HICSS-59: Call for Papers Minitrack "Human Flourishing in the Digital Age"

[Dina Koutsikouri]

Call for Papers – Minitrack: "Human Flourishing in the Digital Age"<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-59/organizational-systems-and-technology/#human-flourishing-in-the-digital-age-minitrack>
HICSS-59 - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) - January 6-9, 2026 - Hyatt Regency Maui
Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/


This minitrack provides a forum to explore, present, and discuss a broad range of issues related to flourishing in digitally enabled environments. Flourishing is a multidimensional concept that extends beyond individual well-being. It involves the optimal and continuing development of human potential while acknowledging the interconnectedness of human lives with non-human entities and ecosystems. To promote flourishing, we must consider the diverse conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive, including health, economic stability, community cohesion, financial well-being, and political systems—all of which are increasingly shaped by digitalization. Several critical questions arise when examining human flourishing in contemporary organizations and society: What do humans and non-humans need to flourish in life? How does digital technology impact individual, collective, and planetary flourishing? How can flourishing be promoted through digital innovation? How can organizations embed flourishing—beyond human-centric goals—into their digital transformation strategies? How do people utilize digital technologies to enable flourishing across species, systems, and communities? In what ways does digital technology enhance flourishing, and how does it detract from it
Understanding flourishing requires a shift from traditional anthropocentric views to an approach that recognizes the interdependence of all living and non-living systems. As digital technologies become central to human and ecological futures, determining their role in fostering both individual and collective flourishing becomes a critical challenge.
This minitrack seeks to advance new insights and perspectives on these topics. By including a post-anthropocentric perspective, we encourage scholars to explore how digital technologies can create opportunities for mutual flourishing—bridging the well-being of humans, non-humans, and the environments we inhabit. We aim to continue our minitrack’s vision of fostering research agendas on well-being and flourishing, offering hope for a better future shaped by digital technology.
We welcome papers that aim to advance our understanding of flourishing in digital environments across various levels (e.g., individual, group, organizational, societal) and from diverse perspectives (e.g., cultural, ethical, design, ecological). We encourage not only empirical research but also conceptual, analytical, and theoretical contributions that expand our understanding of flourishing in the digital age. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Novel approaches to digitally innovating for human flourishing, well-being and human potential
  *   Management practices and their impact on human flourishing
  *   Consequences of digital technology on human flourishing
  *   The socio-technical nature of human flourishing
  *   Use of digital technologies for human flourishing
  *   Ethical and moral dimensions of human flourishing
  *   The role of wisdom, emotions, dignity and desires
  *   Environmental sustainability and flourishing
  *   Post-anthropocentric perspectives on human flourishing

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Lena Hylving (Primary Contact)
University of Oslo
lenaandr at ifi.uio.no

Dina Koutsikouri
University of Gothenburg
Dina.koutsikouri at gu.se

Tina Blegind Jensen
Copenhagen Business School
tbj at digi.cbs.dk

We look forward to your submissions!

Dina Koutsikouri, PhD
Associate Professor in Information Systems
Division of Informatics
Department of Applied IT
University of Gothenburg
Forskningsgången 6, 417 56 Gothenburg, Sweden
Mobile: +46 (0)7239 71253
www.ait.gu.se<http://www.ait.gu.se>
https://scdi.se/researchers/dina-koutsikouri/

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