The School of Computing

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Main research areas

I am an active researcher in the School of Computing engaged in investigating information systems, mobile information systems and technologies and the impact of technology on people, organisations and society.

One of my current projects involves the investigation of mobile phone technology use by different age groups. This study has thrown up some interesting results, and we may have to reconsider gender roles and the use of technology (indeed it looks like ‘age’ differences are more like ‘gender’ differences when we look at technology use).

A further project investigates the use of mobile technologies in professional groups such as Community Healthcare professionals (jointly with Dr Tineke Fitch, Centre for Healthcare Modelling and Informatics, School of Computing). Bringing in new technology really does change peoples’ working practices, not always for the good.

A current and very significant project is investigating mobile convergence from both a technology perspective and use perspective. Some potentially serious conflicts are arising in the actual functioning of the technology (such as the draw upon device resources) and more importantly from the different ways people use mobiles and what they them for.

Topics for PhD supervision

I will consider PhD topics in the following areas (or related areas):

• Information Systems
• Mobile Information Systems,
• Mobile technologies (conflicts, convergence, use, application and implication)
• Mobile/electronic payment systems
• M/e-Government, m/e-commerce
• Impact of technology (particularly mobile) on people, organisations and society

Here is a list of my research output and publications over the 2003-2006 period

Journals:

Fitch C.J. and C. Adams (2006) Managing mobile provision for community healthcare support: Issues and challenges. Business Process Management Journal. Special issue: "Management of Mobile Business Applications and Services - Using PDAs to support medical practice”. Vol. 12, no. 3, pp299-310.

Adams C., (2005) Supporting structures for evolving systems development. International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM), special issue: Adaptive Evolutionary Information, Knowledge, and Management Systems, Vol. 4, No 4, 2005, pp423-442.

Adams C. Katos V. (2005) The ubiquitous mobile and location-aware technologies time bomb: asymptotic informed consent and (en)forced recording obligations. IT Cutter Journal. June 2005, Vol. 18,No. 6. pp 20-27.

Katos V, and Adams C (2005) Modelling Corporate Wireless Security and Privacy. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Volume 14, Issue 3 , September 2005, Pages 307-321. Special issue: The Future is UNWIRED: Organizational and Strategic Perspectives Available on line from: http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0963868705000429

Katos V., King T., Adams C. (2004) Towards a computer based training tool for education in cryptography. UPGRADE, The European Journal for the Informatics Professional. Special issue on cryptography. Vol. V, No. 6, pp30-36. (Available from the web at http://www.upgrade-cepis.org/index.html). Also translated into Spanish in: Katos V., King T., Adams C. (2004)  Novática. , No 172, pp28-32.

Adams C and Avison D (2003) Dangers inherent in the use of techniques: identifying framing influences. Information Technology and People, Vol.16, No. 2, pp203-234.

International Conferences (refereed) 2004-06

Sweisi N. and Adams C. (2006) e-government in developing countries: Libya as a case study. International conference on e-Government, MA, USA. October 2006.

Adams C. (2006) Social inclusion and the shifting role of technology: age the new gender in mobile access? IFIP WG8.2 conference, 12-15th July 2006, Limerick, IE. In Trauth E.M, Howcroft D., Butler T., Fitzgerald B. and DeGross J.I. (2006) Social Inclusion: Societal & Organizational Implications for Information Systems, Springer, ISBN 0387345876.

Adams C. and Fitch C. (2005) Conflicts of convergence: The mobile as a schizophrenic device. Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF 15), Paris, 8-9th December 2005. Details available online at http://www.wireless-world-research.org/meetings/WWRF15/WWRF15-default.html

Adams C. and Katos V (2005) Privacy challenges for Location Aware Technologies. IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems - 2005 (MOBIS2005), Leeds, December 2005. In Krogstie J., Kautz K. and Allen D. (Eds) (2005) Mobile Information Systems II, Springer, ISBN0387295518. pp303-311.

Adams C. (2005) Electronic payment systems and options. 2005 On-line Payment Summit Forum, special theme Sorting out the On-line Payment Bottleneck, Facilitating the Development of E-Commerce. Organised by the "E-Commerce World" Magazine; Financial Technology Center of Foreign TRade and Business University and; China Financial Certificate Center.  22 Oct. 2005. Venue: Beijing Diaoyutai Hotel (Presented, and translated into Chinese by: Xu Yan, Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Available (in Chinese) from: http://www.ebworld.com.cn/zhifuluntan/?uid=

Jiajun Jim Chen and Adams Carl (2005) Consumer acceptance of Mobile Payment: Integrating Trust with the Technology Acceptance Model. INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), November 12-13 2005, New Orleans, LA.

Katos V., Adams, C., King, T. (2005). Virtual e-Learning Game for Cryptographic Teaching (VEGCT). Proceedings of the IFIP TC11 WG 11.8, Fourth World Conference in Information Security Education (WISE4), pp.134-142. May 18-20, Moscow.

Qi-Ying Su and Adams C. (2005) Will B2C commerce developed in one cultural environment be suitable for another culture. A cross-cultural study between amazon.co.uk (UK) and dangdang.com (China). The 7th International Conference  on E-commerce (ICEC 2005), Xian China, August 15-17.
Currently being reviewed for a special issue of the Journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.

