Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Hotel Golf Libertas, 9:00 - 10:30

Chair:
Wolfgang Maass, Professor
Furtwangen University, Germany & Private Lecturer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Panelists:
Paula M. C. Swatman, State Records of S.A./Fuji Xerox/State Library of S.A.
Professor of Business Information Management
School of Computer & Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia
Jan Marco Leimeister
Information Systems, Institute for Computer Science, Technical University Munich
Christine Legner, Chair
Enterprise Systems and Electronic Business (Deputyship), European Business School (EBS), Germany

Panel outline

The vision of Tangible e-Commerce (TeC) can be described in one sentence:  “E-Commerce on anything anywhere and anytime.” With ubiquitously available e-commerce services business models can be implemented for all any kind of tangible object, anytime, in any work or living environment.

But isn’t this what e-Commerce does, anyway? Well – yes and no.  E-Commerce is, indeed, the electronic enabling of transactions.  But you only have to look at how Amazon has begun to integrate what it offers, to see that simply enabling transactions across the Web is no longer enough: in the simplest possible example, a would-be purchaser looking for a particular book can now also read what other people have said about that book and, if purchasing through one of Amazon's affiliates, can also find out what other purchasers think about that particular supplier.  And this is merely the beginning.

This panel is designed to pull together the work being done around the world by researchers seeking to make e-Commerce truly tangible. The panel members look at this issue from a variety of perspectives: identifying the issues; resolving the technical and technological aspects; developing prototypes; modelling solutions in a variety of ways; and evaluating the benefits of tangible from Tangible e-Commerce.

What is Tangible e-Commerce?