Human, Soheil, Gsenger, Rita, Neumann, Gustaf. 2020. End-user Empowerment: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hrsg. Tung Bui, 4102-4111. Hawaii, United States: None.
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Abstract
In virtue of fast spreading emerging technologies, considering end-user empowerment (or human empowerment) while developing or adapting technologies gains importance. Even though many different approaches to end-user empowerment have been proposed, it is hardly clear what “end-user (human) empowerment” is and how it is possible to develop “end-user empowering systems”. This paper offers an interdisciplinary perspective on how it can be possible to arrive at a synthesized concept of end-user empowerment, in particular regarding the development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The provided interdisciplinary perspective includes concepts from Computer Science, Information Systems, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Sociology, Science-Technology-Society, Design, System Science and Philosophy. Based on an interdisciplinary literature review, and from an enactivist, pluralist, and constructivist perspective, we argue that the individual end-users and their needs and values, as well as the environment (including socioeconomical contexts, other actors, etc.) and technologies they interact with, continuously co-create the conception of end-user empowerment. Moreover, we propose that perceiving technological development as co-creation, and considering technologies as value-bearers could provide the first steps in the development of conceptual frameworks required for the development of end-user empowering systems.
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- Human-centricity
- Information Systems
- Privacy
- Digital Economy
Publication's profile
Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Contribution to conference proceedings |
Language | English |
Title | End-user Empowerment: An Interdisciplinary Perspective |
Title of whole publication | Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
Editor | Tung Bui |
Page from | 4102 |
Page to | 4111 |
Location | Hawaii, United States |
Year | 2020 |
ISBN | 978-0-9981331-3-3 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64244 |
Open Access | Y |
Open Access Link | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/64244 |
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- Projects
- EXPloring opportunities and challenges for Emerging personal DaTa Ecosystems: Empowering humans in the age of the GDPR
- People
- Human, Soheil (Details)
- Gsenger, Rita (Former researcher)
- Neumann, Gustaf (Details)
- Organization
- Institute for Information Systems and New Media IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1122 Artificial intelligence (Details)
- 1138 Information systems (Details)
- 2953 Data security and data privacy (Details)
- 2962 Philosophy of technology (Details)
- 2963 Sociology of technology (Details)
- 5255 Data security and data privacy (Details)
- 5407 Ethics and social sciences (Details)
- 6830 Design (Details)