Recent Work

Polite Computing
Whitworth , B. & Liu, T., 2008, Politeness as a Social Computing Requirement, Chapter XXIV, p419-436, in Luppicini, R. (Ed), 2008, Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications, Information Science Reference, Hershey PA

----- Peter Hawes, 2008, A polite chat with Dr Brian, Off Campus, vol 13, issue 2, June, p20-21

------ Ulrika Hedquist 14 May, 2008 Academic argues software needs to learn manners: Politeness' is a critical success factor for software, Computerworld link:http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/A4B9BCCD1B0884FACC2574480019CA20

The channel email response to spam:
Whitworth, B. and Liu, T., 2009, Channel email: Evaluating social communication efficiency (under submission)

A short summary of some aspects of socio-technical theory:
Whitworth, B., 2009, A brief introduction to socio-technical systems, forthcoming, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second ed, Ed Claude Ghaoui, Hershey: Idea Group Publishing

Some ideas on academic publishing:
B. Whitworth and R. Friedman, 2008, The Challenge of Modern Academic Knowledge Exchange SIGITE Newsletter, vol. 5 no. 2, pp. 4-10
Whitworth, B. & Friedman, R., Reinventing Academic Publishing Online (under submission)
Whitworth, B. & Friedman, R., Full Access and Review: Applying Socio-technical Practice to Academia (under submission)

A model of social synergy for online communities:
Whitworth, B,. 2008, A Social Environment Model of Socio-technical Performance, (under submission)

An information systems approach to modern physics:
Whitworth, B., 2007, The physical world as a virtual reality ..arXiv version2 ...Journal submission...
Jan 21 2008 Computerworld Interview (downloads pdf)....
Link to ComputerWorld interview text only ...
Jan 25 2008 Earthfiles Interview
Chronicle of Higher Education podcast http://chronicle.com/media/audio/v54/i30/whitworth/ (from http://chronicle.com/multimedia/podcasts.htm )

Journal Publications

  1. Whitworth, B., Banuls, V., Sylla, C., Mahinda, E., 2008, Expanding the Criteria for Evaluating Socio-Technical Software, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A, Volume 38, Issue 4, July p777 - 790

  2. Whitworth, B., Fjermestad, J., Mahinda, E., 2006, The Web of System Performance: A multi-goal model of information system performance, Communications of the ACM, May, Vol 49, No 5, p93-99.

  3. Whitworth, B., 2005, Polite Computing, October, Behaviour & Information Technology. vol. 24, no. 5, September, 353 – 363 Presentation

  4. Whitworth, B.& Whitworth, E., 2004, Spam and the Social-Technical Gap, IEEE Computer, October, vol. 37, no. 10, 38-45.

  5. Whitworth, B., & Zaic, M. (2003). The WOSP Model: Balanced Information System Design And Evaluation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 12, 258-282. Journal.... Editors comment:
  6. Whitworth, B., & deMoor, A. (2003). Legitimate by design: Towards trusted virtual community environments. Behaviour & Information Technology, 22:1, p31-51. Journal

  7. Whitworth, B., & McQueen, R. J. (2003). Voting before discussing: Electronic voting as social interaction. Group Facilitation, Spring 3(1), p1-16. Journal See also BNET version http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3954/is_200304/ai_n9179608/pg_1

  8. Whitworth, B., Gallupe, R. B. and McQueen R., 2001, Generating agreement in computer-mediated groups, Small Group Research, 32:5, p625-665 Journal

  9. Whitworth, B., Gallupe, R. B. and McQueen R., 2000, A cognitive three-process model of computer-mediated group interaction, Group Decision and Negotiation 9(5):431-456 Journal Also

  10. Whitworth, B. and Felton, R. (1999). Measuring disagreement in groups facing limited choice problems,THE DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems 30:3 & 4, pp. 22-33. Journal :  

  11. Whitworth, B., 1995, The social psychology of distributed electronic task groups, New Zealand Journal of Computing, 6, Number 1A, August, p171-180.

