Amir Haj-Bolouri

A Mid-Range Theory for Designing Sustainable Safe Spaces of Immersive Learning Environments : A Design-Science Based Gamification Approach

Gamification provides a prominent technique that can be used to provide Immersive Learning Environments (ILEs) for domains, where it is dangerous o...

Ethics in Information Systems and Design Science Research : Five Perspectives

While ethics are recognized as an integral part of information systems (IS) research, many questions about the role of ethics in research practice...

A proposal for minimum reusability evaluation of design principles

Many Design Science Research (DSR) papers in Information Systems (IS) suggest sets of design principles (DPs) that provide knowledge for creating...

Action design research as a means for organizing workplace learning : case studies of e-learning platforms

Purpose Although there is a large body of literature available on the foundations of workplace learning (WPL), little is known about designated...

Revisiting the Problem of The Problem : An Ontology and Framework for Problem Assessment in is Research

A comprehensive understanding of how to achieve relevance and practical impact with our work remains elusive within the information systems (IS)...

Revitalizing thoughts on Theory, Theorizing, and Philosophizing in Information Systems

This book chapter provides revitalizing thoughts on the meaning of theory, theorizing, and philosophizing in the field of Information Systems (IS)....

Towards Design Principles for Safety Training in Virtual Reality : An Action Design Research Case

Virtual Reality (VR) technology has progressed and become viable for the purpose of education, learning, and training. Organizations adopt and empl...

Wickedness in Designing IT for Integration Work : A phenomenological account

In design for complex, uncertain, and ill-natured situations, it is not possible to apply known methods and solutions without having a deeper...

Design Principles Exposition : A Framework for Problematizing Knowledge and Practice in DSR

Design principles (DPs) have been recognized as a central contribution in Design Science Research and the research community has begun acknowledgin...

Having a Positive Impact with Design Science Research : Learning from Effective Altruism

How to increase the chances of overall positive, rather than negative, impacts from new technology developments is expected to be a key challenge f...

Meta-requirements for Immersive Collaborative Spaces in Industrial Workplace Learning : Towards a Design Theory

As the digital transformation of society accelerates, sophisticated Information Technologies (IT) emerge and are introduced into organizations and...

Design Principles for E-Learning that Support Integration Work : A Case of Action Design Research

Design principles are prescriptive knowledge that offers theory-based guidelines for Design Science Research in Information Systems. This paper...

Grounded Theory Methodology as a Resource for Pluralist Information Systems Research

MIS Quarterly recently published an extensive review of the Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM) inInformation Systems research (Wiesche et al., 2017)...

Toward Hybrid Spaces for Immersive Experiences of Work-integrated Learning : An Initial Inquiry

This work-in-progress paper briefly scrutinizes and discusses how immersive media (e.g. virtual reality, augmented reality) plays a role in...

Work-Integrated Learning as an Outcome of Using Action Design Research in Practice

This paper highlights Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) as an outcome of using Action Design Research (ADR) in practice. We argue that ADR is a subtyp...

Action Design Research in Practice : Lessons and Concerns

This paper reports on the results of a study of how scholars engage with and use the action designresearch (ADR) method. Since its publication, ADR...

Designing for Adaptable Learning

The research in this thesis emphasizes the endeavor of designing for adaptable learning. Designing for adaptable learning is understood as an overa...

Kernel Philosophy : A Way of Inspiring and Making Sense of Design in Information Systems Research?

This research in progress introduces the concept of kernel philosophy to advance prior discussions concerning design, meta-design, the underlying...

Software-embedded evaluation support in design science research

Even though the practice of integrating evaluative features into software has long been applied in commercially available software, it is still...

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 bee...

Conceptualizing the Essence of Presence in Distance Education through Digital Dasein

Abstract: In order to learn, presence is necessary. If we experience a genuinely rich presence, exams, tests and other forms of evaluating knowledg...

Conceptualizing the essence of presence in E-learning through digital dasein

In order to learn, presence is necessary. If we experience a genuinely rich presence, exams, tests and other forms of evaluating knowledge are not...

A Design Theory for Built-in Evaluation Support

Even though the practice of integrating evaluative features into the artifact has long been applied in commercially available software, it is still...

An information systems design theory for adaptabe E-learning

An Information Systems Design Theory is a prescriptive theory that offers theory-based principles, which can guide practitioners and scholars in th...

How Habermas' Philosophy can Inspire the Design of Information Systems : The Case of Designing an Open Learning Platform for Social Integration

The notions of immigration and social integration have increasingly become central themes in public discourse,particularly in the European Union....

Imparting social values through eLearning platform : A social learning approach

In this paper, we have identified a gap with regard to imparting social values in an eLearning platform that was designed for orienting immigrants...

PADRE : a Method for Participatory Action Design Research

Action Design Research (ADR) is a Design Research (DR) method that enriches the Design Science Research (DSR) paradigm, by providing stages and...

Work-integrated Learning in a Doctoral Course in Informatics

Being the first university in the world to provide doctoral program in Work-integrated Learning (WIL), we face the challenge of how to integrate...

A Duality of Digitalization : How Can We Understand the Tension Between Professional's Beliefs and Affordances with Digital Services in Civic Orientation?

Throughout the last 2 decades, workplaces have been provided with digital services for optimizing work activities and processes. A variety of...

CollaborGeneous : A Framework of Collaborative IT-Tools for Heterogeneous Groups of Learners

In this paper, we present our designed prototype: CollaborGeneous. CollaborGeneous is a framework of collaborative IT-tools for heterogeneous group...

Introducing PADRE : Participatory Action Design Research

Action Design Research (ADR) is a Design Research (DR) method that enriches the DesignScience Research (DSR) paradigm, by providing stages and...

The Notion of Users in Design Science Research

Design Science Research (DSR) has since the last decade become a paradigm within the field of Information Systems (IS). It provides researchers and...

Conceptualizing the Essence of Presence in Distance Education through Digital Dasein

In order to achieve learning, presence is necessary. If we have good presence, no tests are necessary. In distance learning, the concept of presenc...

Designing a Web-Based Education Platform for Swedish Civic Orientation

Newcomers in Sweden face a problem of learning the Swedish society with respect to laws, culture, democratic values, education system, labor market...

Designing for Heterogeneous Groups of End-Users Towards a Nascent Design Theory

Poverty, war, conflicts, and other forces of global turmoil are constantly challenging how developed nations design their processes for immigration...

The phenomenon of feeling addicted to social media : why do we feel addicted to social media?

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