Information Systems DIGEST Podcast

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Associate Professor Joanna Saad-Sulonen. Joanna works at the Department of Digital Design at the IT University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Her interests include the intersections of participation, design of digital services and technologies, as well as civic participation. Empirically, she collects rich qualitative data through an ethnographic approach alongside participatory design interventions. She aims to draw attention to the ongoing need of ensuring citizens' agency and engagement in shaping their digital world. Joanna's research draws from the Scandinavian participatory design and computer supported collaborative work theories and she regularly publishes her participatory design research in related conferences and journals such as Science and Technology Studies and NordiCHI.

In this episode, we continue our design theme episodes by unravelling participatory design (PD), the Scandinavian tradition and related roots to democratization, talking further about the many hats researchers wear during ethnographic research in PD, upscaling and the potential involvement of service design as part of a hybridized future in design research.
References:
Kaptelinin, V., & Bannon, L. J. (2012). Interaction design beyond the product: Creating technology-enhanced activity spaces. Human–Computer Interaction, 27(3), 277-309.

Saad-Sulonen, J., De Götzen, A., Morelli, N., & Simeone, L. (2020, June). Service design and participatory design: time to join forces?. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 2 (pp. 76-81).

Saad-Sulonen, J. C., & Horelli, L. (2010). The value of Community Informatics to participatory urban planning and design: a case-study in Helsinki. The Journal of Community Informatics, 6(2).

Saad-Sulonen, J., Halskov, K., Huybrechts, L., Vines, J., Eriksson, E., & Karasti, H. (2015). Unfolding Participation. What do we mean by participation–conceptually and in practice. Aarhus Series on Human Centered Computing, 1(1), 4.

Simonsen, J., & Robertson, T. (Eds.). (2013). Routledge international handbook of participatory design (Vol. 711). New York: Routledge.
Participatory Design Conference - https://pdc2022.org/

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Assistant Professor Sam Zaza from Middle Tennessee State University, USA. Her main research interests lie in diversity, equity, and inclusion; IT career and nature of work, and methodological approaches. She is active in AIS as the SIG Social Inclusion President, SIG Lead President, and Women College CoChair and is the recent winner of the Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the Year (2023). Sam has published her work in various journals such as Information & Organization, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems, among other proceedings in regional and international conferences.

March is women's month, and we are back for the second time to talk about women in information systems. We unravel what social inclusion is and consider social inclusion from varying perspectives applied to the information systems discipline. We explore and reflect on what are 'our' challenges for social inclusion in conferences and the IS community, ponder why there is limited gender-related research, and ways forward for change.
References:
Gupta, B., Loiacono, E. T., Dutchak, I. G., & Thatcher, J. B. (2019). A field-based view on gender in the information systems discipline: Preliminary evidence and an agenda for change. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 20(12), 2.

Loiacono, E., Iyer, L., Ashong Elliot, M. A., & Cooper, V. A. (2021). Engaging Women in Information Systems: Where Are We Headed?.

Masiero, Silvia and Aaltonen, Aleksi, "Gender Bias in Information Systems Research: A Literature Review" (2020). AISWN International Research Workshop on Women, IS and Grand Challenges 2020. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/aiswn2020/2

Trauth, E. M., & Howcroft, D. (2006). Social inclusion and the information systems field: why now?. In Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems: IFIP TC8 WG8. 2 International Working Conference, July 12–15, 2006, Limerick, Ireland (pp. 3-12). Springer US.

Trauth, E. (2017). A research agenda for social inclusion in information systems. ACM SIGMIS Database: the Database for Advances in Information Systems, 48(2), 9-20.

Zaza, Sam; Annabi, Hala; and Connolly, Amy J., "All you need to know about publishing Social Inclusion Research in high-quality IS Journals?" (2022). AMCIS 2022 TREOs. 25. https://aisel.aisnet.org/treos_amcis2022/25

Zhou, Shimi; Loiacono, Eleanor; Nerur, Sridhar; Randolph, Adriane B.; Lingo, Elizabeth; Iyer, Lakshmi; and Carter, Michelle, "Authorship, Collaboration, and Influence of Women IS Scholars: Using Social Network Analysis" (2022). AMCIS 2022 Proceedings. 6. https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2022/sig_si/sig_si/6

Other sources:
AIS Women's Network: https://www.aiswn.org and Twitter @AISWN_AIS
Women's IMPACT IT Research Grant: https://impactit.pages.wm.edu/

Check out these other women-oriented podcasts:
https://www.cathymazak.com/podcast/
https://theresearchher.com/
Special note: I am disgusted that I need to disclose this. Hate speech will not be tolerated and any offenders will be blocked and reported.

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Entrepreneur and Associate Professor Shellie Boudreau formerly from Aalborg University, Denmark. (Note: Shellie is no longer working at Aalborg University but at the time of recording she was). Her main research interests started with biomedical engineering for pain and health technology, but through her passion of communication, a desire to move beyond traditional academic roles was found. Shellie is CEO of the research based start-up Aglance Solutions which is a result of her own pain-based research morphed into a software business called Navigate Pain. Shellie has further pushed her entrepreneurial spirit through a communication-focused company called ContentAvenue with a purpose of overcoming the academic and business gap and effectively communicate science.

