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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">apologies for any cross-posting. Please find this call for papers for DESRIST, hosted at University of Agder, and please feel free to forward it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Carl Erik Moe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Department of Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of Agder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121">16th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Conference Theme: The Next Wave of Sociotechnical Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The design science research (DSR) community has traditionally focused on socio-technical design to improve the human condition, simultaneously considering tasks, technologies, people, and social
structures at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. As the field matured, the “design first and people will adapt” approach gave way to methods and frameworks that embrace the evolving needs of users as well as contextual changes over time.
Broadly speaking, DSR scholars have taken three approaches. Some work closely with stakeholders and practitioners using action design research (ADR) to gain a deeper understanding into their needs, wishes, and challenges. Others focus on developing novel and
innovative artifacts to assist specific target users in pursuing their aims. Still others find ways to make the knowledge created through their DSR projects reusable across contexts and time, so that designers can build on this knowledge and focus attention
on developing methods and artifacts of increasing usefulness. What these three approaches have in common is their cognizance of the sociotechnical nature of design.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The recent global developments remind us of the potentials of digital technologies to redesign our lives for the better. In 2020, the DSR community hosted their first ever virtual-only DESRIST
and moved various activities online that many would have expected to only work face-to-face. While this was a positive experience, it also brings to our attention the potentially harmful unintended consequences of digital technologies, if not used mindfully.
Surveillance, digital divide, and algorithmic biases are among those effects that have been debated in the media and elsewhere. Essentially though, these technologies are first and foremost design artifacts, that is, humans design their instantiations and
intentions. What can we, the DSR community, do to help shape digital transformation and innovation to better serve people, organizations, and society?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We need to take a step back and revisit the roots of sociotechnical design to make them relevant in the context of the current social and technological advances, including diminishing boundaries
of organizations, platformization, and the productive use of artificial intelligence-. We need to embrace the next wave of sociotechnical design. Our intention for DESRIST 2021 is that it will help the DSR community find its role in this new era by clarifying
and strengthening the meaning and scope of DSR. How can we highlight the sociotechnical character of DSR? How do we measure our research impacts, and what have we achieved so far? What are the criteria by which we can show and justify the quality of DSR projects,
outcomes, and publications? How can we gain deeper insights into the practice of DSR? How can we, as a field, extend the boundaries of DSR by demonstrating state-of-the-art DSR with and for emerging technologies and organizational practices? Answering these
questions will help us make our field ready for the next wave of socio-technical design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The 16th DESRIST conference welcomes submissions in the following areas, but is open to other thought-provoking DSR pieces. We invite empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Highlighting the sociotechnical characters of DSR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- DSR and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Assessing and measuring the impacts of DSR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Criteria for DSR processes and outcomes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- DSR standardization versus creativity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Full paper submission: 5 April 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Short paper submission: 5 April 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">- Research summary for the doctoral consortium: 17 May 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We look forward to receiving your full papers, short papers, prototype papers, and panel proposals. We also invite doctoral researchers who are interested to attend the doctoral consortium to submit
a summary of their research. Our doctoral consortium brings together early-stage and experienced design science researchers and provides a platform for constructive exchange. You will appreciate the transformational mentorship experience as well as the exciting
networking opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">All paper submissions will go through a double-blind review process conducted by an international review panel. Your paper will be assessed anonymously by two reviewers and managed by the program
committee. Your prototype submissions will be handled by the prototype chairs. Your panel proposals will be reviewed by the conference committee and managed by the panel chairs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Conference Chairs: Carl Erik Moe, Kai R. Larsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Program Chairs: Leona Chandra Kruse and Stefan Seidel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">General Chairs: Maung Kyaw Sein, Leif Flak, Matti Rossi, Oliver Müller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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