Amir Haj-Bolouri

Research interest

Amir Haj-Bolouri holds a PhD in Informatics with a specialization in Work-integrated Learning. Currently, Haj-Bolouri is a full Professor of Informatics with a specialization in Work-integrated Learning at University West, Sweden, and a Docent of Information Systems with a specialization in Design Science. 

Professor Haj-Bolouri’s research covers areas and topics such as Information Systems, Virtual Reality, Work-integrated Learning, Design Science, The Dark Web, Artificial Intelligence, and Phenomenology and the embodiment of meaning. Professor Haj-Bolouri studies the intersection of all above-mentioned areas through multidisciplinary research efforts together with industry partners such as the Swedish Police, the Migration Agency and EU, SJ, Tenstar Simulations, Göteborgs Stad, Nolato, and Hypr10. Professor Haj-Bolouri’s research is established both nationally, internationally, and in popular scientific media.

Professor Haj-Bolouri has published and presented research articles at top-ranked journals and confereences including: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Communications for the Association of Information Systems (CAIS), Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS), The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Journal of Workplace Learning, European Conference of Information Systems (ECIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems (DESRIST), and more.

How my research can make a difference

Professor Haj-Bolouri’s research vision is to increase the society’s awareness through scientific knowledge, to help the industry solve problems and develop knowledge through design science research, and to show the value of pushing the theoretical envelope through philosophical concepts and ideas that help both academics and industry partners to expand their understanding of technology, work, meaning, and learning.

External assignments (within and outside academia)

Professor Haj-Bolouri is the current President of the AIS Special Interest Group of Pragmatist Information Systems Research (SIGPrag). He is also an Associate Editor for the journals: European Journal of Information Systems, and Communications for the Association of Information Systems. Haj-Bolouri is also a member of the Association of the Information Systems and is an active reviewer for the most top-ranked journals and conferences within Information Systems as well as Workplace Learning.

Professor Haj-Bolouri was the conference chair of the 19th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), and has been awarded with Best Reviewer Award at the Scandinavian Conference of Information Systems 2023. He has been mentoring doctoral students at the doctoral consortium for the European Conference of Information Systems in Kristiansand, Norway, in 2023, and has also been an invited keynote speaker for both academia and industry. Moreover, Professor Haj-Bolouri has continuous assignments as committee member for defenses of doctoral students’ dissertation work in the fields of Informatics and Work-integrated Learning, seminar discussant for doctoral students in Informatics and Work-integrated Learning, and panelist in panel discussions for both industry and academia.

Teaching/supervision

Professor Haj-Bolouri is the current program director of University West’s bachelors program in Informatics, and has developed courses for both the bachelors program, masters program, and doctoral students’ program at University West. He has has also developed a doctoral student course in Philosophy of Science in University of Jyväskylä.

Professor Haj-Bolouri has a large and broad experience of teaching bachelor students, master students, and doctoral students, both at University West, but also other universities including: University of Galway, Lund University, Aalto University, Nurnberg University, University of Agder, University of Jyväskylä, and more. The subjects of teaching ranges from topics such as Programming, Systems Development, Evaluation of IT-systems, to Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Scientific Methods and Theory, How to Write Scientifically, Design Science Research, and more. He has experience of being the instructor of courses at all levels of education. 

Professor Haj-Bolouri has experience of supervising students at all levels, including bachelor students, master students, and doctoral students at University West, as well as supervising doctoral students at other international universities.

Keywords

Information systems, Informatics, Virtual Reality, Work-integrated Learning, Space, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Science and Technology, Design Science Resarch.

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Media

SR P1 Filosofiska Rummet (in Swedish)
About Meaning in Virtual Reality 
About Escapism
About Meaning and Humanity in the times of AI

Dagens Nyheter
About Escapism and the Avatar Phenomenon

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About Philosophy, again!