In this episode, we deviate from some of the expected patterns of this podcast and instead we traverse the boundaries of academia and industry. We reflect on how we can take research-based ideas and transform them into innovations, the trials and tribulations of walking the tightrope of an academic entrepreneur, and learn more about Shellie's experiences doing both all while dealing with some of the taboos of leaving academia.
Sources:
Scientific Communication: https://contentavenue.com/
Blog post: https://blog.contentavenue.com/with-great-power-comes-three-reasons-why-scientists-dread-interviews/
Navigate Pain Software: https://www.aglancesolutions.com/blog/categories/navigate-pain-software
Muracki, J., Kumorek, M., Kisilewicz, A., Pożarowszczyk, B., Larsen, D. B., Kawczyński, A., & Boudreau, S. (2019). Practical use of the navigate pain application for the assessment of the area, location, and frequency of the pain location in young soccer goalkeepers. Journal of Human Kinetics, 69(1), 125-135.
Galve Villa, M., S Palsson, T., Cid Royo, A., R Bjarkam, C., & Boudreau, S. A. (2020). Digital pain mapping and tracking in patients with chronic pain: Longitudinal study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(10), e21475.
NERDs - Network for Research Entrepreneur Developers
Twitter: @contentave

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Sandeep Purao. He is a Trustee Professor in the Information and Process Management Group and Associate Director of the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics at Bentley University. He is also a Visiting Professor at Agder University in Norway. His current research focuses on the design and evaluation of digital solutions for complex societal problems. Sandeep's work has been published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions, Journal of the Medical Internet Research and others, and funded by federal agencies, private foundations, and industry consortia. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
In this episode, we finish our design theme series by exploring designing for societal good through projects on a more micro-scale for elderly communities when practicing self-management of illness and empathy as part of the design process, as well as designing counters to political polarization in fake news and echo chambers. Commencing the new year off on a positive note, with insights from Sandeep about bringing about change in a world and finding joy in what we do. We are academic superheroes!

References:
Hao, H., Garfield, M. and Purao, S. 2021. Risk Factors that Contribute to the Length of Homeless Shelter Stays: Evidence-based Regression Analyses. International Journal of Public Health, Forthcoming.
Herwix, A., Haj-Bolouri, A., Rossi, M., Chiarini-Tremblay, M., Purao, S., and Gregor, S. 2022. Ethics in Information Systems and Design Science Research: Five Perspectives. Communications of the AIS, Forthcoming.

Khouri, Y., Purao, S., & Duffy, M. 2018. The Influence of Values on the Use of Citizen Services: The Elderly Perspective. In Proceedings of the 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
Purao, S., Murungi, D. M., & Yates, D. 2021. Deliberative Breakdowns in the Social Representation Process: Evidence from Reader Comments in Partisan News Sites. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 4(2), 1-35.

Purao, S., Hao, H., and Meng, C. 2021. The Use of Smart Home Speakers by the Elderly: Exploratory Analyses and Potential for Big Data. Big Data Research. Elsevier.
Purao, S., & Garfield, M. 2020. Process Modeling in Humanitarian Settings: A Case Study and Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS).

Purao, S. 2002. Design research in the technology of information systems: Truth or dare. Unpublished Manuscript, Georgie State University.

Selected References on Design:
Baldwin, C.Y., Clark, K.B. and Clark, K.B., 2000. Design rules: The power of modularity (Vol. 1). MIT press.

Cross, N., 1982. Designerly ways of knowing. Design studies, 3(4), pp.221-227.
Simon, H.A., 1996. The sciences of the artificial. MIT press.

Suh, N.P. and Suh, P.N., 1990. The principles of design (No. 6). Oxford University Press.

Other References:
Al Gore's Budgets' - https://www.ccair.org/guest-blog-what-i-learned-from-spending-three-days-with-al-gore/

Sandeep Purao's Website - https://purao.us/research-projects/

Vanessa Otero Political Polzarization- https://libguides.geneseo.edu/newsliteracy/identifying-major-news-sources

Host Casandra Grundstrom is joined by special guest Professor Torgeir Dingsøyr. Torgeir is professor in software engineering – agile at the Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is further adjunct chief research scientist at the SimulaMet research laboratory. His research has focused on teamwork and learning in software development, as well as development methods for large software projects and programs. He has published in the software engineering, information systems and project management fields.

This episode is the first in a planned ongoing series pushing towards education and educational materials in different formats. The purpose of this episode is to discuss qualitative case studies and the intended audience is aimed towards early-stage researchers such as those working on their PhD, master students, or those reflecting on what it means to do a case study. We will be unravelling some of the underlying theoretical and practical mysteries of qualitative case studies by using Torgeir's explanatory (2023) and exploratory (2018) case studies in the context of software development projects. It is recommended to read both of these articles linked below first to better follow along the examples and implications. The theoretical discussion is guided by Yin's (2011) 6-stage process model: plan, design, prepare, collect, analyze, and share.
References:
Explanatory case study https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10230-6
Dingsøyr, T., Bjørnson, F. O., Schrof, J., & Sporsem, T. (2023). A longitudinal explanatory case study of coordination in a very large development programme: the impact of transitioning from a first-to a second-generation large-scale agile development method. Empirical Software Engineering, 28(1), 1-49.
Exploratory case study https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-017-9524-2
Dingsøyr, T., Moe, N. B., Fægri, T. E., & Seim, E. A. (2018). Exploring software development at the very large-scale: a revelatory case study and research agenda for agile method adaptation. Empirical Software Engineering, 23, 490-520.
Dingsøyr, T., Nerur, S., Balijepally, V., and Moe, N. B., (2012). A Decade of Agile Methodologies: Towards Explaining Agile Software Development. Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 85, pp. 1213-1221.
Wohlin, C. (2021). Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?. Information and Software Technology, 133, 106514.
Yin, R. K. (2011). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods. 6th Eds. Sage.