The 19th International Conference on ICT, Society, and Human Beings is dedicated to exploring how information and communication technologies shape human life, work, society, and wellbeing across personal, professional, and global contexts.
Key Topics
- Life environment and ICT
- Work environment/Work place
- Psychosocial environment
- Work content – Work tasks
- Quality of Working Life
- Decision support systems
- Organizational structure
- Power structure-formal and informal
- Human-human communication
- Career patterns
- Leadership
- Working hours and salary/compensation
- Influence/participation
- Physical and ergonomic conditions
- Work pace/work load
- Changes in the way we are (‘being’)
- Changes in the concept of time
- Home Environment
- Learning and knowledge growth
- Private Environment
- Public Environment
- Virtual (on-line) communities
- Virtual Environment
- Organisational Design and Management
- Globalization and ICT
- Glocalization processes
- Globalization processes
- Labour market (outsourcing, integration, mobility)
- Values, norms
- Virtual worlds
- Universal access
- Rethinking economic and social theories
- Global villages
- Sustainability, Democracy
- Human capital theory
- Vulnerability
- Global catastrophes
- Peace and war
- ICT and effects on humans
- Psychosocial impact
- Analyses of impact as well as technology contributing to desirable human qualities
- Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging, autonomy, influence)
- Life styles
- Wellbeing and health
- Happiness and fun
- Identity
- Dependency
- Trust – security – privacy
- Integrity
- Availability
- Addictiveness (games)
- Human memory
- Motivation
- Stress (over- and understimulation)
- Cyber sickness
- Fatigue
- Workload
- Skills and competencies
- Love and relationships
- Problem solving
- Creativity
- Analyses of impact as well as technology contributing to desirable human qualities
- Social competenceICT and effects on humans
- Life styles
- Psychosocial impact
- Happiness and fun
- Human needs (meaningfulness, belonging, autonomy, influence)
- Dependency
- Wellbeing and health
- Integrity
- Identity
- Addictiveness (games)
- Trust – security – privacy
- Motivation
- Availability
- Cyber sickness
- Human memory
- Workload
- Stress (over- and understimulation)
- Love and relationships
- Fatigue
- Creativity
- Skills and competencies
- Social competence
- Problem solving
- Life role and ICT
- Professional role
- Citizen’s role
- Private role
- Leadership role
- Home of the future
- Virtual roles
- Role conflicts
- Mobile life
- Desirable goals and ICT
- Humanization
- Integration
- Bridging the digital gap
- Reducing poverty
- Democratization
- Freedom of expression
- E-democracy
- E-cooperation
- Sustainability
- Peace
- Involvement, empowerment
- Accountability, responsibility
- Human welfare
- Wellbeing Health
- Human Rights
- Quality of life
- Perspectives on ICT
- Cross-cultural
- Social and psychosocial
- Gender
- Theoretical
- Rural – urban
- Class
- Economic
- Multimodal
- Ethical
- Actions for reaching the Good Information Society
- Community (physical and virtual) level
- Individual level
- International level
- Governmental level
- Design of societal systems – rethinking
- Civil society and social change in communities
