Abstract 

Design Science Research is a research approach that emerged from Herbert Simon’s distinction between natural and artificial sciences.  Artificial phenomena are those that are influenced and molded by human activity and therefore are not easily modelled by universal laws.  

DSR is predicated on the belief that science involving these artificial phenomena should be undertaken through the identification of reallife problems and the development of artefacts and constructs that may address these problems.   

Such artificial artefacts should be developed and conceptualized through iterative processes of generating alternatives and testing them against continuously changing utility requirements and constraints.  

The use of DSR aims to develop artefact or construct based solutions for identified problems rather than just produce explanatory theories about an existing technological reality.   

In the Information Systems (IS) discipline, this represents a significant evolution from quantitative deductive research approaches (e.g. theories of planned behavior, quantitative surveys, etc.) and competing qualitative inductive approaches (e.g. grounded theory, critical research, ethnography, etc.).   

This often partisan dichotomy led to fracturing discussions in the discipline and to a certain extent a slowing down in its development as a key emergent discipline.   

This lecture will discuss the value of IS as an engine for socio-technical innovation through the development of emerging theories that abstract the situated use of technological artefacts in a societal reality obsessed with technology and rapid fading trends. 

设计科学研究是一种研究路径，源于赫伯特·西蒙对自然科学和人工科学的区分。人工现象会容易被人类行为影响和塑造，因此不容易被普遍规律所模拟。 

基于以上原理，基于人工现象的科学应该从现实生活问题的识别、人工制品和构造的开发，来着手解决这些问题。 

针对不断变化的实用需求和限制，这类人工制品只有通过生成替代品和测试它，才能得以开发和概念化。 

设计科学研究的使用，旨在针对已识别的问题来开发人工制品和构造，而不是仅对现有的技术现实提供解释理论。 

在信息系统学科领域中，这就代表和促进了定量演绎研究方法（如计划行为理论、定量问卷等）和与之相争的定性归纳法（如扎根理论、批判性研究、民族志等）的重大演变。 

事实上，上述研究方法的绝对二分法，导致了信息系统学科内部讨论的破裂，也在某种程度上减缓了它成为一门关键新兴学科的发展。 

本次讲座旨在，解释技术至上和技术快速迭代的社会现实下技术人工制品的真实使用，以及讨论该新兴理论的发展下信息系统赋能社会技术创新的价值。 

Speaker 

Professor Miguel Baptista Nunes is Dean of the School of Internet of Things at Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University’s Entrepreneur College in Taicang.  Prior to this appointment, Miguel was the Dean of the School of Information Management at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.  Miguel was also the chair of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the iSchools movement from 2018 to 2020; the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) from 2017 to 2018.  Before SYSU and from 2015-2017, Miguel was a National High-end Foreign Expert at the School of Information Resources Management of the Renmin University of China, sponsored by the Chinese State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. In addition to his achievements in administration and research, Miguel was selected as one of the top ten "My Favorite Foreign Teachers in China" in 2019, National award sponsored by the Foreign Talent Research Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology.  Prior to this recent Chinese professional experience, Miguel was at the Information School of the University of Sheffield in the UK for 23 years, 20 of those as a permanent member of academic staff, where he led the development of teaching & learning and research in the Information Systems discipline, with a keen perspective on the resolving bottlenecks and taking opportunity of cutting-edge trends in the discipline. 

Miguel Baptista Nunes（龙乐思）教授是西浦创业家学院（太仓）物联网学院的院长，曾任中山大学信息管理学院院长。2018年至2020年期间，担任iSchools联盟亚太地区主席。2017年至2018年期间，担任信息科学与技术协会（ASIS&T）亚太地区主席。2015年至2017年期间，由国家外专局特聘为中国人民大学信息资源管理学院“高端外国专家”。除上述科学研究和行政管理的成就，龙乐思教授还入选了2019年度科技部外国人才研究中心主办的全国“我最喜爱的外教”前十强。来华工作之前，龙乐思教授在英国谢菲尔德大学信息学院任职23年（具有终身教职的20人之一），他领导该院信息系统学科的教学和科研发展，在解决学科的瓶颈问题和把握学科的前沿趋势方面具有敏锐的视角。