Invited Talks, Workshops and Interviews

Digital Discipline: The Active Complicity of the Modern Subject. Information Systems and Innovation Group. London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK, (Dec. 6, 2011).

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Best Practices for Understanding and Evaluating Clinical Workflows (November 13-17, 2010). AMIA Annu Symp. Invited Panel, Boston, MA.

NSF Workshop on the Future of Research on Computer Games and Virtual Worlds (September 23-24, 2010). University of California, Irvine.

Workshop on the Future of Research on Free/Open Source Software (June 23-24, 2010). Computing Community Consortium, Computing Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Dubious Partners: Serious Games and Personal Health (April 8, 2010). Health Informatics Seminar. School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Computerization of Health: Personalizing the Impersonal (March 5, 2010). Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics. Bloomington, IN.

Uneven Spatialities — The Material, Virtual, and Cognitive. Interview with Eric Sheppard. The Information Society, 25, 364-369.

Health Information and Privacy (October 26–27, 2009). A Research Agenda for Privacy and Security of Healthcare Technologies Workshop, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.

Personal Health Records: An Interactive View (September 23–25, 2009). The 11th Biennial Regenstrief Institute "Open Health Methodologies" Conference, French Lick, IN.

Cognitive Science: A History (August 4, 2008). Department of Computer Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

SDS Knowledge Portal Workshop (May 6-7, 2008). The Redlands Institute, Redlands, CA.

Minding the Machine (April 15, 2008). Association for Computing Machinery, Student Chapter, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Agent-Based Modeling in GIS (March 30, 2008). Complex Networks and Systems Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Agent Analyst (March 27, 2008). Colloquium, Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

SDSS Knowledge Repository Workshop (February 8-9, 2008). The Redlands Institute, Redlands, CA.

Mental Models in Information Science (February 4, 2008). Seminar on Philosophy of Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Social Informatics: The Past and the Future (November. 14, 2007). Student Callout, Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 

Bridging the Gulf between ABM and GIS: A Three-Tier Approach (April 15-16, 2007). National Science Foundation Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Making Sense of Bugs: A Discourse Analysis Approach (March 26, 2006). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Artificial Intelligence: Hype versus Hope (July 14, 2005). Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

Network Organizations: From Theory to Practice (May 4, 2005). CRITO Series, University of California, Irvine, CA.

Understanding Change: Lessons from Enron (April 5, 2005). MBA Program, School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.

Discourses of Reliability in Free/Open Software Movement (March 5, 2005). National Science Foundation Workshop on Social Informatics, Irvine, CA.

Discourses of Reliability in Free/Open Software Development (March 4, 2005). Colloquium, School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.

Network Organizations: An Extended Multivalent Model (February 18, 2005). School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

The Management of Change: Lessons from Enron (April 17, 2004). MBA Program, School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.

Network Organizations: A Multivalent Model (November 7, 2003). Colloquium, School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.

The Role of Representations in Open Source Software Development (October 9, 2003). National Science Foundation, Continuous Design Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

How Far Are We Networked, Indeed? (November 20, 2002). Department of High Technology Management, California State University, San Marcos, CA.

 

Recent Conference and Workshop Presentations

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.

Burton, M. Zafar, A. Lehto, M., EKbia, H., & Doebbeling, B. Understanding How We Care for Patients: Information Needs and Best Practices for Capturing Clinical Workflow. AMIA Annu Symp. Nov. 13-17. Washington D.C.

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.

Oberlin, K. & Ekbia, H. (2009, October). The World City Revisited: Models as Mediators.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Washington D. C.

Ekbia, H. (2009). Regimes of information. 7th European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Barcelona, Spain, July 1-4.

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

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

Ekbia, H. (2008, November). Chair, Panel on information spaces. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Columbus, OH.

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

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

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

Ekbia, H. (2008, April). Chair, Panel on geographies of information society. The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.

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

Ekbia, H. (2007, October). The informational style of thinking. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, Québec.

Ekbia, H. (2007, April). Changing GIS to accommodate change: A critical-technical approach. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, CA.

Turner, T., & Ekbia, H. (2006, June). Representation of change in GIS: From theory to practice. AutoCarto Conference, Vancouver, WA.

Hara, N., & Ekbia, H. (2005, October). Internet-enabled social movements: Two case studies. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, CA.

Ekbia, H., & Strout, N. (2005, October). Standardizing space: The case of a spatial digital library. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, CA.

Ekbia, H. (2005, June). Reliability as a sustaining element in free/open source software. 2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Milan, Italy.

Ekbia, H., & Gasser, L. (2005, March). Discourses of reliability in F/OSS movement. Paper presented for NSF workshop on Social Informatics, Irvine, CA.

Hara, N., & Ekbia, H. (2004, December). Moving on with technology. OASIS Preconference Workshop, International Conference on Information Systems, Washington D.C. 

Ekbia, H. (2003, October). Multiple mediations: Commodity traders, knowledge brokers, and truth makers. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA.

Hara, N., & Ekbia, H. (2003, October). Quality of evidence in knowledge management research: Where is the beef? Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Atlanta, GA.

Ekbia, H. (2003, September). Managing network organizations in the information economy. Paper presented at the Seminar on Management in Information Economy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Ekbia, H. (2003, August). Power in knowledge management. Academy of Management Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.

Ekbia, H., Goldberg, J., & Landy, D. (2003, April). Starting large or small: The unresolved dilemma in connectionist models of language learning. Workshop in Computational Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Ekbia, H. (2002, November). AI’s disparity syndrome. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, WI.

Ekbia, H., & Kling, R. (2002, October). When the Net doesn’t work: The case of Enron. The 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Ekbia, H. (2002, August). From AI to IS: The challenge of working across disciplines. The International Symposium on Research Methods in Information Science (ISRM), Dallas, TX.

Ekbia, H. (2001, November). Once again, artificial intelligence at a crossroads. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston, MA.