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Call for Papers: UKAIS 2021 Annual Conference - Navigating the
‘new normal’ – Information systems for a post-pandemic world
Date & Venue: 23-24 March 2021 – The conference will be online
Submission Deadline: Friday 15th of January 2021
https://www.ukais.org/ukais-conference/ukais2021/
The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has caused unprecedented
impacts on health and global economies. These impacts have
resulted in a renewed interest in the use of Information Systems
and Information Technologies (IS/IT) to respond to the health
crisis and mitigate its effect on many industries and society.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications have been deployed as
part of the healthcare response, to understand COVID-19
transmission, improve detection rates, develop trial vaccines and
treatments, and assess the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic
(Bullock, Luccioni, Hoffmann Pham, Sin Nga Lam, & Luengo-Oroz,
2020). Semi-autonomous robots have delivered food, medication and
equipment and helped with cleaning and sterilisation in hospitals
(OECD, 2020). Mobile robots have reminded parkgoers of social
distancing requirements in Singapore, delivered food to residents
staying at home in urban areas in the UK and represented isolating
students at university graduation ceremonies in Japan (Tucker,
2020). Business continuity responses due to the unavailability of
human workers have deployed AI for support content monitoring on
YouTube, and chatbots are being used for customer service work
(Howard & Borenstein, 2020). There has also been a significant
shift in the use of IS/IT, such as video conferencing tools to
maintain contact in the workplace and for social interactions.
The widespread and rapidly increasing application of IS/IT in many
aspects of our lives is reinvigorating existing and creating
important new debates. For example, whether COVID-19 will be the
tipping point for increased use of AI and robotics to automate
work (Coombs, 2020) how big data may be organised and shared
without compromising human rights (Günther, Mehrizi, Huysman,
& Feldberg, 2017), how the balance between office based and
remote working may evolve, and whether COVID-19 will spark a
transformation in the accessibility and delivery of global higher
education (The Guardian, 2020). While the post COVID-19 future
remains uncertain, it is clear that IS/IT will be at the heart of
the global recovery. IS scholars have an essential role in
providing timely research insights that can help governments
society and business navigate this new normal.
To this end the UKAIS 2021 international conference welcomes
submissions that explore how IS/IT may be used to navigate the new
normal. For example, submissions may consider the post-covid
impacts on:
* Artificial Intelligence systems
* Bridging the Digital Divide: emancipatory IS
* Business Intelligence and Decision Support
* Business Process Management
* eBusiness and Competitive Strategy
* Economics and the Value of IS
* eGovernment Solutions to the Citizen
* Enterprise Systems
* European and Cultural Issues in IS
* Healthcare Information Systems
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Inter-Organizational Systems
* Innovative Applications of IS in Teaching
* IS Diversity and Diversity in IS
* IS Artefacts and IS Artefact Design
* IS Innovation, Adoption and Diffusion
* IS Governance and Sourcing
* Research Methods and Philosophy
* Project Management and IS Development
* Social Media
* Service Engineering and Service Management
* Ubiquitous and Mobile Information Systems
* Technologies to Promote a Healthy and Secure Society
We invite full papers and developmental papers.
* Full papers of 5000-7000 words should document established
results and will be presented according to the highest academic
standards. Allocation of a 20-minute presentation time, followed
by a Q&A. Each paper will be uploaded to the AIS eLibrary.
* Developmental papers of 1500-2000 words should document research
in progress and will be presented according to the highest
academic standards. Allocation of a 20-minute presentation time,
followed by a Q&A.
UKAIS actively encourages submissions from early career
researchers. The purpose of development papers is to enable
researchers to discuss their work whilst it is in an early stage,
so comments and feedback obtained at the event can be incorporated
in the final stages of research and writing up.
All accepted full-papers will be available internationally through
publication in the official AIS electronic library. The UKAIS
affiliation with AIS offers our authors a global reach to their
work, as all papers are part of the AIS eLibrary:
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ukais/.
References
Bullock, J., Luccioni, A., Hoffmann Pham, K., Sin Nga Lam, C.,
& Luengo-Oroz, M. (2020). Mapping the landscape of Artificial
Intelligence applications against COVID-19. ArXiv. Retrieved from
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.11336.pdf
Coombs, C. (2020). Will COVID-19 be the Tipping Point for the
Intelligent Automation of Work? A Review of the Debate and
Implications for Research. International Journal of Information
Management.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102182
Günther, W. A., Mehrizi, M. H. R., Huysman, M., & Feldberg, F.
(2017). Debating big data: A literature review on realizing value
from big data. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 26,
191–209.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2017.07.003
Howard, A., & Borenstein, J. (2020). AI, Robots, and Ethics in
the Age of COVID-19. Retrieved May 18, 2020, from
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ai-robots-and-ethics-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
OECD. (2020). Using artificial intelligence to help combat
COVID-19. OECD.
https://doi.org/10.1787/eedfee77-en
The Guardian. (2020). “Students like the flexibility”: why online
universities are here to stay. Retrieved June 26, 2020, from
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/may/27/students-like-the-flexibility-why-online-universities-are-here-to-stay
Tucker, I. (2020, May). The five: robots helping to tackle
coronavirus. The Guardian. Retrieved from
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/31/the-five-robots-helping-to-tackle-coronavirus
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Reader in Information Systems
Senior Editor, European Journal of Information Systems
Senior Editor, Information Technology & People
School of Business and Economics
Loughborough University, UK
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