Personal ICT: Design, use and impacts The rapid diffusion of powerful technology has infused our lives with a plenitude of devices and services. With more mobile devices than people on earth and a growing number of products and services entering individuals private sphere, this area of digitization calls for further attention. Such personal ICT serve various purposes and range from devices such as smartphones, smartwatches, smart home and health trackers; services such as instant messengers and advanced personal assistants; to complex peer-to-peer ecosystems such as social networks, sharing services, and collaborative systems. Accordingly, this track focuses on the design, use and impacts of these devices, services and complex product-service systems that are preliminary aimed at individuals in their different and varying roles as consumers, family members, friends, and citizens. This track aims at conflating perspectives on (1) the unique aspects of designing and building such ICT,(2) their impacts on individuals, organizations, and society, as well as (3) the challenges in managing them. For the benefit of individuals, firms, and society, this track seeks to gather insights that can be used to actively shape i.e. understand, facilitate, and if necessary limit - the role of these novel technologies in individuals everyday lives. The topics surrounding personal ICT have recently gained traction with more and more publications in our premier outlets focusing on personal rather than organisational information technology and multiple special issues (e.g., Information Systems Journal, Electronic Markets) calling for more research in this topic area. The track aligns well with the ECIS 2019 conference theme Information Systems for a Sharing Society since the digitization of individuals personal spheres provides them with new capabilities and opportunities to control their own lives and their data, and to transform their interactions with other individuals, organisations, and governments. At the same time, those developments create new challenges and issues that we need to understand and mitigate. We encourage both full paper and research-in-progress paper submissions on the topic from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Topics include but are not limited to: - Management and use of personal ICT Interaction patterns with personal ICT Discontinuance of personal ICT Interdependencies between different devices and services in individuals ICT portfolios - Impact of personal ICT Positive direct impacts (e.g., convenience, happiness, health improvements, ) Negative direct impacts (e.g., exhaustion, physical well-being, ) Indirect impacts on third parties (e.g., family, peers, society, organizations) Rebound effects (e.g., reduced creativity) - Design of personal ICT
Approaches to develop ICT and related services tied to the needs of individuals Design characteristics for personal ICT Publishing Opportunities in Leading Journals High quality and relevant papers from this track will be selected for fast-tracked development towards Internet Research (www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/intr). Selected papers will need to expand in content and length in line with the requirements for standard research articles published in the journal. Although the track co-chairs are committed to guiding the selected papers towards final publication, further reviews may be needed before the final publication decision can be made. Internet Research (IntR) is an international and refereed journal that is indexed and abstracted in major databases (e.g., SSCI, SCI, ABI/INFORM Global), with the impact factor 3.017 in 2015. 1 Name(main contact) Organizatio n URL Short Biography Manuel Trenz Track Co-Chairs manuel.trenz@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de University of Augsburg, Germany http://www.wiwi.uni-augsburg.de/en/bwl/veit/team/assistantprofessors/trenz/ Manuel Trenz is assistant professor of the Chair for Information Systems and Management at the University of Augsburg and research associate at the research department for " Digital Economy" of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). His research focuses on the convergence of digital and physical sales channels, IT-driven transformation and disruption, and the implications of innovative IT services on user perceptions and behavior. His work has been published in Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and others. He served as Track Chair at ECIS 2017 und ECIS 2018 and is currently an Associate Editor for Internet Research.
2 Name Christian Matt christian.matt@iwi.unibe.ch Organizatio University of Bern n URL http://www.iwi.unibe.ch/about_us/people/prof_dr_matt_christian/index_e ng.html Short Biography Christian Matt is an at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from LMU Munich and was a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on digital transformation strategies and digital value creation, as well as the design and use of personal information systems. Among others, his work has appeared in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Electronic Markets, MIS Quarterly Executive, Business and Information Systems Engineering. He is currently an Associate Editor for Internet Research. 3 Name Juliana Sutanto Professor j.sutanto@lancaster.ac.uk Professor in Information Systems Organizatio Lancaster University n URL http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/people/juliana-sutanto Short Biography Juliana Sutanto is a Professor in Information Systems, Co-Director of Connected Communities Research Lab, and Director of MSc. in E-Business and Innovation at the Department of Management Science of Lancaster University Management School. Her research focuses on artefact design and behavioural analysis in digital communications and interactions; as such she subscribes herself to the design and behavioural sciences paradigms. She examines how user interactions with IS could lead to organizational and societal benefits. She is currently researching on connected and resilient communities. Her research work has been published in leading information systems journals such as MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, as well as in leading general management journal such as Management Science. She is currently an Associate Editor in MIS Quarterly.
Track Associate Editors 1 Name Alam, Lubna lubna.alam@deakin.edu.au Associate Professor Organization Deakin Business School, Australia 2 Name Benbunan-Fich, Raquel Raquel.Benbunan-Fich@baruch.cuny.edu Associate Professor Organization Baruch College, City University of New York, USA 3 Name Buchwald, Arne arne.buchwald@ebs.edu Organization EBS University, Germany 4 Name Fichman, Pnina fichman@indiana.edu Professor Organization Indiana University Bloomington, USA 5 Name Jiang, Qiqi qj.digi@cbs.dk Organization Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 6 Name Köster, Antonia antonia.koester@uni-potsdam.de Organization University of Potsdam, Germany 7 Name Leukel, Jörg joerg.leukel@uni-hohenheim.de
Organization University of Hohenheim, Germany 8 Name McKenna, Brad b.mckenna@uea.ac.uk Lecturer Organization University of East Anglia, UK 9 Name Ou, Carol carol.ou@tilburguniversity.edu Associate Professor Organization Tilburg University, Netherlands 10 Name Peters, Christoph christoph.peters@unisg.ch Organization University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 11 Name Pfeiffer, Jella jella.pfeiffer@kit.edu Organization KIT, Germany 12 Name Soliman, Wael Wael.soliman@jyu.fi Organization University of Jyväskylä, Finland 13 Name Tiefenbeck, Verena vtiefenbeck@ethz.ch Organization ETH Zürich, Switzerland 14 Name Turel, Ofir oturel@fullerton.edu Professor
Organization California State University, Fullerton, USA