Information Systems Development as an Activity

Korpela, Mikko; Mursu, Anja; Soriyan, Hettie Abimbola

doi:10.1023/a:1015252806306

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“…Activity theory has been employed in several fields of scholarship for understanding complex human activity (Engeström, 2000;Hassan Ibrahim & Allen, 2012;Wells, 2002) and informing system design (Chen, Sharman, Rao, & Upadhyaya, 2013;Korpela, Mursu, & Soriyan, 2002). Demonstrating its usefulness in ontology development Kuhn (2001) used some of the hierarchical concepts available from activity theory, namely activity-actions-operations, to structure an ontology.…”

Section: Informing Ontology Development Using Activity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making sense of digital traces: An activity theory driven ontological approach

Karanasios

Thakker

Lau

et al. 2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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Social Web content such as blogs, videos and other user-generated content present a vast source of rich "digital-traces" of individuals' experiences. The use of digital traces to provide insight into human behavior remains underdeveloped. Recently, ontological approaches have been exploited for tagging and linking digital traces, with progress made in ontology models for well-defined domains.However, the process of conceptualization for ill-defined domains remains challenging; requiring interdisciplinary efforts to understand the main aspects and capture them in a computer processable form. The primary contribution of this paper is a theory driven approach to ontology development that supports semantic augmentation of digital traces. Specifically we argue that (1) activity theory can be used to develop more insightful conceptual models of ill-defined activities; which (2) can be used to inform the development of an ontology; and, (3) that this ontology can be used to guide the semantic augmentation of digital traces for making sense of phenomena. A case study on interpersonal communication is chosen to illustrate the applicability of the proposed multidisciplinary approach. The benefits of the approach are illustrated through an example application, demonstrating how it may be used to assemble and make sense of digital traces.

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Section: Informing Ontology Development Using Activity Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making sense of digital traces: An activity theory driven ontological approach

Karanasios

Thakker

Lau

et al. 2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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“…Activity Theory has become a focal point of interest recently among developers of Information Systems (IS) [16,17] . In this paper we are using Activity Theory as a framework to develop knowledge sharing ontology for Healthcare System.…”

Section: Introduction Of Activity Theorymentioning

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Activity Theory Ontology for Knowledge Sharing in E-health

Bai

Guo

2010

2010 International Forum on Information Technology and Applications

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“…The ability to combine theory and practice and the use of an appropriate research method that can mediate this intention are advocated by proponents such as Baskerville and Myers [1], Lindgren, Henfridsson and Schultze [14], Mårtensson and Lee [15], Baskerville and Wood-Harper [2] as well as Korpela, Mursu and Soriyan [11]. All of these authors refer to the fact that the ability to apply research successfully in practice is related to the ability to cope with the complexity of the environment and the ability to ensure collaboration and participation between the role players in the theoretical and practical environments.…”

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Practice-as-research: An example of the use of action research to link practice and theory in a case of Information Systems strategy development

Toit¹,

Lotriet²

2010

SACJ

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The ability to link IS practice to a sound theoretical and scientific basis has been an ongoing endeavour for both IS practitioners and researchers. This stems from the need of both practitioners and theorists to be able to ensure that the relationship between practical knowledge and experience gained in the workplace can be grounded in theory with due consideration of the converse requirement for theory to be based on practice. This paper provides an example of how Action Research (AR) was successfully applied by a practitioner as method in a South African strategic IS management environment. The paper describes the specifics of the process that was used and highlights various issues that had to be considered in this specific instance of use of AR as method.

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Information Systems Development as an Activity

Cited by 63 publications

References 15 publications

Making sense of digital traces: An activity theory driven ontological approach

Making sense of digital traces: An activity theory driven ontological approach

Activity Theory Ontology for Knowledge Sharing in E-health

Practice-as-research: An example of the use of action research to link practice and theory in a case of Information Systems strategy development

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