ALOIS*2006 Topics.

The general theme

The theme of the ALOIS-conferences is the action concept, viewed as a primary tool for in-terpretation, description, explanation, and design. The concrete domain is the interplay be-tween information systems and organizational communication and action.

A non-exclusive list of possible topics

Organizational studies
• Action within pervasive technologies
• The social interaction in business processes
• Action and communication in organizational coordination and collaboration
• Negotiation and exchange processes in electronic commerce
• Pragmatics of knowledge management
• Management and strategy of organizational change
• IS usage as language games
• IS usage, organizational actions, and organizational effects
• Pragmatic evaluation of information systems

Language and communication
• Work-practice languages and IS development
• Communicative and instrumental actions in organizations

Design methodologies
• “Actability” as a design-criterion
• Learning in IS development
• User-designer interaction in IS development
• Activity-based design
• Acting inside an interface: the design-challenges of pervasive computing:.
• IS, action, and innovation
• The practices of requirements engineering

Theory and method
• Theories of actions and activities
• The notion of “actability”
• Action and physical space
• Action-oriented theories of language and communication
• The technology-society relation in Actor-Network Theory
• Research strategies and methods for pragmatic studies
• Action research methods and action-oriented research frameworks
• Practice epistemologies
• Action-oriented theorization of IT artifacts
• Comparison between different action-theoretic positions

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