Books

Ekbia, H. (2008). Artificial dreams: The quest for non-biological intelligence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

(With Sawhney, H.) (under review). Constellation of metaphors: Technology, culture, and choice. University of Michigan Press.

 

Recent Publications

 

2011

 

Ekbia. H. (2011). Medicine, Machines, and Mediations: Coordination of Health Work. Proceedings of the Workshop on Personal Health Records and Patient-Centered Infrastructures. Trento, Italy, Dec. 12-13.

 

York, W. & Ekbia, H. (2011). Analogy, Aesthetics, and Affect: What Can HCI Designers Learn from AI. Proceedings of Beyond AI: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Artificial Intelligence. Pilsen, Czech Republic, Dec. 8-9, 2011.

 

York, W. & Ekbia, H. (2011). (Dis-)Tasteful Machines? Aesthetic Cognition and the Computational Turn in Aesthetics. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. Aarhus, Denmark. July 4-6.

 

Ekbia, H. (2011). Patterns of movement in space: An agent-based approach. In K. Johnson (Ed.), Agent-based modeling and GIS. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

 

Kutz D.O. & Ekbia, H.R. (2011). Designing for the Invincible: Health Engagement and Information Management. Paper presented at the 44th Hawaii Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, Hawaii, Jan.4–7.

 

2010

Day, R. & Ekbia, H. (2010). Digital experiences. In Kallinikos, J., Lanzara, G. F. and Nardi, B. (Ed.). The digital habitat — Rethinking experience and social practice. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 6 - 7.

Ekbia, H. (2010). Fifty years of research in artificial intelligence. In: Cronin, B. (Ed.) Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Volume 44. Medford, NJ: Information Today/American Society for Information Science and Technology, pp. 201-242.

Ekbia H., Grogg P., Kremmer D. & Kirkley J. (2010). mPower! Using Serious Health Games to Engage College Students in their Health Care. Paper presented at the Midwest Conference on Health Games. Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 29.

Ekbia, H. & Sawhney, H. (2010). Reason, Resistance, and Reversal: Metaphors of Technology in Design and Law. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Tokyo, Japan, August 24-29.

Ekbia, H., Grogg, P. & Kutz, D. (2010). Personal Health Records for College Students: A Case Study. Paper presented at the Workshop in Interactive System in Health, CHI2010, Atlanta, GA, April 11.

Ekbia, H. (2010). Personal Health Records for Self-Management Support. Paper presented at the Wellness Informatics Workshop, CHI2010, Atlanta, GA, April 10.

Ekbia H.R., Burton M.B., Delaurantis P.C., Flanagan M., Wiebke E., Lawley M. and Doebbeling B.N. (2010). A Cognitive Systems Engineering Approach for Improving Surgical Work and Information Flow. Mayo Clinic Conference on Systems Engineering & Operations Research in Health Care, Rochester, MN. August 18–20.

Hockema, S. & Ekbia, H. (2010). The Divorce of Design and Development. Proceedings of the 4th Design Principles Conference, Chicago, IL, February 12-14.

 

2009

Ekbia, H. (2009). Digital artifacts as quasi-objects: Qualification, mediation, and materiality. Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (12), 2554-2566.

Ekbia, H., & Evans, T. (2009). Regimes of information: Land use, management, and policy. The Information Society, 25, 328-343.

Ekbia, H., & Schuurman, N. (2009). Introduction to the special issue on Geographies of Information Society. The Information Society, 25: 289-290.

Ekbia, H. (2009). Regimes of information: A polity model. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain, July 1-4.

Ekbia, H. (2009). From Democritus to Descartes: Toward a posthumanist future. Paper presented at Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace, and Science Fiction Conference, Oxford, UK, July 6-8.

Ekbia, H. (2009). Information in action: A situated view. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, BC, Nov. 6–11.