  12. Whitworth, B., Major, 1985, Leadership - The forgotten dimension, The New Zealand Army Journal, 1, Dec, p15-28

Book Sections

  1. Whitworth, B., Ryu, H., 2009, A Comparison of Human and Computer Information Processing (forthcoming in Pagani, M., 2009, Encyclopedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking, 2nd Edition)

  2. Whitworth , B. & Liu, T., 2008, Politeness as a Social Computing Requirement, Chapter XXIV, p419-436, in Luppicini, R. (Ed), 2008, Handbook of Conversation Design for Instructional Applications, Information Science Reference, Hershey PA

  3. Whitworth, B., 2006, Measuring Disagreement, Chapter XIX, in Handbook of Research on Electronic Surveys and Measurements, Edited by: Rodney A. Reynolds, Pepperdine University; Robert Woods, Spring Arbor University; Jason D. Baker, Regent University, Idea Group Reference (an imprint of Idea Group Inc.) ISBN: 1-59140-792-3 Publisher: Information Science Reference
  4. Whitworth, B., Aldo de Moor, A. and Liu, T., 2006, Towards a Theory of Online Social Rights, in R. Meersman, Z. Tari, P. Herrero et al. (Eds.): OTM Workshops 2006, LNCS 4277, pp. 247 – 256, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

  5. Whitworth, B., 2006, Social-technical Systems, in Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, Edited Claude Ghaoui, Idea Group Reference, Hershey. p533-541

  6. Whitworth, B., 2006, Spam as a symptom of electronic communication technologies that ignore social requirements, in Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, Edited Claude Ghaoui, Idea Group Reference, Hershey, p559-566.

  7. Turoff, M., Hiltz, S.R., Fjermestad, J., Bieber, M. & Whitworth, B., 2002, Computer-Mediated Communications for Group Support: Past and Future, Chapter 13 in Human Computer Interaction in the New Millenium, John Carrol (Ed), ACM Press New York, p279-295

Articles

Conferences

2008

Whitworth, B. 2008, Some implications of Comparing Human and Computer Processing (HICSS 2008, The 41 st Annual Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences, 7-10 Jan, Waikaloa Village, Big Island)

2007

Whitworth, B. 2007, A Research Publishing Checklist For New Authors , ACIS 2007 - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 5-7 Dec 2007, ToowoombaThe Research Checklist

Whitworth, B. 2007, Combining Rigor and Relevance: The Open Electronic Archive Option, ACIS 2007 - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 5-7 Dec 2007, Toowoomba.

Whitworth, B. 2007, A Research Publishing Checklist, Workshop on PhD Research Paper Publishing & Presenting, for The Sixth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB 2007) , Wuhan, P.R. China, May 26-27 Paper..... Publication Slides ....Presentation Slides

2006

  1. Whitworth, B., Aldo de Moor, A. and Liu, T., 2006, Towards a Theory of Online Social Rights, International Workshop on Community Informatics (COMINF'06) Nov 2 - Nov 3, Montpellier, France

  2. Whitworth, B., Cheickna, S., and Whitworth, E., 2006, Assessing emergent business IT using the web of system performance, The Fifth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business, Wuhan, P.R. China, May 27-28, p1-15. Paper

  3. Mahinda, E and Whitworth, B., 2006, Using The WOSP Model To Improve End-User Productivity Of Information Systems, International Conference on Business IT (BIZIT 2006): Collaborating with ICT Innovations for Business Survival, August 8 – 10, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Paper.... Presentation

  4. Hare, K., Whitworth, B., Deek, F. and Norris, T., 2006, A New Approach to Clinical IT Resistance: The Need for Information Technology Confidentially and Mobility, Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ 2006), August 9-11, Auckland, New Zealand. Paper

2005

  1. Whitworth, B., Banuls, V., Cheickna, S., Mahinda, E., 2005, An Expanded View of Technology Acceptance, Journal of AIS Sponsored Theory Development Workshop, Las Vegas, Dec 14th , p1-19

  2. Soltis, J., Patel, P. & Whitworth, B., 2005, Designing a New Employee Orientation (NEO) system, Special Interest Group on University and College Computer Services (SIGUCCS) Fall Conference in Monterey, California, Technical Program Track: Training and Documentation, p349-352

  3. Mahinda, E. & Whitworth, B., 2005, The Web of System Performance: Extending the TAM Model, Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, Omaha, Nebraska, USA , p367-374.

