Publications

The following publications are listed in date order:

  • Adnan Ahmad, Brian Whitworth, FurkhZeshan, Elisa Bertino, Robert Friedman (2017): Extending social networks with delegation. Computers & Security, Volume 70, September 2017, Pages 546-564.
  • Adnan Ahmad and Brian Whitworth, Towards a Bill of Online Rights, Under journal submission.
  • Whitworth, Brian with Ahmad, Adnan (2014): The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building technologies for communities. Aarhus, Denmark, The Interaction Design Foundation. ISBN: 978-87-92964-03-8. Buy on Amazon.
  • Whitworth, B. and Li, J. (2013), Social Feedback Efficiency and Social Bookmark Usage, IADIS International Conference, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2013, 24 – 26 July,Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Enggong, L. and Whitworth, B., Are security and privacy equally important in influencing citizens to use e-consultation?, Int. J. of Electronic Governance, 2013 Vol.6, No.2, pp.152 – 166.
  • Whitworth, Brian and Ahmad, Adnan (2012): Socio-Technical System Design. In: Soegaard, Mads and Dam, RikkeFriis (eds.). “Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction”. Aarhus, Denmark: The Interaction-Design.org Foundation.
  • Whitworth, B. and Sylla, C. (2012), A Social Environment Model of Socio-technical Performance, International Journal for Networking and Virtual Organizations, Vol 11, Number 1, p1-29.
  • A. Ahmad, B. Whitworth and L. Janczewski, (2012) Dynamic Rights Reallocation in Social Networks, Human Factors in Information Security and Assurance (HAISA), in International  Information Security and Privacy Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 4-6, 2012.
  • A. Ahmad, B. Whitworth and L. Janczewski, (2012) More Choices, More Control: Extending Access Control by Meta-Rights Reallocation, International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy in e-Government, e-Systems & Social Networking (eGSSN-12), in IEEE  International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and  Communications (TrustCom 2012), Liverpool, United Kingdom, June 25-27,  2012.
  • Whitworth, B., Janczewski,L. and Ahmad, A., The Logic of Creation in Online Social Networks, Accepted in the 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’12), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 16-19, 2012.
  • Enggong, L. and Whitworth, B. Investigating personal and community factors in e-government: a citizen’s perspective, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2012.
  • Ahmad, A., and Whitworth, B. 2011. Distributed Access Control for Social Networks, In proceedings of International conference of information assurance and security, IAS 2011.
  • Ahmad, A. and Whitworth, B. 2011. Access Control Taxonomy for Social Networks, In proceedings of International conference of information assurance and security, IAS 2011.
  • Friedman, R., Whitworth, B. and Brownstein, M., 2010, Realizing the Power of Extelligence: A New Business Model for Academic Publishing, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 6, p1-13 2010.
  • Whitworth, B., Yang, C., and Jones, B. (2010). Web-based Decision Support for Mobile Phone Selection. The Ninth Wuhan International Conference on E-Business (WHICEB 2010), May 29 – May 30, 2010, Wuhan, China.
  • Whitworth, B. and Sylla, C., 2010, A social environment model of socio-technical performance, 2010, International Academy of Business and Economics, Bangkok Summer Conference, June 4- 6, 2010.
  • Whitworth, B., 2010, The emergence of the physical world from information processing, Quantum Biosystems 2010, 2 (1) 221-249.
  • Whitworth, B., 2010, Simulating space and time, Prespacetime Journal, March 2010, Vol. 1, Issue 2, Page 218-243.
  • Whitworth, B., 2010, The Light of Existence, Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Research Report 390.
  • Whitworth, B. and Liu, T., 2010, Etiquette Based Socio-Technical Design, Ch 13 in Hayes, C. C. and Miller, C. A. (eds) (2010) Human-Computer Etiquette: Cultural Expectations and the Design Implications They Place on Computers and Technology, Taylor & Francis, 2010.
  • Whitworth, Brian; Whitworth, Alex P., 2010, The social environment model: Small heroes and the evolution of human society. First Monday, Vol 15, No 11-1, Nov. ISSN 13960466. Also online here.
  • Whitworth, B., 2010, Exploring the virtual reality conjecture, Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) essay on “Is Reality Digital or Analog?” Fourth Prize. See here for discussion.
  • Whitworth, B. & Friedman, R., 2009, Reinventing academic publishing online Part I: Rigor, Relevance and Practice, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 8, 3 August. See online here.
  • Whitworth, B. & Friedman, R., 2009, Reinventing academic publishing online Part II: A Socio-technical Vision First Monday, Volume 14, Number 9, September. See online here.
  • Patten, Karen P.; Fjermestad, Jerry; and Whitworth, Brian, 2009, How CIOs Use Flexibility to Manage Uncertainty in Dynamic Business Environments, AMCIS Proceedings. Best Practitioner Paper for AMCIS 2009.
