Kieran Mathieson - Research
Kieran Mathieson
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Oakland University
Research
Table of Contents
Current Research: Ethics Decision Support
Current Research: Other Topics
Publication List
Current Research:
Ethics Decision Support
Dioptra (http://dioptra.org)
helps teams make difficult ethical decisions. It doesn't do any ethical
"thinking." Computers aren't smart enough for that. Instead, it helps teams
make more rational and defensible choices, avoiding (to some extent)
emotional meltdowns and dysfunctional group behavior.
Dioptra is based on four principles:
Problem structuring
Group support
Workflow
Advice
Problem structuring
Enough structure to help people focus their attention.
Not too much – don’t overly constrain the decision process.
Group support
One decision state for the entire team.
Coordination options - Same time and place, same time but
different place, ...
Reduce dysfunctional behavior, e.g., anonymity.
Workflow
"Workflow" is about how tasks are completed: who does them, what the
steps are, what order they are done in, how they are tracked, how they
are synchronized, etc.
Advice
Advice on ethics, decision making, group work, using Dioptra,
...
Available at the user’s discretion.
This gives you a taste, but there is a lot more to Dioptra. Take a
look at http://dioptra.org
for more information.
I'm always open to joint research. For instance, I'm working with
people in philosophy, education, engineering, and business on how
Dioptra can be applied in those areas. A typical paper will take an
ethics case in, say, medical research or K-12 educational
administration, and show how a team might use Dioptra to address it.
If you're interested in talking about joint research, or testing
Dioptra in your organization, drop
me a line.
Current Research: Other
Topics
I'm curious about many aspects of life. Here are some things floating
around in my head. Some I've written papers about (see the
publication list), some I'm writing about
right now, and others are things I want to study someday.
Using narrative in ethical development, particularly for
individuals in communities.
Using narrative for strategic planning in non-profit
organizations.
Managing IT in not-for-profit organizations.
Supporting university communities for interdisciplinary
research.
Helping students develop their personal philosophies (see
Teaching for sample work).
If you're interested in talking about joint research on these or
other topics, drop me a line.
Publication List
There may be some things missing.
Kieran Mathieson, "Making Ethics Easier," forthcoming in IEEE
Computer.
Gene Fliedner and Kieran Mathieson, "Learning Lean: A Survey of
Industry Lean Needs," forthcoming in the Journal of Education for
Business.
Kieran Mathieson, "Moral Development," keynote presentation at the 2008 Summer Institute on Teaching Excellence,
Purdue University Calumet, June, 2008.
Kieran Mathieson and Elysa Koppelman-White, "Creativity and
Critical Thinking in Ethics: A Computer Tool for Helping Groups Make
Ethical Decisions," presented at the OU/U Windsor Conference on
Teaching and Learning, May, 2008.
Kieran Mathieson and Catherine Tyler, "'We Don't Need No Stinking
Ethics': The Struggle Continues," Journal of College and
Character, 9 (4), 2008, 1-12.
Kieran Mathieson, "Using Information Technology Volunteers: A
Conceptual Framework," International Journal of Volunteer
Administration, 24 (6), 2007, 35-46.
Kieran Mathieson, "Modeling Web Applications," AJBR,
3 (1), 2007, 61-72.
Kieran Mathieson, "Dioptra: An Ethics Decision Support System,"
Proceedings of the American Conference on Information Systems,
Keystone, Colorado, 2007.
Kieran Mathieson, "Moral Maturity and Cognition," invited
presentation at the 2007 Summer Institute on Teaching Excellence,
Purdue University Calumet, June, 2007.
Kieran Mathieson, "Sneaking a Philosophical Camel into a Business
Tent: Labeling the Summum Bonum for Business Students," Journal of College and Character,
8 (4), 2007, 1-12.
Kieran Mathieson, "Towards a Design Science of Ethical Decision
Support," Journal of Business Ethics, 76 (3), 2007, 269-292.
Kieran Mathieson, "Moral Maturity and Cognition," invited
presentation at the 2006 Summer Institute on Teaching Excellence,
Purdue University Calumet, June 2, 2006.
Kieran Mathieson, "Using Volunteers for IT Work: Research Questions,"
Proceedings of the 2006 SIGMIS CPR Conference, Pomona, California,
230-235.
Kieran Mathieson, "Factors Influencing Intentions to Maintain Web Content in Voluntary
Organizations," Proceedings of the 2006 SIGMIS CPR Conference,
Pomona, California, 169-171.
Gene Fliedner, Peg Pennington, Helen Zak and Kieran Mathieson,
"Lean Curriculum Content: A Plant Manager Pilot Survey", Midwest
Decision Sciences Institute, Indianapolis, March 23-25, 2006.
Kieran Mathieson, "Factors predicting intention to enroll in a
philosophy of
life course," Journal of Academic Ethics, 2 (4), 2005,
367 - 385.
Kieran Mathieson and David Doane, "Using Fine-Grained Likert
Scales in Web Surveys", Alliance Journal of
Business Research, 1 (1), April 2005, 27-34
Kieran Mathieson, "Designing a Moral Dilemma Support System," in
Freeman, L., and Peace, A. Graham, Information Ethics: Privacy
and Intellectual Property, Information Science Publishing, 2005,
pp. 38-51.
Kieran Mathieson, "A Practical Approach to Object-Relational
Mapping in PHP," PHPBuilder,
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/mathieson20040309.php3, 2004
Kieran Mathieson and Mukesh Bhargava, "Do Our Students Want Values
Programs?" Journal of College and Character, V. 2, 2003.
Kieran Mathieson, "Elements of Moral Maturity," Journal of
College and Character, V. 2, 2003.
Kieran Mathieson, "The Corporate Model at Oakland University,"
Oakland Journal, Spring, 2003.
Kieran Mathieson, "An Information Environment for Exploring
Personal Values," presentation, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, California, March, 2002.
Kieran Mathieson, and Cynthia E. Miree, "Illuminating the
Invisible: IT and Self-Discovery in the Workplace," in Giacalone, Robert, and Jurkewiecz, Carole (eds.), The Handbook of
Workplace Spirituality, 2002, 461-474.
Kieran Mathieson, "Using Information Technology to Explore Moral
Imagination," Proceedings of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute
conference, April, 2001.
Kieran Mathieson and Terence Ryan, "A Broader View of Relevance,"
Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 6,
March 2001.
Donald Fedor, Walter Davis, John Maslyn, and Kieran Mathieson,
"Performance Improvement Efforts in Response to Negative Feedback:
The Roles of Source Power and Recipient Self-Esteem," Journal of
Management, 27 (1), 2001
Wynne Chin, Kieran Mathieson and Eileen Peacock, "Extending the
Technology Acceptance Model: The Influence of Perceived User
Resources," DATA BASE, Summer 2001, v. 32, 86-112.
David P. Doane, Ronald L. Tracy, and Kieran Mathieson (2000),
"Visualizing a Random Process," 2000 Proceedings of the Section on
Statistical Education, American Statistical Association, August,
2000.
David Doane, Kieran Mathieson and Ronald Tracy, Visual
Statistics 2.0 (McGraw-Hill, 2000).
Kieran Mathieson and James Kiely, "Site Usability and
Database-Enabled Web Sites: Separating Navigation from Form Data,"
WebProfession, 2 (2), June 1999.
Mathieson, Kieran, Mukesh Bhargava and Mohan Tanniru, "Web-Based
Consumer Decision Tools: Motivations and Constraints," Electronic
Markets, Volume 9, Number 4, November 1999.
Dan Braunstein and Kieran Mathieson, "Patterns of Change in
Perceptions of Information Systems: A Longitudinal Case Study," AIS,
1999.
Mathieson, Kieran, "A
Ménage à Trois in a Manufactured Home: Improving Decisions and
Building Relationships," presented at the First Oakland
University Conference on Information Technology, September, 1998.
Mathieson, Kieran, and Mark Keil, "Beyond the Interface: Ease
of Use and Task/Technology Fit," Information
and Management, 34, 4, 1998, 221-230.
Mathieson, Kieran, "The
Product Inference Lens: A Technique for Designing Marketing Web Sites,"
WebProfession, 1
(4), March 1998.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Choosing
in the Fourth Dimension: Web Support for Long Purchase Decisions,"
WebProfession, 1
(5), April 1998.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Building Effective Marketing Web Sites:
The Product Inference Lens," EDI Forum: The
Journal of Electronic Commerce, 1998.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Building
Relationships Between Producers, Retailers and Consumers,"
WebProfession,
1 (6), May 1998.
Mathieson, Kieran, and Terence Ryan, "Users'
Evaluations of Packages: Demonstrations Versus Hands-On Use"
Electronic
Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 1997
David Doane, Kieran Mathieson, and Ronald Tracy, (1997),
"Visualizing Univariate and Bivariate Data", 1997
Proceedings, Midwest Decision Sciences Institute, 243-247.
David Doane, Kieran Mathieson and Ronald Tracy, Visual Statistics,
Part I (Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1997).
Doane, David P., Mathieson, Kieran D., and Tracy, Ronald L.,
"Teaching Statistics Visually", American Statistical
Association, 1996.
Tracy, Ronald L., Doane, David P., and Mathieson, Kieran D. ,
"Visualizing A Sample Distribution", American Statistical
Association, 1996.
Mathieson, Kieran, and Al Lederer, "A Decision Support System
for Student Transfer Advising," Journal of Information System
Education, Fall 1995, 96-101.
Toland, Tim, and Kieran Mathieson, "Improving Customer Service
at Allnet Communications: Developing A Mission Critical Client/Server
GUI System," Journal of End User Computing, 7(3), 1995,
29-33.
Keller, Karl, and Kieran Mathieson, "Client/Server at Chrysler:
Adding to the Solution Set," Journal of End User Computing,
7(3), 1995, 29-33.
Mathieson, Kieran, David Doane and Ronald Tracy, "A Program
for Visualizing Comparisons Between Two Normal Distributions," Journal
of Statistics Education, 3 (1), 1995.
Dreyer, Brent, and Ensuring Consistency in the Estimation of
Vacancy Rates," The Appraisal Journal, 63 (2), 1995,
209-212.
Tracy, Ronald L., Doane, David P., and Mathieson, Kieran D.,
"Visualizing Simple Regression", American Statistical
Association, 1995.
Mathieson, Kieran, and Terence Ryan, "The Effect of
Definitional Variations on Information System Evaluations," Data
Base, 25 (2), 1994, 37-48.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Managing Information Technology in a
University: Three Principles to Guide Organisational Design," School
Organisation, 12 (2), 1994, 169-179.
Doane, David, Kieran Mathieson, and Ronald Tracy, "Visualizing
Time Series Data," American Statistical Association, 1994.
Doane, David, Kieran Mathieson, and Ronald Tracy, "Visualizing
Power and Type I and II Error," American Statistical
Association,1994.
Tracy, Ronald, Kieran Mathieson, and David Doane, "Visualizing
and Describing the Shape of Distributions," American Statistical
Association, 1994.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Reducing Bias in Users' Evaluations of
Information Systems," Information and Management, 25,
1993, 165-171.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Variations in Users' Definitions of an
Information System," Information and Management, 24, 1993,
227-234.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Effective User Documentation: Focusing on
Tasks Instead of Systems," Journal of Systems Management, 44
(1993), 25-27.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Form-Based Software," Marketing Research,
5 (1993), 46.
Mathieson, Kieran, and Brent Dreyer, "Improving the Effectiveness
and Efficiency of the Appraisal Review: An Information Systems
Approach," The Appraisal Journal, 61 (1993), 414-418.
Mathieson, Kieran, and T. J. Wharton, "Are Information Systems
a Barrier to Total Quality Management?," Journal of Systems
Management, 44 (9), 1993, 34-38.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Belief Formation and System Success: When Do
Responses to Satisfaction Instruments Reflect System Attributes?,"
Proceedings of the SIGCPR Conference, 1993.
Mathieson, Kieran, "Predicting User Intentions: Comparing the
Technology Acceptance Model with the Theory of Planned Behavior,"
Information Systems Research, 2 (3), 1991, 173-191.
Jacobs, F. Robert, Kieran Mathieson, John F. Muth, and Terence M.
Hancock, "A Rule-Based System to Generate NC Programs from CAD
Exchange Files," Computers and Industrial Engineering, 20
(2), 1991, 167-176.
Mathieson, K., and T. Ryan, "A Goal Driven Cognitive Model of the
System Evaluation Process," Proceedings of the 5th International
Conference on Information Systems," New York, 1991, 177-186.
Kieran Mathieson, "Prototyping Expert Systems," AI Applications in
Natural Resource Management, 2 (2-3), 1988, 3-11.
Kieran Mathieson, "Measuring User Satisfaction," Interfaces, 16 (6),
1986, 73-76.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
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