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Ethical Design of Conversational Agents: Towards Principles for a Value-Sensitive Design

Conversational Agents (CAs) have become a new paradigm for human-computer interaction. Despite the potential benefits, there are ethical challenges to the widespread use of these agents that may inhibit their use for individual and social goals. …

Test-Driven Scenario Specification of Automotive Software Components

The rising complexity of automotive software makes it increasingly difficult to develop the software with high quality in short time. Especially the late detection of early errors, such as requirement inconsistencies and ambiguities, often causes …

Towards Designing an Adaptive Argumentation Learning Tool

Digitalization triggers a shift in the compositions of skills and knowledge needed for students in their future work life. Hence, higher order thinking skills are becoming more important to solve future challenges. One subclass of these skills, which …

Virtual Moderation Assistance: Creating Design Guidelines for Virtual Assistants Supporting Creative Workshops

To remain competitive, businesses need to develop innovative and profitable products, processes and services. The development of innovation relies on novel ideas, which can be generated during creative workshops. In this context the Design Thinking …

Action Design Research as a Method-in-Use: Problems and Opportunities

This paper reports on the results of a study to investigate how scholars engage with and use the action design research (ADR) approach. ADR has been acknowledged as an important variant of the Design Science Research approach, and has been adopted by …

brAInstorm: Intelligent Assistance in Group Idea Generation

In order to generate valuable innovations, it is important to come up with potential beneficial ideas. A well-known method for collective idea generation is Brainstorming and with Electronic Brainstorming, individuals can virtually brainstorm. …

Prescriptive Knowledge in Is Research: Conceptualizing Design Principles in Terms of Materiality, Action, and Boundary Conditions

In the IS discipline, the formulation of design principles is an important vehicle to convey design knowledge that contributes beyond instantiations applicable in a limited context of use. However, their formulation still varies in terms of …

Theorizing in Design Science Research: Inductive versus Deductive Approaches

This paper explores which theorizing strategies can be employed in DSR to make a theoretical contribution by examining two illustrative case examples. First, we find that abduction, deduction, and induction all play a role in DSR. Second, we suggest …

Action Research and Design Science Research - Seemingly Similar but Decisively Dissimilar

Prior research has identified the similarity of Action Research (AR) and Design Science Research (DSR). This paper analyses AR and DSR from several perspectives, including paradigmatic assumptions of ontology, epistemology, methodology, and ethics, …

Systems Development in Information Systems Research

The authors critically review systems development in information systems (IS) research. Several classification schemes of research are described and systems development is identified as a developmental, engineering, and formulative type of research. …