In the field of IS a highly influential article on design science argue that
"instantiations" are a key output of research. Well-known examples may be
Yahoo and Google who both were the output of research projects at Stanford.
Maybe we can drive developments towards a situation where the academic world
would also count the "references" to such instantiations? At least If google
as a research result have been used by other researcher for study or
research, it should count for something. In other sciences the designers of
for instance laboratory machines can receive wide recognition, and they can
be credited in a part for the discoveries their "instantiations" led to.
(Perhaps we already do: Harzing's Publish or Perish finds 122 paper with
"google" as author, yielding a h-index of 1 for him/her/it ;-)
/Lars
March, S. T., & Smith, G. F. (1995). Design and natural science research on
information technology. Decision Support Systems, 15(4), 251-266.
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Robbie,
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>Should we design researchers
>consider these artefacts as a publication? If so, who will count them?
Even though the stuff designed may be based on systematic studies and
organised by
general principles, and even though the products are examples or embodiments
of a
proposition, principle, thesis, problem or other results from such studies,
they are not
publications in themselves. In the same way, patents are not publications
(even though
some people count them). Some design researchers closer to art than I am may
disagree
with me. (My background is in cognitive science and interaction design in a
computer
science context.)
However, they do count as a merit. It is difficult to do _some_ kinds of
design research
without any experience in designing. Furthermore, as a PhD student your are
training not
only to be a researcher, but also developing your career including ability
to teach and
ability to do leading professional development in the field of design. If
you in the future
want a teaching position or want to be a leading professional, the
productions you have
made do count. But simply counting the number of projects in a portfolio is
a somewhat
superficial way of judging a portfolio.
Cheers,
// Matti
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Mattias Arvola, Ph.D.
Sr. lecturer in Interaction Design.
Linköping University and Södertörn University.
www.arvola.se
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