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<br>We invite you to submit a paper to the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">HICSS</span></span>) mini-track “Advances in Design Research for Information Systems”.<br>
<br>Below is a description of the mini-track as well as a link to the call for papers. Please circulate this information to other researchers interested in the advancement of design research. Additional information about the conference can be found at the website below.<br>
<br></span><a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">hicss</span>.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/apahome48.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We hope to see you in Hawaii in January 2015!</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
<br>Joseph Walls<br>George Widmeyer<br>Omar El Sawy<br><br>ADVANCES IN DESIGN RESEARCH FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS<br><br>This mini-track provides a venue for IS design researchers to share their work and interact with likeminded scholars. Design research may be viewed as having three major subfields.</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:0.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Design theory research focuses on the development of theories about creating new or improved information systems based on kernel theories. The IS design theory concept was first articulated two decades ago (Walls, et al, 1992) and continues to be developed (Jones and Gregor, 2007). Research reported at the annual Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) conference proceedings illustrates work that continues in this area (Gurzick and Lutters, 2009). Design theory papers have also been published in the ICIS Proceedings (e.g., Sarnikar and Deokar, 2009) and at <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">HICSS</span>-44 (e.g., Zhang, et al, 2011), <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">HICSS</span>-45 (e.g., Lee, et al, 2011), <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">HICSS</span>-46 (Lu and Käkölä, 2013) and <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">HICSS</span>-47 (Holmström, Tuunanen and Kauremaa, 2014).</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:0.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Design science research focuses on creating “new-to-the-world” IS artifacts (Hevner, et al, 2004).</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin-left:0.25in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Science of design research involves the study of how designers actually conduct design activities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We welcome papers from any of the above subfields.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.333333015441895px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Below is a link to the call for papers.</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/48CFP-final.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">hicss</span>.hawaii.edu/hicss_48/48CFP-final.pdf</a></p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><br><div>Joseph G. Walls, PhD<br>Adjunct Associate Professor<br>Technology and Operations<br>Ross School of Business<br>The University of Michigan<br>734.763.4610<br><br><br>
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