Summary of the Interactive Workshop Sessions at STPIS'16

In the morning interactive work session, a number of fundamental existential questions concerning socio-technical systems research as a discipline were raised. For example, the question of “Is truth about socio-technical systems discovered or created” was raised. As expected, different answers to the questions was discussed and debated. It was pointed out that since FACEBOOK, one of the world largest socio-technical systems, was created without the knowledge or use of socio-technical systems approach it may not make any difference if the truth is discovered or created. Next in the session, a brainstorming group activity was held to model were on the so call rigor relevance curve the STPIS workshop is today and where it should be. Dirk Riehles graph [1] of the rigor vs. relevance was used as a discussion platform, see Fig. 1. Participant were asked to make self-report plots as to where they saw their own paper on Riehles the rigor vs relevance graph, see Fig. 2.