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<p><span style="color:black">Dear colleagues and friends,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:black">Please allow me to kindly remind you of the coming DESRIST 2021 deadlines: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="color:black">Full Research Papers and Research-In-Progress Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Submissions due: April 19, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Submission due: April 19, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Notication by: May 17, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Submission due: June 1, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please find the call for paper below.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Leona Chandra Kruse</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Call for Paper</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="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 lang="EN-US" style="color:black">4-6 August 2021, <b>Kristiansand, Norway</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US">.
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We are hopeful to be able to host the conference at the university. Final decision on the venue and modalities will be communicated on June 15, 2021. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Conference Theme: The Next Wave of Sociotechnical Design</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://desrist2021.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">https://desrist2021.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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="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?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Highlighting the sociotechnical characters of DSR</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Integrating a better understanding of people, organizations, and society into DSR</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- DSR and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Assessing and measuring the impacts of DSR</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Ethical considerations for DSR</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Conference dates: 4 - 6 August 2021 (DC and Industry Day: 4 August 2021)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Research summary for the doctoral consortium: 1 June 2021</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="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. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The accepted papers will be included in DESRIST Proceedings, published by the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Conference Chairs: Carl Erik Moe, Kai R. Larsen</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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