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Call for Papers
AIS SIGPRAG Pre-ICIS workshop on
”Practice-based Design and Innovation of Digital Artifacts”
December 12, 2015, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Background – pragmatic perspectives
There have been many calls in the information systems (IS) community for
a stronger pragmatic focus. This can be seen in a growing interest for
research approaches and methods in IS that emphasize contribution to
practice and collaboration between the practice and academia. Action
research, which aims for knowledge development through collaboration and
intervention in real settings, is achieving more and more academic
credibility (Baskerville & Myers, 2004; Davison et al, 2004). This can
also be said about design science research that aims for the generation
of new and useful artifacts (Hevner et al, 2004; Gregor & Jones, 2007).
Research through evaluation has had a long and venerable place in IS
research (Ward et, 1996; Serafeimidis & Smithson, 2003). Several
approaches and frameworks that combine or integrate elements from the
above-mentioned approaches have also emerged, e.g. practice research
(Goldkuhl, 2011), collaborative practice research (Mathiassen, 2002),
practical science (Gregor, 2008), engaged scholarship (Mathiassen &
Nielsen, 2008), action design research (Sein et al, 2011) and technical
action research (Wieringa & Morali, 2012). Underlying these different
approaches is a quest for practical relevance of the conducted research
(Benbasat & Zmud, 1999; Van de Ven, 2007; Wieringa, 2010). It is not
enough to only “mirror” the world through descriptions and explanations
but a pragmatic orientation recognizes intervention and design as a way
of knowing and a means for building knowledge about social and
institutional phenomena (Aakhus, 2007). There is a need for knowledge of
other epistemic kinds that contributes more clearly to the improvement
of IS practices.
A pragmatic orientation can also be seen in the increasing interest in
the conceptualization of practices, activities, agency and actions.
Practice theorizing has gained an increased attention in IS studies
(Orlikowski, 2008; Leonardi, 2011). There has been an interest for
agency and action oriented theories in IS for quite some time; e.g.
activity theory (Nardi, 1996), structuration theory (Orlikowski, 1992),
social action theorizing (Hirschheim et al, 1996), human agency
theorizing (Boudreau & Robey, 2005) and language action perspective
(Winograd & Flores, 1986). From this follows also an interest for social
and pragmatic views of the IT artifact (Aakhus & Jackson, 2005). This
includes views of the IT artifact as contextually embedded and carriers
of those social contexts (Orlikowski & Iacono, 2001) and such artifacts
being tools for action and communication (Ågerfalk, 2003; Markus &
Silver, 2008). Design research practice and the contributions to
practice through appropriation of knowledge and methods and the
contributions to academia through knowledge artifacts has been discussed
(Donnellan, Sjöström, Helfert, 2012).This enhanced practice and action
orientation follows a growing awareness within IS scholars towards
pragmatism as a research foundation (e.g. Goles & Hirschheim, 2000;
Ågerfalk, 2010; Goldkuhl, 2012). It is not the case that IS scholars
suddenly become pragmatists in their research orientation. It is rather
the case that there is move from an implicit pragmatism to an explicit
one (Goldkuhl, 2012). For a long time IS scholars have addressed
practical problems with an interest for improvement. That interest has
led to the extensive development of methods, models and constructive
frameworks for not only the design of IT artifacts, but also related to
several other IS/IT phenomena like e.g. innovation management, business
process management, project management, IT service management just to
mention a few. These methods actually reveal an on-going search for
knowledge of other epistemic kinds for advancing understanding of
information technology, information systems, and practice.
Workshop focus
This AIS SIGPRAG Pre-ICIS workshop has a general orientation towards
pragmatic perspectives on IS as described above. The focus is on
“Practice-based Design and Innovation of Digital Artifacts”. This means
an emphasis on digital artifacts as embedded in social practices and
carriers of elements in such practices. It emphasizes also the
innovative nature of designing new artifacts and new practices. The
workshop acknowledges different sub-themes within this broad workshop theme:
· Ways to research practice-based design and innovation of
digital artifacts
· Ways to conceptualize and describe practices
· Ways to conceptualize and describe digital artifacts
· The processes of innovation and design of digital artifacts and
practices
Topics within these sub-themes are described below.
