9am - 9:15am: Welcome and Introductions for the Day: Matthew Weber and Joshua Barbour
9:15am - 10am: Keynote Opening: Paul Leonardi, University of California, Santa Barbara
“What is Real? Simulation and Communication in the Age of Prediction”
10:00am - 10:15am: Coffee Break
10:15am - 11:30am: Morning Session: Panelists will present about existing theories that address the future of work, and will talk about the challenges and opportunities that exist in extant research.
Session Introduction - Matthew Weber, University of Minnesota: Theorizing About & Working With Technology
Session Panelists:
Mark Aakhus (Rutgers University): This talk introduces design argumentation for inquiry into the digitalization of work practice and conduct, focusing on the digital institutionalization of ideas about communication into work and technology to make them available for description, evaluation, re-design, and contestation by stakeholders.
Sunny Lee (University of Oklahoma): This presentation will discuss findings from ongoing experiments on human-computer (robot) interactions, suggesting gender and task type (cognitive vs. affective) influence future workers’ trust of an AI-based personal assistant (i.e., Siri) and social presence felt during the interactions.
Kerk Kee (Chapman University): Based on a study of a nationwide and distributed consortium of high-performance computing resources (XSEDE), this presentation explores the diffusion of an emerging innovation for big data called ‘cyberinfrastructure’ (CI).
Samantha Shorey (University of Texas at Austin): This presentation will consider technology design practices, with a focus on the historically feminized forms of labor that occur before and alongside automated systems.
11:30am - 12:00pm :Pre-Lunch - Poster Session: Just prior to lunch, there will be a speed-poster session with two minute presentation of research interests followed by a rapid mixer among participants.
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm - 2:15pm: Breakout Sessions: Following lunch, participants will be broken into groups based on pre-submitted keywords, and will be asked to think develop common research questions for future inquiry. The breakout sessions will provide an opportunity for researchers to develop collaborative ideas and to build networks amongst like-minded scholars. Groups will be asked to report back on their common themes.
2:15pm - 3:30pm: Afternoon Session: Panelists will focus on challenges created by new information communication technology, automation and algorithmic work.
Session Introduction - Joshua Barbour, University of Texas at Austin: Complexity & ethics of future work.
Session Panelists:
Leila Bighash (University of Arizona): Technological advances change organizational norms concerning surveillance and social eavesdropping. Observers face strategic and ethical choices when deciding when and how to intercept the communication of others. The observed must consider the consequences if private communication is intercepted.
Shiv Ganesh (University of Texas at Austin): The dystopian potential for any contemporary workplace technologies has always been as immense as its utopian possibilities. This talk considers this in the context of emerging forms of inequality created by automation and the possibilities for digital collective action to counter those dynamics.
Kirstie McAllum (University of Montreal): This work focuses on those who face the challenge of combining professional service provision with unpaid labor in the nonprofit sector. These work arrangements challenge where and how we can demand or expect to see expertise enacted.
Casey Pierce (University of Michigan): Telehealth platforms – using information and communication technologies to provide care over distance – are becoming a key to healthcare delivery models. Little work has considered the implications for clinicians’ work arrangements. This presentation discusses how telehealth platforms are changing clinical work arrangements and professional jurisdictions through gig work models.
3:30pm - 3:45pm: Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:30pm: Keynote Reflector: Patrice Buzzanell (University of South Florida). The afternoon will conclude with a keynote reflector providing closing thoughts on the flow of the day and emergent themes.
4:30pm - 5:00pm: Closing thoughts and what's next