-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] European Design Science Workshop - Ireland/Leixlip Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:09:47 +0100 From: Markus Helfert markus.helfert@computing.dcu.ie To: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
As part of the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference (Ireland) the Innovation Value Institute (www.ivi.ie) is co-organising the "European Design Science Workshop"
on Thursday, 14th of October 2010 at Intel Ireland in Leixlip, Ireland
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum and platform for both researchers and practitioners. The workshop is geared at the exchange of knowledge, experiences and to discuss ideas on how design science can be applied to research in IT.
Further Information: ==================== http://www.intel.com/corporate/education/emea/event/irc/ireland/workshops.ht...
Registration: ============= http://www.intel.com/corporate/education/emea/event/irc/ireland/
Background: =========== Design Science creates and evaluates IT artefacts intended to solve identified organizational problems. Such artefacts are represented in a structured form that may vary from software, formal logic, and rigorous mathematics to informal natural language descriptions. The rich phenomena that emerge from the interaction of people, organizations, and technology may need to be qualitatively assessed to yield an understanding of the phenomena adequate for theory development or problem solving. As field studies enable behavioural-science researchers to understand organizational phenomena in context, the process of constructing and exercising innovative IT artefacts enable design-science researchers to understand the problem addressed by the artefact and the feasibility of their approach to its solution.
Developing innovative artefacts is a central activity in Design Science Research. Such artefacts can be in the form of constructs, models, methods or instantiations. For the construction of such artefacts two basic activities can be differentiated: build and evaluate where building “is the process of constructing an artefact for a specific purpose” and evaluation “is the process of determining how well the artefact performs”. This workshop will explore current thinking and emerging challenges in the application of Design Science in IT.
Guests Speakers: ================ Prof. Alan Hevner (University of South Florida) Prof. Sven Carlsson (Lund University) Mr. Jonas Sjostrom (Uppsala University) Dr. Markus Helfert (Dublin City University)
Topics: ======= *What makes projects different when using a design science approach? *What are typical design science projects? *What are the challenges in a design science project? *What are the advantages and limitations of following a design science approach? *How can practitioners’ benefit from a design science approach? *What is the role of researchers and practitioners in design science projects? *What is the demand for design science projects?
In addition to presentations and shared experiences from invited guest speakers, we encourage participants to actively contribute and participate in the discussions. In order to provide a platform for innovative ideas and initiating collaborative projects, participants have the opportunity to outline or propose design science oriented projects. Proposals may include existing projects, challenges and problems or project ideas.