Informing Research: Engaging with Futures

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    On Serendipity in Digital Futures
    (2024-01-03) Hylving, Lena; Koutsikouri, Dina; Kautz, Karlheinz
    This paper draws attention to and speculates about the concept of serendipity in digital futures. By using a science fiction movie - I’m Your Man – we are looking into a future where humans might date humanoid robots and explore the plasticity of the concept of serendipity in an attempt to make sense of its moving from an originally genuine human concept to a concept comprising its digital imitation, digital serendipity. Going beyond a dystopian critique of digital serendipity as our contribution, we argue for, and present, a way to fathom serendipity in the world we (will) live in. A future that critically assesses and balances digital serendipity between on one hand demonizing the digital, imposing immense restrictions on human creativity, and negatively impacting human flourishing, and on the other side exalting and celebrating the digital for providing unexpected and unlimited possibilities for prospering.
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    Crafting Future Scenarios with the Help of AI: Potentials of a Hybrid Delphi Expert Panel
    (2024-01-03) Mueller, Roland M.; Thoring, Katja; Klöckner, Hermann W.; Larsen, Kai
    This paper examines the potential of ChatGPT to enhance the established Delphi method by providing additional AI-infused expertise. We investigated several aspects of the Delphi method independently: the integration of abstract AI-infused expertise perspectives, the generation of an AI “clone” (digital twin) of a human expert, the rating of scenarios through AI, and the capability of AI to iterate future scenarios and to provide qualitative feedback. The findings suggest that AI systems can augment a Delphi panel by providing new perspectives but cannot replace individual human experts and their respective expertise. The insights shall inform other researchers who want to conduct hybrid Delphi studies with AI-infused expertise. In that sense, with this paper, we aim to lay the foundation for a hybrid Delphi study method and suggest actionable recommendations.
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    Speculation: Forms and Functions
    (2024-01-03) Hovorka, Dirk; Mueller, Benjamin
    Speculation and imagination are fundamental to scientific research. Both as activities and products they take many forms and function in multiple ways. While speculation which obtains evidentiary support is well established as a source of theoretical contribution, other forms of speculation open pathways for transformation and critique. Digital geographies are proposed as an alternative form of speculation that enables researchers to foray into inhabited futures enabling critique of present research activities which ae implicated in possible futures. Quality criteria are offered to enable legitimization of speculative approaches in IS research.
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    Introduction to the Minitrack on Informing Research: Engaging with Futures
    (2024-01-03) Hovorka, Dirk; Mueller, Benjamin