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The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale (2021)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D., & Fletcher, G. (2021). The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale. In M. Goedicke, E. Neuhold, & K. Rannenberg (Eds.), Advancing Research in Information and Communication Technology : IFIP's exciting first 60+ years, views from the Technical Committees and Working Groups (363-380). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81701-5_15

In this chapter we briefly recount the history of the Human Choice and Computers conference series, and of Technical Committee 9, and show that not only has there been a marked focus, over more than four decades, on a critical and sociotechnical appr... Read More about The impact of Human Choice and Computers and Technical Committee 9 on ICTs and society : a critical sociotechnical tale.

Being a data professional : give voice to value in a data driven society (2020)
Journal Article
Gotterbarn, D., & Kreps, D. (2021). Being a data professional : give voice to value in a data driven society. AI and Ethics, 1(2), 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-020-00027-y

Data Analytics needs to have ethical standards. There are numerous examples of why this is so, and the paper cites four particularly egregious ones. The paper offers both reasons why such standards are currently missing or inadequate, and how they mi... Read More about Being a data professional : give voice to value in a data driven society.

Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital (2019)
Book
Kreps, D. E. A. (2019). D. Kreps (Ed.), Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital. London: Routledge

This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the for... Read More about Understanding digital events : Bergson, Whitehead, and the experience of the digital.

Southern theories in ICT4D (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Kreps, D., & Bass, J. (2019). Southern theories in ICT4D. In P. Nielsen, & H. Kimaro (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_1

This paper suggests that the dominance of northern research paradigms in ICT4D may be viewed as a continuation of colonial sway over the endeavors of the global South. The notion of Southern Theory - as introduced in the work of Raewyn Connell, the... Read More about Southern theories in ICT4D.

I am a person : a review of value sensitive design for cognitive declines of ageing, interpreted through the lens of personhood (2019)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Burmeister, O. (2019). I am a person : a review of value sensitive design for cognitive declines of ageing, interpreted through the lens of personhood. Orbit, 2(2), https://doi.org/10.29297/orbit.v2i2.79

This paper presents a conception of personhood as both physical and social, and both as radically contingent upon their respective physical and social environments. In the context of age-related cognitive decline, particularly dementia, it supports l... Read More about I am a person : a review of value sensitive design for cognitive declines of ageing, interpreted through the lens of personhood.

Infomateriality (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2018, December). Infomateriality. Presented at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), San Francisco, USA

This paper argues for the notion of 'infomateriality' as an orientation for IS research and as an alternative to and in distinction from sociomateriality. It sees Orlikowski’s relatively recent exposition of sociomateriality as developing out of her... Read More about Infomateriality.

This changes everything – ICT and climate change : what can we do? (2018)
Book
(2018). D. Kreps, C. Ess, L. Leenen, & K. Kimppa (Eds.), This changes everything – ICT and climate change : what can we do?. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99605-9

This book contains the proceedings of the 13th International Human Choice and Computers (HCC13) Conference, held at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, during September 19–21, 2018. The conference was held by the International Federati... Read More about This changes everything – ICT and climate change : what can we do?.

Power influences upon technology design for age-related cognitive decline using the VSD framework (2018)
Journal Article
Burmeister, O., & Kreps, D. (2021). Power influences upon technology design for age-related cognitive decline using the VSD framework. Ethics and Information Technology, 23(1), 95-98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9460-x

Implicit in the value sensitive design (VSD) approach is a concern for understanding, and where possible, disrupting problematic power relationships. Yet an awareness of the issues and ethics of power relations is a pre-requisite for such a concern t... Read More about Power influences upon technology design for age-related cognitive decline using the VSD framework.

Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems (2018)
Book
Kreps, D. (2018). Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351233828

Against Nature – Chapter Abstracts Chapter 1. A Transdisciplinary Approach In this short book you will find philosophy – metaphysical and political - economics, critical theory, complexity theory, ecology, sociology, journalism, and much else... Read More about Against nature : the metaphysics of information systems.

Matter and memory and deep learning (2017)
Book Chapter
Kreps, D. (2017). Matter and memory and deep learning. In Diagnoses of Bergson’s Matter and Memory : Developments Towards the Philosophy of Temporal Experience, Sciences of Consciousness, Aesthetics, and Ethics (196-225). Tokyo, Japan: Shoshi Shinsui

Corporations and professionalism : awkward bed-fellows? (2017)
Journal Article
Kreps, D. (2017). Corporations and professionalism : awkward bed-fellows?. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 15(4), 366-369. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2017-0005

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to respond to Burmeister’s paper on Professionalism in information and communication technology. Design/methodology/approach This is a short and simple response to an issue that seemed central to Burmeister’... Read More about Corporations and professionalism : awkward bed-fellows?.

