Workshop: Rethinking the Value of Busyness in IT

虽然信息技术（IT）承诺通过提供效率和生产力来解放我们的辛勤劳动并节省我们的时间，提高我们的生活质量，但同时它们提高了我们应该完成的标准，增加了我们需要处理的信息量，并培养了一种速度和可访问性的感觉。因此，忙碌的价值可能隐含在IT设计中。该奖项资助了一个研究研讨会，以创建一个关于未来IT设计的研究议程，以解释忙碌的文化。工作坊的参加者会探讨两个问题：（1）资讯科技在应付及/或促进繁忙文化方面扮演甚么角色？ 以及（2）通过改变信息技术的设计或其使用实践，在多大程度上可以干预繁忙文化？通过这些初步的问题，与会者将确定在理解社会技术方面的理论和经验差距忙碌在个人，组织和社会层面，并将确定技术和社会的机会和挑战，在设计和应用IT干预措施，为此目的。工作坊将以三种方式招募及甄选参加者：（1）个别邀请曾就本课题进行研究的学者;（2）透过有关的邮寄名单，邀请他们提交意见书;及（3）邀请对本课题有兴趣的本地研究生参加。本次研讨会的成果将是制定一个研究议程，以更好地理解和解决嵌入在IT中的忙碌的价值。具体来说，我们计划提交一篇文章给普通读者杂志来描述这个研究议程。此外，当我们确定正在进行的具体研究时，我们计划在主要期刊上提出一个特刊，以便将有关该主题的结果集中在一起。

While information technologies (IT) promise to liberate us of hard labor and save us time by offering efficiency and productivity, improving our quality of life, at the same time they raise the standards of what we should accomplish and increase the amount of information we need to deal with and foster a sense of increased pace and accessibility. As such, the value of busyness may be implicitly embedded in IT design. This award funds a research workshop to create a research agenda on the design of future IT to account for the culture of busyness. The workshop participants will address two question: (1) What are the roles of IT in coping with and/or promoting a culture of busyness?, and (2) To what extent is it possible to intervene in the culture of busyness by altering the design of IT or its use practices? Through these initial questions the participants will identify theoretical and empirical gaps in understanding sociotechnical aspects of busyness at the individual, organizational, and societal level and will identify both technical and social opportunities and challenges in the design and application of IT interventions for this purpose. Workshop participants will be recruited and selected in three ways: (1) specific scholars who have done research related to this topic will be individually invited; (2) a general solicitation to submit position papers will be sent out through relevant mailing lists; and (3) local graduate students with interest in this topic will be invited to take part. The outcome of this workshop will be to develop a research agenda for better understanding and addressing the value of busyness embedded in IT. Specifically, we plan to submit an article to a general audience journal to describe this research agenda. Further, as we identify specific research being done, we plan to propose a special issue at a major journal in order to group together results about this topic.