General Chairs:          Alan Hevner and Michael Myers

Program Chairs:         Anol Bhattacherjee and Brian Fitzgerald

Organizing Chairs:     Rosann Webb Collins and Joni Jones

 

 

Since the founding of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in 1960 as a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing information processing throughout the world, the research and practice of information and communication technologies (ICT) has experienced seismic changes.  Organizational computing architectures have shifted from mainframe computing to client-server to distributed to cloud computing, information technology has spawned new business models based on electronic commerce and service-oriented architecture, communities and nations are relying on ICT to leapfrog into the future, and as the recent events in the Middle-East demonstrate, online social media has provided a new voice to a worldwide movement toward democracy. Researchers are continuously challenged to find innovative approaches to perform relevant and rigorous ICT studies.

 

In the context of this changing world of ICT, what are the key research problems that we, as ICT researchers, should be studying, and how should we be studying such problems?  This international conference issues a call to present research designs and programs that have the potential to shape the future of ICT research.  We welcome research papers that explore new directions in the design, use, and impacts of ICT in our organizational and social lives, papers that explore new or integrated methods for studying issues relevant to ICT research, and papers that can provoke a healthy debate on the conduct of future ICT research. In particular, we welcome ICT research proposals that transcend boundaries between theories, methods, approaches, and disciplines. 

 

Thought leaders in the ICT community are encouraged to participate and help in forming a vision and agenda for the future of relevant and rigorous ICT research methods and approaches for the next decade. Our goal is to broaden this discussion beyond the Information Systems community to include researchers from the many ICT-related disciplines.

 

Examples of suggested research questions for discussion include, but are not limited to:

 

• How can we design better ICT artifacts for the future? What is the role of design science in ICT research?
• How will we use or appropriate ICT in the future in our personal, social, or organizational lives? How will ICT impact our personal, social, or professional lives in the future?
• How should IS researchers study non-organizational uses of ICT? How should we study phenomena which stretch traditional IS boundaries, such as Wikipedia, FLOSS?
• How can we design mixed-method research projects that adequately address the issues of concerns for future ICT research? How do we best integrate positivist, interpretative, and design research methods?
• How can be build better theories of ICT design, use, or effects, and how do we judge the utility of such theories?
• What goals or metrics can we employ to judge ICT success in the future?
• How can ICT inform or influence social or national debates toward anti-corruption or democracy? What social and political constraints restrict the potential benefits of ICT, and how can we overcome such constraints?
• How can ICT inform or influence issues of sustainability for organizations and society? What is the future of GreenIT and Energy Informatics initiatives?
• What are prospective new directions for future ICT research and/or practice?
• How does ICT research accommodate the shift to ‘digital native’ consumers?
• Exemplar research projects that demonstrate promising new approaches for ICT research.

 

Important Dates

Deadline for Paper Submission:                                 1 July 2012

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection Decisions:       1 September 2012

Final Papers and Proceedings Materials:                   1 October 2012

Date of conference:                                                    13-14 December, 2012

 

Submission Guidelines

We invite those interested in participating to submit one of the following:

• Completed research papers (7000 words maximum - strictly enforced)
• Short essays (new and innovative research methodologies for ICT research) (3000 words)

Papers will be double blind reviewed. Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer as an IFIP AICT volume. Template is available at LNCS author guidelines (pdf, 119 kB)

Further information and updates will be available at the conference website:

www.ifip82-2012.usf.edu

 

 

 

 

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Prof Brian Fitzgerald, PhD, FICS, FBCS, CEng

Frederick Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business and Technology

Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre

University of Limerick

http://www.csis.ul.ie/staff/BF/