Information systems research and exploring social artifacts: approaches and methodologies / Pedro Isaias and Miguel Baptista Nunes

Includes index.

Chapter1. Online survey: best practice / Tomayess Issa -- Chapter2. eCommerce trust beliefs: examining the role of national culture / Regina Connolly -- Chapter3. Subject recommended samples: snowball sampling / Pedro Isaías, Sara Pífano, Paula Miranda -- Chapter4. Practically applying the technology acceptance model in information systems research / Reza Mojtahed, Guo Chao Peng -- Chapter5. Designing personalised learning resources for disabled students using an ontology-driven community of agents / Julius T. Nganji, Mike Brayshaw -- Chapter6. Taxonomy of IT intangible assets for public administration based on the electronic government maturity model in Uruguay / Helena Garbarino, Bruno Delgado, José Carrillo -- Chapter7. Online ethnographies / Hannakaisa Isomäki, Johanna Silvennoinen -- Chapter8. Grounded theory in practice: a discussion of cases in information systems research / Jorge Tiago Martins [and others] -- Chapter9. Creating interpretive space for engaged scholarship / Gabriel J. Costello, Brian Donnellan -- Chapter10. Exploring higher education students' technological identities using critical discourse analysis / Cheryl Brown, Mike Hart -- Chapter11. The role of case-based research in information technology and systems / Roger Blake, Steven Gordon, G. Shankaranarayanan -- Chapter12. Mapping participatory design methods to the cognitive process of creativity to facilitate requirements engineering / Nicky Sulmon [and others] -- Chapter13. Combining research paradigms to improve poor student performance / Roelien Goede, Estelle Taylor, Christoffel van Aardt -- Chapter14. Experiences in applying mixed-methods approach in information systems research / Guo Chao Alex Peng, Fenio Annansingh -- Chapter15. Examining Web 2.0 e-learning tools: mixed method classroom pilot / Janet L. Holland, Dusti Howell -- Chapter16. Evaluation of web accessibility: a combined method / Sergio Luján-Mora, Firas Masri -- Chapter17. Information systems evaluation: methodologies and practical case studies / Si Chen, Nor Mardziah Osman, Guo Chao Alex Peng -- Chapter18. Supporting unskilled people in manual tasks through haptic-based guidance / Mario Covarrubias [and others] -- Chapter19. Integrated methods for a user adapted usability evaluation / Junko Shirogane [and others] -- Chapter20. A protocol for evaluating mobile applications / Clare Martin, Derek Flood, Rachel Harrison .

Centered on the impact of information and communication technology in socio-technical environments and its support of human activity systems, the study of information systems remains a distinctive focus in the area of computer science research. This title discusses the approaches and methodologies currently being used in the field on information systems.