Ekbia, H., Grogg, P.L., Lohrmann, D., Sullivan, M., & YousefAgha, A.H. (2009). Untying the Gordian knot: The development of an immunization information exchange. Proceedings of the America’s Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA,August 8-10.

 

2008

Ekbia, H., & Hara, N. (2008). Quality of evidence in knowledge management research: Scholarly and practitioner literature. Journal of Information Science, 34, 110-126. [PDF]

Leuteritz, T., & Ekbia, H. (2008). Not all roads lead to resilience: A complex systems approach to the study of three habitats. Ecology and Society, 13(1), (1). [PDF]

Ekbia, H. (2008). Design as a social process: The case of software development. Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, Sheffield, UK, July 16-19.

Ekbia, H. (2008). Knowing, doing, and talking: The inherent tension of artificial intelligence. Proceedings of the 2008 North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, Bloomington, IN, July 10-12. 

Ekbia, H. (2008). A grammar of movement: An agent-based modeling approach to location-based services. Proceedings of the Academic Track, GIS Business Summit, Chicago, IL, April 28-30.

Ekbia, H. (2008). Review of: Kallinikos, J. (2006). The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006
The Information Society, 24 (2), 216-218.

2007

Ekbia, H. (2007). Managing network organizations in the knowledge economy: Learning from success and failure. In U. Apte & U. Karmarkar (Eds.), Managing in the information economy (pp. 117-147). Berlin: Springer Verlag. [PDF]

Ekbia, H., & Gasser, L. (2007). Seeking reliability in freedom: The case of F/OSS. In K. Kraemer & M. Elliott (Eds.), Computerization movements and technology diffusion: From mainframes to ubiquitous computing (pp. 420-449). Medford, NJ: Information Today. [PDF]

Ekbia, H. (2007). For a sociology of code. Symposium on Social Informatics. The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-24.

Ekbia, H. (2007). Mediated interaction: Social informatics in the era of ubiquitous computing. Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, CO, August 10-12. [PDF]

Ekbia, H. (2007). Transpiring interfaces: Turning transparency on its head. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Knowledge-based User Interface. Athens, Greece, June 19-25. [PDF]

Ekbia, H. (2007). Review of: Avgerou,C., Ciborra, C., & Land, F. (Eds.). (2004). The social study of information and communication technology: Innovation, actors, and contexts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The Information Society, 23(5), 413-414.

Earlier

Ekbia, H. (2006). Taking decisions into the wild: An AI perspective on the design of iDSS.
In J. N. D. Gupta, G. A. Forgionne, & M. Mora (Eds.), Intelligent decision-making support systems: Foundations, applications and challenges (pp. 79-96). London: Springer Verlag.

Ekbia, H., & Reynolds, K. (2006). Decision support for sustainable forestry: Enhancing the basic rational model. In A. Thompson & K. M. Reynolds (Eds.), Forestry management: The past and the future (pp. 497-514). Berlin: Springer Verlag. [PDF]

Ekbia, H., & Kling, R. (2005). Network organizations: Voluntary cooperation or multivalent negotiation. The Information Society, 21(3), 155–168. [PDF]

Ekbia, H., & Hara, N. (2005). Incentive structures in knowledge management. In D. Schwartz (Ed.), Encyclopedia of knowledge management (pp. 238-241). Hershey, PA: Idea Group.

Ekbia, H. (2004). How IT mediates organizations: Enron and the California energy crisis. Journal of Digital Information, 5(4). [online]

Ekbia, H., & Kling, R. (2003). Power in knowledge management in late modern times (Recipient of a best paper award). Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management. Seattle, WA, August 1-6. [PDF]

Ekbia, H. (2002). The two senses of ‘common sense’. Proceedings of the 13th Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference. Chicago, IL, April 13-14.

Ekbia, H. R., & Maguitman, A. M. (2001). Context and relevance: A pragmatic approach. In V. Akman (Ed.), Modeling and using context (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 2116) (pp. 156-169). Berlin: Springer Verlag.