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Design Science Research in Information Systems

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Design Research in Information Systems

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Design activities are central to most applied disciplines. Research in design has a long history in many fields including architecture, engineering, education, psychology, and the fine arts (Cross 2001). The computing and information technology (CIT) field since its advent in the late 1940s has appropriated many of the ideas, concepts, and methods of design science that have originated in these other disciplines. However, information systems (IS) as composed of inherently mutable and adaptable hardware, software, and human interfaces provide many unique and challenging design problems that call for new and creative ideas.

Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.

– Paola Antonelli

Design is where science and art break even.

– Robin Mathew

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  1. College of Business, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Alan Hevner

  2. School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, 130 East 9th Street, Claremont, CA, 91711, USA

    Samir Chatterjee

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Hevner, A., Chatterjee, S. (2010). Design Science Research in Information Systems. In: Design Research in Information Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 22. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5653-8_2

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