[AISWorld] Call for Papers: HICSS-58 Minitrack on Human Flourishing in the Digital Age

[Dina Koutsikouri]

Dear Friends,

We cordially invite you to consider submitting to our second-year running HICSS mini-track on Human Flourishing in the Digital Age.

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 58 (HICSS-58): January 7-10, 2025, Big Island, Hawaii

Minitrack: Human Flourishing in the Digital Age (in Organizational Systems and Technology)
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-58/organizational-systems-and-technology/#human-flourishing-in-the-digital-age-minitrack

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2024

Track description

The complexity introduced by digitalization across sectors has cast established ways of thinking, working, and doing into question. While technological development often is described in terms of human progress, the use of digital technology may limit people’s ability to cultivate their virtue and flourish. For example, a growing number of research studies point to the negative consequences of digitalization related to stress, inequality, anxiety, social disconnect, and more. Therefore, this minitrack will provide a forum to explore, present, and discuss a wide range of issues related to human flourishing in digitally enabled environments. Human flourishing refers to the optimal continuing development of human beings’ potential and the desire to live well as a human being. Having a thorough understanding of the conditions that enable human flourishing will promote safety and security in people’s lives. This includes health, economic, community, financial, political, and more, which are all areas that have been digitized or digitalized.

Several questions arise when considering the notion of human flourishing in contemporary organizations and society. What do we need to flourish in life? How does digital technology impact human flourishing? How can human flourishing be promoted through digital means? What is needed to make human flourishing a central concern of an organization’s digital transformation or digital innovation? How do people utilize digital technologies to enable individual and collective flourishing? How does digital technology enhance human flourishing and how does it detract from it?  In sum, it is far from trivial to determine what constitutes human flourishing and how digital technology can contribute to personal and professional growth, which is why this minitrack calls for new insights and perspectives on this research topic.

We welcome papers that aim at advancing our understanding of human flourishing in digital environments at various levels (e.g., individual, group, organizational, societal) and from various perspectives (e.g., culture, design, ethics). We welcome not only empirical research papers but also conceptual, analytical, and theoretical papers that can advance our understanding of human flourishing in the digital age in one or more ways. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Novel approaches to digitally innovating for human flourishing
  *   Management practices that shape or impact processes and outcomes
  *   Consequences of digital technology that affect human flourishing
  *   The socio-technical nature of human flourishing
  *   Usage of digital technology and services to promote human flourishing
  *   Ethics and moral issues, including DEI, in digital technology development and use
  *   The role of wisdom, emotions, and lust in the digital era
  *   Hybrid agency in the digital era
  *   The role of environmental sustainability in human flourishing

Minitrack co-chairs:
Lena Hylving (primary contact) lenaandr at ifi.uio.no<mailto:lenaandr at ifi.uio.no>
Dina Koutsikouri
Tina Blegind Jensen

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