| Discipline/Industry |
Sample research question(s) |
Exemplar conference(s) |
| AI, Machine Learning, Robotics |
What tasks can be automated? How should automation be integrated into intelligent systems? How can humans contribute in technological systems? |
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Symposia (AAAI), AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) |
| Computer-supported Cooperative work |
What socio-technological designs will enable humans and machines to work together productively? |
ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM Conf. on Supporting Group Work (Group) |
| HCI |
How do we undertake human-centered design of intelligent systems? |
ACM Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) |
| Cognitive Science |
How can machine capabilities augment human cognition? |
Cognitive Science Society (CS) |
| Design |
How can we design and prototype possible alternative economies and futures? |
Design Research Society (DRS), International Association of Design Researchers (IADR) |
| Information Studies |
What user information needs can be supplied by intelligent machines? |
iConference |
| Economics |
What are the implications of a shift in the cost of automation vs. labor? |
ACM Economics and Computation (EC), Collective Intelligence (CI) |
| Sociology, Computational Social Science |
How does sharing work with intelligent machines affect workers’ collective sense of identity? |
American Sociological Association (ASA), Computational Social Science (IC2S2) |
| Law |
What rights should workers have relative to intelligent machines? |
Law and Society (LS) |
| Organization Science |
What are the implications of intelligent machines for management and organization? How do we organize and manage human-machine collaborations? |
Academy of Management (AOM), Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC) |
| Information Systems |
What are appropriate design approaches and governance mechanisms for socio-technological systems that span the human-technology frontier? |
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group (WG) 9.1 on ICT and Work |
| Industrial and Organizational Psychology |
What are the implications of intelligent machines on the quality of work design? |
Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology |
| Ergonomics and Human Factors |
What impacts will intelligent machines have for safety and comfort of work? |
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting |
