GTIS focuses on human-centered technology design and on understanding the individual, group and environmental factors that leverage or limit technology diffusion, acceptance, adoption, use and assimilation in a healthy digital society.

Research team: GTIS – Technology, Information, and Society
Accredited: Brazilian Research Council (CNPq)
Established: November 2008
Field: Management Information Systems and Human-Computer Interaction
Institution: Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa, PB, Brazil

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GTIS is a research team concerned with information and communication technologies (ICTs) as tools for a better human society. We are particularly interested in topics such as ICT diffusion, individual capabilities, group cohesiveness, social awareness, and in the balance between methodological rigor and applied relevance for cumulative research. We develop research primarily in the fields of software engineering, human-computer interaction, management, and organization studies, with inputs from psychology, computer science, information science, political science, and sociology. Our research follows two approaches: one of the approaches involves basic research, that is, we develop conceptual frameworks from scratch and the methods to solve their first reported empirical cases; and the other approach involves shedding new light on extant cases pertaining to other research traditions. We are not oriented towards publishing many papers per year – but seminal papers whenever possible. The same applies to our participation in Brazilian and international conferences. Our performance is measured by quality, not quantity. We also focus on working together with other social actors, so that we can effectively contribute in practice to individuals, families, communities, organizations, and society. This is leveraged by the very papers that we publish in scientific outlets, reports that we develop on demand, interviews in mass media, and speeches to special interest groups. At any time, GTIS also has a few individuals devoted to supervising and auditing the fulfillment of our mission (ICT aesthetics, theory, and practice).