Congratulations to Dr. Karim Feroz, assistant professor of IT at MGA, whose work was recently published in the Australasian Journal of Information Systems. Titled, “'Use' as a Conscious Thought: Towards a Theory of 'Use' in Autonomous Things," the article was co-written with Gohar Khan of the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University.
"The way users perceive and use information systems artefacts has been mainly studied from the notion of behavioral beliefs, deliberate cognitive efforts, and physical actions performed by human actors to produce certain outcomes. The next generation of information systems, however, can sense, respond, and adapt to environments without necessitating similar cognitive efforts, physical contact, or explicit instructions to operate. Therefore, by leveraging theories of consciousness and technology use, this research aims to advance an alternative understanding of the "use" associated with the next generation of IS artefacts that do not require deliberate cognitive efforts, physical manipulation, or explicit instructions to yield outcomes."
