-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [isworld] CFP AMCIS Minitrack: Generating the Design Space - Goal Setting, Requirements, and Beyond Datum: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:48:09 -0500 Von: Nicholas Berente nicholas.berente@case.edu Antwort an: Nicholas Berente nicholas.berente@case.edu An: AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org CC: berente@umich.edu, j.whyte@reading.ac.uk

We invite submissions to the AMCIS 2009 minitrack:

"Generating the Design Space - Goal Setting, Requirements, and Beyond" (within the "Design Theory and Research" track)

Objective

This mini-track seeks submissions on the up-front activities that frame design processes, broadly defined. While research into the design of software-intensive systems is encouraged, we also welcome submissions relating to the early stages in the design of other types of artifacts, socio-technical environments, or organizations.

Description

A wide range of up-front activities and representational practices frame design processes, shape subsequent design activity, and influence the character of the design output itself. Whether this first stage of a design can be described in terms such as “requirements elicitation,” “ideation,” or “goal setting” (as well as a host of other expressions), these early activities address what should be designed and why. Goals, specifications, and constraints are typically not self-evident from the start, but must be constructed, negotiated, and developed at some point near the beginning of any design process. Therefore, understanding the variety of practices that make up the very first activities of design is crucially important to insight into design processes in general, as well as their outcomes – and this understanding is vital if we wish to improve these processes and outcomes.

A variety of representational artifacts and practices are common in the early stages of design processes. For example, requirements documents, specifications, sketches, diagrams, client briefs, and conceptual models can all be leveraged within practical attempts to generate or frame a ‘space’ for productive design inquiry. As design problems elude complete definition, this work involves simplification and symbolic representation with the aim of shaping subsequent development work.

This mini-track seeks submissions on the up-front activities that frame a design processes, broadly defined. While research into the design of software-intensive systems is encouraged, we also welcome submissions relating to the early stages in the design of other types of artifacts, socio-technical environments, or organizations. We particularly encourage studies that draw upon case-based research; experiments; comparative studies; rich qualitative data; interpretive or critical methods; and/or empirically-driven theory generation. Potential topics for the mini-track include, but are not limited to the following:

Suggested Topics • Investigating the roles that documents, diagrams, and other artifacts play early in the design process in shaping that process and/or its outcomes; • Analysis of the generation of goals, requirements, or specifications for a design; • Studies that emphasize the use of digital technologies in the early stages of any type of design process; • Any aspect of the early stages in the development of digital technologies; • Novel forms of representations such as fantasy documents, mind maps, wikis, etc., that are leveraged in early stages of design processes; • Innovative methods for generating desirable design goals, processes, or requirements such as design thinking, systems thinking, storytelling, appreciative inquiry, etc. • Explorations of collaborative group activity involving ideation, creativity, brainstorming, sensemaking, etc., in generating the design space; • The role of iteration, prototyping, and exploration in framing subsequent design activity; • Trade-offs associated with different early-stage practices.

Minitrack co-chairs:

Nicholas Berente School of Information University of Michigan berente@umich.edu

Jennifer Whyte School of Construction Management & Engineering University of Reading j.whyte@reading.ac.uk

Further information about the conference and minitrack proposals is available in AMCIS2009 Web site at: http://www.amcis2009.org http://amcis2009.org/images/stories/amcis09/doc/amcis-mt-178-2009-File001.pd...

Important Dates: Papers Due February 20, 2009 (11:59 PST) Notification of Acceptance April 02, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due April 20, 2009 (11:59 PST)

-- Nick Berente University of Michigan www.berente.com

440.725.6150 berente@umich.edu

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