6^th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems

 

IS: Crossroads of Technology, People, Organizations and Markets

 

Limassol, Cyprus - September 3-5, 2011

 

Track: Human Behavior and IT

 

Track Chairs:

·         Ioanna Constantiou, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, ic.inf@cbs.dk

·         Khaled Hassanein, McMaster University, Canada, hassank@mcmaster.ca

·         Marios Koufaris, Baruch College, CUNY, USA, marios.koufaris@baruch.cuny.edu  

 

Information Technology (IT) and human behavior have been intertwined from the early days of computing. Beginning with the operators of “electronic accounting machines” to today’s “always plugged-in” users, humans and IT have been shaping each other in a variety of ways. In today’s user-driven environments, human behavior, in the form of IT use and appropriation, has determined how certain technologies have changed. For instance, Twitter has evolved in its current form through the way its early users appropriated it to suit their particular needs.  On the other hand, IT has been influencing human behavior at an accelerating pace, as it becomes ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive. For example, the digitization of information products, like music and movies, and their availability through on-demand services have dramatically changed the way we consume and share those products.

 

This track welcomes papers that examine the relationship between human behavior and IT from all angles and reference disciplines. Such papers may address issues such as human behavior surrounding the use or creation of IT in the workplace, the impact of certain technologies on our daily conduct in non-work environments, or any other context where human actions and IT meet. While we expect that most studies will be at the level of analysis of the user, we also welcome papers on studies that examine human behavior at higher, more aggregate levels. Papers that subscribe to inter-disciplinary perspectives, adopt mixed methods and/or address the Mediterranean context are particularly welcome.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Computer-mediated communication

·         Virtual communities and virtual teams

·         User acceptance, adoption, and use of IS/IT

·         User behavior in social networks

·         User behavior and social/cultural factors in IS/IT

·         User behavior in electronic and mobile commerce

·         User experience and human behavior in IS/IT

·         Human information seeking behavior

·         NeuroIS applications in HCI

·         Trust issues in IS/IT use

·         Understanding the IS/IT user experience of older adults

·         Training and learning issues in IS/IT adoption and use

·         Utilitarian and hedonic factors in IS/IT adoption and use

Conference Submissions

 

Articles should be submitted electronically as PDF files via the EasyChair submission system at: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mcis2011

 

 

When submitting, authors should indicate the track for which they wish their paper to be considered.

 

Submissions will be subjected to peer review.

 

Authors are advised to format their papers to conform to the structuring guidelines described in the MCIS 2011 document template that is posted on the conference website at:  http://www.mcis2011.org/wpcontent/uploads/2011/02/MCIS_template_2011.doc

 

Types of contributions, in English, via the EasyChair Submission System:

 

·         Full research papers (7–12 pages)

·         Extended abstracts and short research-in-progress papers (3–7 pages)

·         Research and teaching case studies (7–12 pages)

 

Important Due Dates

 

·         Deadline for submissions: May 2^nd, 2011

·         Notification of acceptance: June 15^th, 2011

·         Camera-ready versions: July 1^st, 2011

 

Proceedings

 

Conference Proceedings will be published online. The proceedings will be listed in major citation databases such as EBSCO, ABI Inform, etc.

 

For more information on the conference, please visit

 

http://www.mcis2011.org/

 

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Marios Koufaris

Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems

Coordinator, Ph.D. program in Information Systems

Baruch College, City University of New York
Phone: (646)-312-3373, Fax: (646)-312-3351
Web site: http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/koufaris

Ph.D. Program: http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/phd