Jiajun Jim Chen and Adams C. (2005) Acceptance of mobile payments in South Korea: Zoop mobile payments. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 05). 7th –9th September 2005, University of Wales, NEWI, Wrexham, UK. ISBN: 0-94688-132-4. Available from www.ita05.org

International Conferences (refereed) 2003-4

Adams C, Fitch C (2004) Mobile support for community healthcare: A Janus view. IFIP TC8 Conference on Mobile Information Systems (MOBIS), Oslo, Norway September 15-17, 2004.
Available online from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-22874-8_25. In Lawrence E., Pernici B. and Krogstie J. (2004) Mobile Information Systems, Springer, ISBN 0387228519, pp341-349.

Adams C and Avison DE (2004) Reflection on development techniques using the psychology literature: Over two decades of bias and conceptual blocks. IFIP TC8/WG 8.2 Conference:  Relevant Theory and Informed Practice - looking forward from a 20 year perspective on IS research: Manchester, England, 15 – 17th July 2004. In  Kaplan B., Truex III D.P., Wastell D., Wood-Harper T.A. and DeGross J.I. (2004) Information Systems Research: Relevant Theory and Informed Practice, Kluwer Academic Pub. London. ISBN 1402080948, pp 493-514.

Jiajun J. Chen, Adams C. (2004) Short-range wireless technologies with mobile payment systems. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on e-commerce (ICEC04): Towards a new service landscape. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 25-27 October. In Janssen M., Sol H.G. and Wagenaar R.W. (eds) (2004) ICEC04: Towards a new service landscape, ACM Pub., ISBN 1581139306. pp649656.

Jiajun J. Chen, Adams C. (2004) Investigating Mobile payments systems: Conceptual and wireless technologies aspects. Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation (ECITE 04). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, 11-12th November (edited by Remenyi D.), pp67-72. ISBN: 0-954709667.

Adams C, Millard P and Avison D.E. (2003) Personal trust space in mobile commerce. Paper accepted for the Sixth International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR-6), INFORMAT, Dalla, October 23-26.

Bednar P and Adams C (2003) Evaluation processes: lessons from Bateson’s second order learning. 10th European Conference on Information Technology Evaluation, (ECITE03), the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid on 25-26 September 2003.

Adams C and Millard P (2003) Personal Trust Space and Devices: "Geography will not be History" in the m-commerce future. Hawaii International Conference on Business (HICB 2003), 18th - 21st June, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Published on the Web at http://www.hicbusiness.org/BIZ2003Proceedings/Carl%20Adams.pdf.

Adams C (2003) A confirmation case study to support mixed research techniques within an interpretive approach. European conference on research methods (ECRM 2003), Reading, 20th –21st March 2003.

International Working conference (extended abstracts, refereed) 2003:

Fitch C.J., Adams C and Briggs J.S (2003) The Internet: issues for community care In: Geissbuehler A., Boyer C., Van der Slikke J.W., Arvanitis T.N. (eds.) Technology and Health Care 11 (5), International Journal of Health Care Engineering: Proceedings of MedNet 2003, Eighth World  Congress on the Internet in Medicine IOS Press, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003;
p311- 312 [ISSN 0928-7329].
Presentation and abstract at: http://www.hon.ch/Mednet2003/Friday.html

Jeffcote R, Adams C and Qiying Su (2003) Mobile Telephones: Just another gendered technology? IFIP8.2, OASIS working conference and SIG at the International Conference on Information Systems, Seattle, USA, December 14, 2003.  Proceedings at http://island.isy.vcu.edu/oasis2003
Currently being developed for a journal.

National Conferences (refereed) 2003:

Adams C, Millard P and Moulton M (2003) The Challenge of Developing Personal Trust Space in Future Mobile Computing. Proceedings of the UKAIS 2003 conference, University of Warwick, 9-11 April.

Track Chairs and Conference Organisation

Mini-track Chair and International Programme Committee: The 7th International Conference on E-commerce (ICEC) 2005, Xian China, August 15-17. Mini Track title: Service coordination and integration in ubiquitous computing Mini-track. Details from http://www.icec2005.org/call.htm#track6

Books and Book Chapters

Book Chapters:
Fitch C.J. and Adams C. “Mobile Supported Patient Care: The Dichotomy of National and Local Needs". Accepted for publication the forthcoming book Kushchu, Ibrahim (editor): "Mobile Government: an emerging direction for e-government" Edited by (Expected Publication late 2006/early 2007)

Book:

Adams C. (editor) ‘Mobile Futures’, expected publication late 2006 / early 2007.

National Conferences (refereed) 2004:

Adams C, Noble R and Moulton M (2004) The Single Most approach to critically evaluate e-commerce applications. 9th UKAIS Annual Conference 5th - 6th May 2004, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Others:

Adams C and Avison D (2003) Dangers Inherent in the Use of Techniques: Identifying Framing Influences. Unrefereed

research presentation at University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 12th August 2003. (Presented by David Avison)

Adams C (2003) Position Statement for the IS PhD Supervisor’s Workshop: Theme: Part-time student issues (Preceding the IFIP WG 8.2 and 9.4 Information Systems Perspectives & Challenges in the Context of Globalisation (ISGLOB03) 15-17 June 2003, Athens, Greece).