  • Whitworth, B. and Liu, T., 2009, Channel email: Evaluating social communication efficiency, IEEE Computer, July, p63-72.
  • Whitworth, B., 2009, Politeness as a Social Software Requirement, Int. J. of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 1(2), p65-84, April-June 2009.
  • Whitworth, B., 2009, The Social Requirements of Technical Systems, Chapter 1 of Whitworth, B., and Moor, A.d. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems. IGI, Hershey, PA, 2009.
  • Whitworth, B., and Moor, A.d. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems. IGI, Hershey, PA, 2009.
  • Whitworth, B. 2009, Some implications of Comparing Human and Computer Processing, HICSS 2008, The 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences, 7-10 Jan, Waikaloa Village, Big Island.
  • 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
  • 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., 2008, Full Access and Review: Applying Socio-technical Practice to Academia ACM SIGITE Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 17-19, pp. 231-236.
  • 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.
  • Whitworth, B., Liu, T., 2008, Online Support for Postgraduate Thesis Advisement: The Research Roadmap Project, Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, 4—7 July. Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Whitworth, B. 2008, Online Support for Postgraduate Learning, Vice Chancellor’s Symposium, 12th November, Albany, Auckland New Zealand.
  • Whitworth, B. 2008, Some implications of Comparing Human and Computer Processing, HICSS 2008, The 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences, 7-10 Jan, Waikaloa Village, Big Island.
  • Sylla, C., Whitworth, B. and Mahinda, E., 2008, A hybrid method for the multi-criteria evaluation of network technologies, ICT Africa Council, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – February 13-15.
  • Whitworth, B. 2007, A Research Publishing Checklist For New Authors, ACIS 2007 – 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 5-7 Dec 2007, Toowoomba.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 ISBN: 1-59140-792-3 Publisher: Information Science Reference
  • 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
  • Whitworth, B., 2006, Social-technical Systems, in Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction, Edited Claude Ghaoui, Idea Group Reference, Hershey. p533-541
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Whitworth, B., 2005, Polite Computing, October, Behaviour & Information Technology. vol. 24, no. 5, September, p353 – 363.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Also online here.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Whitworth, B. & Whitworth, E., 2004, Spam and the Social-Technical Gap, IEEE Computer, October, vol. 37, no. 10, p38-45.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Whitworth, B., & Zaic, M. (2003). The WOSP Model: Balanced Information System Design And Evaluation, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 12, p258-282.
  • Whitworth, B., & deMoor, A. (2003). Legitimate by design: Towards trusted socio-technical systems. Behaviour & Information Technology, Vol 22, No 1, p31-51.
  • Whitworth, B., & McQueen, R. J. (2003). Voting before discussing: Electronic voting as social interaction. Group Facilitation, Spring 3(1), p1-16.
  • 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, The Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute, Fox School of Business & Management, Temple University.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Whitworth, B., & Bieber, M. 2002. Legitimate Navigation Links. Poster presented at ACM Hypertext 2002, Demonstrations and Posters, University of Maryland.
  • 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.
  • Whitworth, B., Gallupe, R. B. and McQueen R., 2001, Generating agreement in computer-mediated groups, Small Group Research, 32:5, p625-665.
  • 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): p431-456
  • 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.
  • Whitworth, B., Bartel Van De Walle and Murray Turoff, 2000, Beyond Rational Decision Making, Group Decision and Negotiation 2000, Glasgow, Scotland, p1-13.
  • 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.
  • 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. p22-33.
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Whitworth, B. and Plimmer, B., 1997, Towards a general taxonomy of communication settings, National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications 10th Annual Conference, Nelson July.
  • 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.
  • 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. 
  • Whitworth, B., 1996, Group cohesion in computer mediated groups, Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems and Management (PRIISM) 1996 International Conference Proceedings, p225-235.
  • Whitworth, B., 1995, The social psychology of distributed electronic task groups, New Zealand Journal of Computing, 6, Number 1A, August, p171-180.
  • Whitworth, B., Major, 1985, Leadership – The forgotten dimension, The New Zealand Army Journal, 1, Dec, p15-28.

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