Presentation made at faculty seminar

Date: June 5, 2009
I gave a presentation that day on Action Research (AR) in Information System (IS) research. We had a good discussion on the methodology of AR in IS research. IS research in KICT currently is predominantly survey and case study within the positivist paradigm. So far, no AR research conducted in KICT. In CS the research is more toward design research. As my research method is AR I think I should try to present something on AR to the faculty.
AR in IS is well established research method (slide 4). Betweem 1997 and 2007, a number of articles had been written by the major IS scholars on AR to established the validity & credibility of the research method in IS field. Their works have been cited beyond IS literature as a major contribution in the AR development.

In the discussion, Prof Bakri inquired on more current research reports (2008-2009). Unfortunately I did not made any search on the research trend in 2008/09. So, later searching into the ACM database I found at least 7 study in 2008. They are listed below.
2008:
1. Chapman & van der Merwe (2008). Contemplating systematic software reuse in a project-centric company. ACM ICP Series, Vol. 338.
2. Plummer et al. (2008) A wiki that knows where it is being used: insights from potential user. ACM SIGMIS Database.
3. Strazdins (2008). Applying the community of practice approach to individual IT projects. Conference in Research & Practice in IT series, Vol 315.
4. Hansen, Robertson, Wilson & Hall (2008). Using AR approach to design a telemedicine system for critical; care: a reflection. 20th Australasian Conference on CHI.
5. Chang, Hsu, Wang (2008). Action science approach to nonprofit housing service using web 2.0 mapping tools. 17th International Conference on WWW, Beijing China.
6. Saeed & Yang (2008). Incorporating blogs, social bookmarks, and podcasts into unit teaching. Conference in Research & Practice in IT Series, Vol. 315.
7. Trauth, Quesenberry, Huang & McKnight (2008). Linking economic development and workforce diversity through AR. SIG on Conputer Personnel Research Annual Conference.

I'm still searching into other databases. Hoping to find more IS studies taking the AR approach. What I notice in the report, the validity & credibility issues were not the focus anymore.

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