  4. Patten, K., Whitworth, B., Fjermestad, J., Mahinda, E., 2005, Leading IT Flexibility: Anticipation, Agility and Adaptability, Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 11-14, Omaha, Nebraska, USA , p2787-2792 .

  5. Foreman, B. & Whitworth, B., 2005, Information Disclosure and the Online Customer Relationship, Quality, Values and Choice Workshop, Computer Human Interaction 2005, Portland, Oregon, p1-7. http://brianwhitworth.com/foreman2005.doc

  6. Hare, K., Whitworth, B. and Jekelis, A., 2005, How Do We Get The Clinical Side Of Healthcare On Par With The Administrative Side Of Healthcare With Respect To Information Technology Alignment? Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, Oct. 19-22, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.

2004

  1. Whitworth, B. and Whitworth, E., 2004, Spam and the socio-technical divide, 7th International Conference on Work with Computing Systems WWCS 2004, 29 June – 3 July, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, p1-6.

  2. Mahinda, E. and Whitworth, B. 2004, Evaluating Flexibility and Reliability in Emergency Response Information Systems, International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Tilburg, The Netherlands, p 1- 6.

2003

  1. Whitworth, B. 2003, Legitimacy and cyber-society: Why cyber-deviance is more than just anti-normative behavior, Research Workshop on “Cyberdeviance” in the Digital Economy: Ethical, Legal, and Economic Implications”, March 6, 2003, The Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute (eBI), Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University. (editor review, 8 pages).

2002-

  1. Whitworth, B. & de Moor, A. 2002. Legitimate by design: Towards trusted virtual community environments. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference for the System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii. Nominated by Organizational Systems and Technology –Community Informatics mini-track for best paper, p1-11 .

  2. Whitworth, B., 2002, Polite computing: Software that respects the user, Etiquette for human computer work, AAAI Fall Symposia Series, November 15-1, North Falmouth, Ma, p1-7.

  3. Whitworth, B., & Bieber, M. 2002. Legitimate Navigation Links. Poster presented at ACM Hypertext 2002, Demonstrations and Posters, University of Maryland. (reviewed).

  4. Jones, Q., & Whitworth, B. 2002. Initial thoughts on a different kind of space: Measuring architectures and discourse coherence. Paper presented at the Computer Human Interaction Discourse Architectures Workshop, Minneapolis, Minnesota, p1-7.

  5. Van de Walle, B. Brian Whitworth and Murray Turoff, Surviving arrow’s paradox: Preference and indifference in disagreeing groups, Group Decision and Negotiation 2000, Glasgow, Scotland , p1-20.

  6. Whitworth, B., Bartel Van De Walle and Murray Turoff, 2000, Beyond Rational Decision Making, Group Decision and Negotiation 2000, Glasgow, Scotland, p1-13 http://brianwhitworth.com/beyondrationality.rtf.

  7. Whitworth, B., 2000, The implications of a cognitive three process (C3P) model for computer-mediated groups, SSGRR 2000, L'Aquila, July 31 - August 6, International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science and Education on the Internet, ISBN ISBN 88-85280-52-8, p1-13.

  8. Whitworth, B. and McQueen, R. J., 1999, Voting before discussing: Computer voting as social communication, Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 1, p351-359 Nominated by Collaboration Technology – Theory and Methodology mini-track for best paper. (17 pages).

  9. Whitworth, B., and Felton, R., 1998, Measuring disagreement in groups facing limited choice problems, Proceedings of the 31st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1, p351-359 Nominated by Collaboration Technology – Theory and Methodology mini-track for best paper. (9 pages).

  10. Whitworth, B. and Plimmer, B., 1997, Towards a general taxonomy of communication settings, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications 10th Annual Conference, Nelson July. (17 pages).

  11. Whitworth, B. and Gallupe, R. B. 1997, Generating agreement in dispersed, computer-mediated groups: An enhanced theoretical framework, Administrative Sciences of Canada Conference Proceedings – Information Systems, 18(4), p54-66.

  12. Whitworth, B., 1996, Using normative influence to generate agreement in computer mediated groups operating across lean networks, The 1996 Information Systems Conference of New Zealand Doctoral Consortium. (editor review).

  13. Whitworth, B., 1996, Group cohesion in computer mediated groups, Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM) 1996 International Conference Proceedings, p225-235.

    Talks

    2008