Paper Type
Research-in-Progress Paper
Description
Nowadays mobile devices like smartphones can be used for nearly all entertainment and information applications. With the diffusion of these devices and the usage of built-in sensors, ubiquitous information systems (UIS) are used in a wide range of services in different real-world situations. However, when designing UIS, development approaches for desktop-based information system (IS) are no longer applicable. In UIS, users encounter many different situations, which poses a challenge for designing these services. Thus knowing these situations exhibits a central. But adopting a situation-oriented system design has not been as essential to IS research as it is for UIS. Since the latter has only started gaining the IS community´s attention, there has not been thorough investigation on situations in UIS. In this research in progress paper we propose a method, which outlined using a design science research approach for firmly investigating the users´ situations and adopting this knowledge to UIS prototypes. We divide our methodological approach into two phases: (1) knowledge collection and (2) innovation implementation. In this paper we outline the concept of the first phase by presenting an existing UIS prototype that is used to evaluate our method as well as depict our contribution to research on UIS.
SITUATION-ORIENTED UBIQUITOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS INNOVATION PROCESS - LEVERAGING USER INTEGRATION
Nowadays mobile devices like smartphones can be used for nearly all entertainment and information applications. With the diffusion of these devices and the usage of built-in sensors, ubiquitous information systems (UIS) are used in a wide range of services in different real-world situations. However, when designing UIS, development approaches for desktop-based information system (IS) are no longer applicable. In UIS, users encounter many different situations, which poses a challenge for designing these services. Thus knowing these situations exhibits a central. But adopting a situation-oriented system design has not been as essential to IS research as it is for UIS. Since the latter has only started gaining the IS community´s attention, there has not been thorough investigation on situations in UIS. In this research in progress paper we propose a method, which outlined using a design science research approach for firmly investigating the users´ situations and adopting this knowledge to UIS prototypes. We divide our methodological approach into two phases: (1) knowledge collection and (2) innovation implementation. In this paper we outline the concept of the first phase by presenting an existing UIS prototype that is used to evaluate our method as well as depict our contribution to research on UIS.