{"id":1550,"date":"2021-07-03T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2021-09-28T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:01:40","slug":"impacts-of-intelligent-personal-assistants-ipas-on-work-life-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Impacts of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) on Work-life Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color:#32b21b;\" class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-post-date has-text-color\"><time datetime=\"2021-07-03T16:44:00+12:00\">3. July 2021<\/time><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Academics and practitioners suggest that IPAs provide opportunities for workers to develop more effective and efficient work-life practices. However, we do not fully understand how IPA-enabled work-life practices transformation occurs in practice as information systems (IS) research is still at the early stages of developing theoretical and empirical understandings of the use of IPAs in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This study explores (a) how introducing and integrating IPAs into everyday practices change or create new routines and behaviours, and (b) how the altered or new work-life practices affect different aspects of our work lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study adopts a multiple case study design involving four organisations and 30 \u2013 40 knowledge workers and managers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contribution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We expect to offer an explanation of the (a) nature of the interaction between workers and IPAs, (b) effects of this interaction on work-life practices, and (c) strategies for addressing tensions resulting from worker-IPA interactions and the new or altered work-life practices.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1462\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?attachment_id=1462\" class=\"wp-image-1462\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-4-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">TALITA EKANDJO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1385\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?attachment_id=1385\" class=\"wp-image-1385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?p=1741\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">DR YI-TE CHIU<\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1050\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?attachment_id=1050\" class=\"wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage.png 300w, http:\/\/wi2.institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Webp.net-resizeimage-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?p=909\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">DR JOCELYN CRANEFIELD<\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?tag=information-systems\" rel=\"tag\">Information Systems<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge Academics and practitioners suggest that IPAs provide opportunities for workers to develop more effective and efficient work-life practices. However, we do not fully understand how IPA-enabled work-life practices transformation occurs in practice as information systems (IS) research is still at the early stages of developing theoretical and empirical understandings of the use of IPAs &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/?p=1550\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impacts of Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) on Work-life Practices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-systems","tag-information-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wi2.institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}