Reassessing the nature of IS (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2016, December). Reassessing the nature of IS. Presented at International Conference on Information Systems, Dublin

This paper draws upon the work of three different philosophers, from America, France and Britain, to argue for (i) the reality of subjectivity, (ii) the nonphysical nature of subjective consciousness that is dependent upon but not determined by the p... Read More about Reassessing the nature of IS.

Matter and memory and deep learning (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2016, November). Matter and memory and deep learning. Presented at Diagnoses of Matter and Memory: Bergson and the Problems of Brain, Time and Memory, Tokyo, Japan

The recent phenomenon of ‘Deep Learning,’ which has given us such science-fiction-like innovations as search tools in photographic applications and the growing reality of self-driving cars, is a new form, and subset, of ‘Machine Learning’ made possib... Read More about Matter and memory and deep learning.

Skeuomorphic reassurance : personhood and dementia (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D., Burmeister, O., & Blaynee, J. (2016, September). Skeuomorphic reassurance : personhood and dementia. Presented at 12th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC12 2016, Proceedings, Salford, UK

This paper introduces the concept of ‘skeomorphic reassurance’ as a guiding principle for human interfaces in technological development and design, particularly for older people and people with dementia (PwD). Skeuomorphs exhibit decorative design el... Read More about Skeuomorphic reassurance : personhood and dementia.

Human choice and computers : an ever more intimate relationship (2016)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., Fletcher, G., & Griffiths, M. (2016). Human choice and computers : an ever more intimate relationship. The future of identity in the information society : 4th IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6, 11.6, 11.7/Fidis International Summer School, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1-7, 2008, revised selected papers / Vashek Matyáš ... [et al.] (eds.), 474, 9-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44805-3

Since 1974, the Human Choice and Computers (HCC) conference series has firmly remained at the cutting edge of innovative thinking about the interface between the social and technology. This introductory chapter to the proceedings of the 12th Human Ch... Read More about Human choice and computers : an ever more intimate relationship.

Collaborative HCI and UX : longitudinal diary studies as a means of uncovering barriers to digital adoption (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Blaynee, J., Kreps, D., Kutar, M., & Griffiths, M. (2016, July). Collaborative HCI and UX : longitudinal diary studies as a means of uncovering barriers to digital adoption. Presented at 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2016 - Fusion!), Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

In this paper, our proposition is that longitudinal research, such as diary studies, can be used to uncover the core needs of those users who are over 65 and experience difficulty with digital interfaces. Through a two year research project, we have... Read More about Collaborative HCI and UX : longitudinal diary studies as a means of uncovering barriers to digital adoption.

Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society (2015)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Kimppa, K. (2015). Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society. Information Technology and People, 28(4), 726-741. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-09-2015-0223

Purpose: In this Editorial introduction the broad phases of web development – the read-only Web 1.0, the read-write Web 2.0, and the collaborative and Internet of Things Web 3.0 – are examined for the theoretical lenses through which they have been... Read More about Theorising web 3.0 : ICTs in a changing society.

KTP and RRI – the perfect match (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D., Blaynee, J., Kutar, M., & Griffiths, M. (2015, September). KTP and RRI – the perfect match. Presented at ETHICOMP 2015, de Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Businesses working with universities are in an optimal position to overcome perceived barriers to the uptake of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) for Business and Industry. This paper sets out case study evidence within a particular framewor... Read More about KTP and RRI – the perfect match.

Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility (2015)
Journal Article
Kreps, D., & Goff, M. (2015). Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility. First Monday, 20(9), 6166-6166. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i9.6166

The focus of much academic work on Web accessibility has been concerned with the lack of implementation of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. There seems, as yet, however, to have been little critical reflection on the Guidelines themselves —... Read More about Code in action : closing the black box of WCAG 2.0, a Latourian reading of web accessibility.

Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Kreps, D. (2015, September). Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme. Presented at Inaugural Conference on Cultural Political Economy, Lancaster University, Lancaster UK

Does Foucault’s concentration upon the micropolitics in society that add up to and constitute (post-national) governmentality undermine and discount, or complement and mirror Gramsci’s concentration on the hegemonic reach of centralised power out int... Read More about Gramsci and Foucault : hegemony in the global episteme.