Client as designer in collaborative design science research projects: what does social science design theory tell us?

Judith Weedman

European Journal of Information Systems, 2008, vol. 17, issue 5, 476-488

Abstract: This paper reports a study of a design science research project in which researchers in computer science and earth science collaborated to attack a looming problem in the earth sciences – the need to analyze data of different types (satellite data at various resolutions, text, raster, and vector). The motivations of the two partners appeared complementary – the computer scientists needed a hard problem to solve to focus their research, and the earth scientists had a hard problem in need of solution. This study uses theory and research on design from the social sciences to explore the experience of users who are included as partners in a design project. It finds that it is very difficult for a client partner to enter the ‘design world’ as full collaborators.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2008.46

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