Design alternatives for the evaluation of design science research artifacts

Within a consideration of cost effectiveness the evaluation of design science research artifacts is of major importance. In the past, a plenitude of approaches has been developed for this purpose – partly artifact-specific, partly artifact-neutral. Nonetheless, there is a lack of a comprehensive overview over existing methods as well as a systemization of those with regard to fundamental structuring criteria. The paper at hand surveys existing methods and introduces a framework that equally supports the designer and the user of artifact evaluation approaches. Subsequent to the embedding of the framework into the design science research process two exemplary application scenarios are described. Keywords design science research, evaluation, artifact, morphological analysis, framework

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: DESRIST
• Authors: Anne Cleven, Philipp Gubler, Kai M. Hüner
• Keywords: Artifact Evaluation Approaches, Design Science Research, DESRIST 2009, Education, Science Research Artifacts