Initial list of disciplines to be involved in the WAIM RCN
| 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 |