Building on my recent work on human flourishing in the age of artificial intelligence that followed a panel session at the European Conference on Information Systems (Norway, 2023) I’m thrilled to share that we have now published a full research paper Human Flourishing in the Digital Age in one of the leading information systems journals, the Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS). From their recent post on LinkedIn to promote the publication, they announced the following:
“CAIS is excited to announce the publication of an IS Panel Report, “Human Flourishing in the Digital Age: What Responsibilities does/should the Researcher(s) Have? Perspectives from the AIS Community”, by Dina Koutsikouri, University of Gothenburg, Lena Hylving, University of Oslo and Halmstad University, Marigo Raftopoulos, Tampere University, Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Toronto Metropolitan University, Frantz Rowe, Nantes Université, and Olgerta Tona, University of Gothenburg.”
This was an amazing collaboration to work with like-minded scholars in a field that aligned with my Augmented Humans project. I’ll be talking more about this field over the next few months as my ongoing research is coalescing in this area. What I love about this paper is that it’s a call to action for information systems researchers to take a more proactive role in promoting rational, responsible discussion around artificial intelligence, without the hype. For now here is the abstract to this paper.
Abstract
In this paper, we report on a panel discussion at the 2023 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2023) held in Kristiansand, Norway. This panel discussed what role human flourishing plays in information systems (IS) research and what information systems researchers can do to promote it in increasingly digitalized societies. We believe that we, as IS researchers, are able to develop new and valuable insights regarding the challenges and opportunities of digital technologies and how this can be ameliorated into hope for a world where humans can live well. Hence, the panelists discussed and debated their perspectives on human flourishing and how information systems (IS) researchers can take the lead as well as become more sensitive to the ways we study human flourishing in the world. We use their rich discussion to develop four pathways for exploring the impact of digital technologies on human flourishing and offer an agenda for future research.
Recommended Citation
Koutsikouri, D., Hylving, L., Raftopoulos, M., Ngwenyama, O., Rowe, F., & Tona, O. (2024). Human Flourishing in the Digital Age: What Responsibilities does/should Researcher(s) Have? Perspectives from the AIS Community. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 55, 178-192. https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05507
Funding Statement
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101023024 for Augmented-Humans.
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