Workshop purpose
This workshop is arranged in the same spirit and a continuation of
earlier successful SIGPRAG workshops on “Practice research”, “IT
Artifact Design & Workpractice Improvement” and “Action Research &
Design Research Integrations”.
This SIGPRAG workshop intends to bring scholars and practitioners
together for a knowledge exchange and development on research
foundations and practical contributions concerning the design and
innovation of digital artifacts and practices. The SIGPRAG workshop is
intended to be a developmental arena with thoughtful and constructive
feedback from reviews and comments on site. The workshop should be a
place where you can present ideas in papers and get fruitful feedback
for further development of the papers. A developmental arena means also
taking responsibility for pushing contributions further to high-quality
journal publications. From earlier SIGPRAG workshops (ADWI-2012,
ADWI-2013 and ADWI-2014) several papers have been pushed further into
special issues in the open access journal Systems, Signs & Actions. At
least one special issue will be arranged in Systems, Signs & Actions
inviting promising papers from this SIGPRAG workshop. The theme will be
decided on later. We will possibly also work with some other outlet for
another special issue. This depends on the outcome of the workshop.
Topics
The workshop can include papers from diverse fields of IS. Topics
following the identified workshop sub-themes are listed below.
Ways to research practice-based design and innovation of digital
artifacts; empirical research approaches such as:
· Practice research
· Action research
· Design science research
· Action design research
· Case study research
· Evaluation research
· Discourse analysis
· Pragmatic inquiries
· Practitioner – research collaborations
Ways to research practice-based design and innovation of digital
artifacts; knowledge creation approaches such as:
· Design theory development
· Method design/refinement
· Grounded theory development
· Multi-grounded theory development
· Practical theory development
Ways to conceptualize and describe practices; for example:
· Symbolic interaction
· Language action
· Socio-materiality
· Institutionalism
· Actor-networks
· Infrastructure evolution
· Socio-instrumentalism
· Distributed cognition
· Distributed agency
Ways to conceptualize and describe digital artifacts; for example:
· Ensemble view
· Socio-technical view
· Contextual view
· Functional tool view
· Affordance view
· Communicative action view
The processes of innovation and design of digital artifacts and
practices; for example aspects such as:
· Innovation strategies
· Openness in innovation
· Design thinking
· Collaborative design
· Stakeholder interactions (power-playing vs. value balancing and
informed consensus building)
· Practice understanding and diagnosis
· Wicked problems
· Problem formulation
· Values and goals articulation
· Idea generation
· Idea capture
· Design conversations
· Idea visualization (modeling, prototyping)
· Strategies for testing and evaluation
Dates and submission details
Submissions: September 30, 2015
Notification: October 31, 2015
Final manuscripts: November 30, 2015
Workshop: December 12, 2015
The workshop website is http://sigprag.net/. The workshop will follow an
ordinary scientific procedure with submission of papers and selection of
papers through peer-review (pursued by an international program
committee). Papers are expected to be between 5-16 pages. We welcome
full research papers as well as shorter papers (work-in-progress or
position papers). For submissions we use the EasyChair system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigpragws2015). A format
template can be found at the workshop website (http://sigprag.net/).
Workshop proceedings will be electronically published and distributed.
There will be a small workshop fee covering catering.
Workshop co-chairs
Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
(Brian.Donnellan@nuim.ie)
Göran Goldkuhl, Linköping University, Sweden (goran.goldkuhl@liu.se)
Jonas Sjöström, Uppsala University, Sweden (jonas.sjostrom@im.uu.se)
Mark Aakhus, Rutgers University, NJ, USA (aakhus@rci.rutgers.edu)
Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland
(Markus.Helfert@computing.dcu.ie)
Organisers
AIS Special interest group on Pragmatic IS research (AIS SIGPRAG),
http://sigprag.net/
Programme Committee
Michel Avital, Denmark
Rodney Clarke, Australia
Stefan Cronholm, Sweden
Matt Germonprez, USA
Rob Gleasure, Ireland
Shirley Gregor, Australia
Ola Henfridsson, UK
Philip Huysman, Belgium
Matt Levy, USA
Kalle Lyytinen, USA
Matthew Mullarkey, USA
Matti Rossi, Finland
Gerhard Schwabe, Switzerland
Christian Tornack, Germany
Roel Wieringa, the Netherlands
More members to be announced.
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