Dear colleagues,
I invite you to join a presenter symposium on the impact of artificial agents on teamwork to submit to the 80th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management taking place in Vancouver, August 7-11, 2020. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to consider your work for inclusion in this symposium.
The goal of the symposium is to advance the discussion and increase the visibility of research focusing on the impact that artificial agents (Hortensius and Cross, 2018) – such as robots, AI-powered assistants, or applications – have on team processes. Research has recently acknowledged the need for theoretical and empirical work in the domain (e.g., Amabile, 2019; Chan, 2019; Jung and Hinds, 2018), and this symposium is intended to bring together scholars working on addressing this pertinent need theoretically and empirically. I am hoping this symposium will encourage presenters and the audience to explore novel ideas, ponder current challenges, and strengthen the community engaged in this exciting research stream.
While the list below is by no means exhaustive, some possible topics of interest are:
- Alterations in team structures caused by artificial agents
- Cognitive and affective influence of artificial agents
- Network structures in teams including ties to artificial agents
- Team creativity as affected by artificial agents
- Substitution of tasks and functions previously carried out by human team members by artificial agents
In the proposed symposium, a maximum of five research papers will be included. If you are interested in joining the symposium, please email daria.morozova@hec.edu by December 11th attaching an abstract of the work you would like to present in the symposium (approx. 2000 characters). The abstract should include the title and main contributions of your project, and, if applicable, a brief description of data, methods, and analyses.
The authors will be notified by December 13th, and the extended abstracts of 2-5 pages (please see symposium submission guidelines here) are due by December 27th.
I hope you will be interested in joining this session and am looking forward to the thought-provoking interaction.
Thank you for your consideration.
Best regards,
Daria Morozova
References:
Amabile, T. GUIDEPOST: Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises Guidepost Letter for Academy of Management Discoveries. Academy of Management Discoveries, (2019).
Chan, D. (2019). Team-level constructs. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 6, 325-348.
Hortensius, R., & Cross, E. S. (2018). From automata to animate beings: the scope and limits of attributing socialness to artificial agents. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1426(1), 93-110.
Jung, M., & Hinds, P. (2018). Robots in the wild: A time for more robust theories of human-robot interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 7(1), 2.
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Daria Morozova
PhD Candidate
HEC Paris
Department of Management and Human Resources
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daria_Morozova2daria.morozova@hec.edu------------------------------