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Call for Participation: WAIM Summer Conference 2022

The announces a working conference to be held 6-7 June 2022 in Washington DC. Travel grants are available for selected participants (see below). 

Artificial intelligence in information systems: State of the art and research roadmap

Announcing the WAIM Doctoral Research Fellows!

Submitted by crowston on Thu, 2021-08-12 07:11
The  is delighted to announce the five WAIM Doctoral Research Fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. The Fellows were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants, which was systematically reviewed by an interdisciplinary panel of judges. Each Fellow will be supported with a $50,000 stipend to support the advancement of their dissertation research.

Hybrid intelligence in business networks

Ebel, P., Söllner, M., Leimeister, J. Marco, Crowston, K., & de Vreede, G. - J.. (2021). Hybrid intelligence in business networks. Electronic Markets. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00481-4

Using Work System Theory, Facets of Work, and Dimensions of Smartness to Characterize Applications and Impacts of AI

Submitted by stevenalter on Tue, 2020-11-24 18:16
Type: Report
Author: Steven Alter
Year of Publishing: 2020
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm, Work System Theory, Facets of Work, Dimensions of Smartness
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This paper presents an approach for describing and characterizing al-gorithms that are discussed as though they embody artificial intelligence. After identifying key assumptions related to algorithms and summarizing work sys-tem theory (WST), this paper uses a hypothetical example to introduces aspects of WST and two additional ideas, facets of work and dimensions of smartness in devices and systems. Next, it applies those ideas to aspects of five AI-related examples presented by entrepreneurs and researchers at an MIT AI conference in July 2020.

JASIST Special Issue on “Artificial Intelligence and Work”

Submitted by crowston on Wed, 2020-10-28 21:38

For this special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), we are calling for papers that advance the relationship between artificial Intelligence and work.

Looking for PhD students

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2020-10-02 12:09

I am looking for PhD students interested in working on research about the future of work with intelligent machines, as well as the work on the Gravity Spy citizen science project. Please email if you're interested and want to talk more.

Impacts of the Use of Machine Learning on Work Design

Crowston, K., & Bolici, F.. (2020). Impacts of the Use of Machine Learning on Work Design. In 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3415070

Artificial intelligence and the world of work, a co-constitutive relationship

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2020-07-06 15:50

Check out this new JASIS&T paper based on the 2019 iConference workshop: . Thanks (and congrats) to Carsten, Mohammad, Matt, Karen and Christine!

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