AIMtech research centre invites you to the following hybrid seminar:
“Toward a process-based, interpretative understanding of how collaborative groups deal with ICT interruptions”
- Date: 10 May 2024
- Time: 10 am – 11 am
- Location: Maurice Keyworth 1.44 (Hybrid – Teams link below)
- Speaker: Professor Virpi Tuunainen (Aalto University)
Abstract
In this seminar Professor Tuunainen will explore contemporary knowledge workers collaboration in hybrid work environment and how they deal with ICT interruptions. She investigates how do knowledge workers deal with such interruptions to ensure the smooth continuation of their collaboration? Previous studies, for the most part, suggest that interruptions are likely to negatively affect the process of collaboration, yet they’ve found that in many instances, knowledge workers continue to collaborate smoothly despite receiving ICT interruptions and even attending to them. In other words, ICT interruptions do not always discernibly affect the collaborative process. Using the concepts from Goffman’s work, she will offer a novel understanding of how group members can seamlessly handle ICT interruptions, avoiding and, in certain cases, recovering from serious disruptions in collaboration.
Speaker
Professor Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen: Virpi is Associate Dean of Research and International Cooperation and Professor of Information Systems Science (Department of Information and Service Management) at Aalto University School of Business, and past director of Aalto University Service Factory (2010-2015). She was a Jubilee Professor at the Department of Applied IT in Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2017. Earlier, she has been a visiting professor/researcher in University of Hong Kong, University of Texas at Austin (USA), Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), University of Auckland (New Zealand), Roskilde University (Denmark) and Copenhagen Business School (Denmark). Her current research focuses on platform economy and AI based services. Her work has appeared in journals, such as, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management and Information Society, and in conferences, such as, ICIS, ECIS and HICSS. She currently serves Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems.
If you have any questions, please email David Allen d.allen@lubs.leeds.ac.uk or Jyoti Mishra j.l.mishra@leeds.ac.uk .