will be working on a real case from the local industry.

Attached to ECIS'19 conference http://ecis2019.eu/

Full description see at https://stpis2019.blogs.dsv.su.se/

Short description is presented below
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Despite that a socio-technical perspective has been around for over a half century, it is often forgotten in the Information Systems (IS) discourse today. Consequently, many “new approaches” appear to reflect on IS systems problems, such as modern IT systems poorly adjusted to the external or/and internal environment (e.g. market, organizational culture) of organizations in which they are (to be) deployed. We strongly believe that it is high time the social-technical perspective took its proper place in IS research, practice and teaching.

The main purpose of the workshop is to arrange discussions on using a socio-technical perspective in IS development, the long term goal being to make this workshop a meeting place for the community of IS researchers and practitioners interested in the socio-technical approach.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  * Case studies using socio-technical approach
  * Information system design using socio-technical approach
  * Socio-technical comparative studies of technology/IS adoption
  * Socio-technical analysis, design, development and integration of
   – health care systems
   – crisis management systems
   – information security management systems
   – learning systems
   – privacy enhanced technology
  * Societal Security from a socio-technical perspective
  * Ethnographic and Anthropological aspects of IS design and adoption
  * IT business alignment from a socio-technical perspective
  * Using Viable System Model (VSM) for analysis and design of socio-technical systems

We invite submissions of short and long papers and multi-media materials in the following categories:

  * Position papers 
  * Idea papers 
  * Experience reports 
  * Research papers
  * Multi-media. Besides papers, we accept submissions in form of multi-media materials, for example, recorded video or animated presentation, describing industrial experience of using socio-technical perspective for IS analysis or development. In case of acceptance, an extended abstract is published in the workshop proceedings, while the multi-media material itself or a link to it is placed on the workshop site.
 * Posters

Deadlines for the first call
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Submission of papers - 15 March 2019 

Proceedings
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As with the previous editions of  STPIS, we are planning to produce proceedings on-line via CEUR services. CEUR proceedings are indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, Scopus, CiteSeer/CiteSeerX, etc. For Scandinavian researchers, the publisher is in the Norska systemet rated as level 1 (which is the highest level for the conferences and workshops). Proceedings for the previous editions of STPIS can be found here: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1604/,  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1374/,  http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1854/ and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2107/

Organizing committee
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Stewart Kowalski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway,  - general chair
Peter Bednar, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK - program chair

Alexander Nolte, University of Tartu, Estonia – publicity chair

Ilia Bider – DSV, Stockholm University/Ibissoft, Stockholm, Sweden - local chair
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Best regards

Alexander Nolte
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
www.anolte.com