It is the premise of this position paper that a combination of design research and action research can be very useful for studying high performance designs. However, there has been a separation between the two approaches. A growing body of literature is recognizing these cross fertilization possibilities between AR and DR. Researchers argue for similarity between the two (J'rvinen 2007; Lee 2007; Figueiredo and Cunha 2007) as well as caution against fusion (Iivari 2007). Others suggest a middle ground stating that in some situations and contexts, the two may be integrated (Cole et al. 2005; Sein et al. 2007).
@InProceedings{rossi:DagSemProc.08412.6, author = {Rossi, Matti}, title = {{Action Design Research - An Integrative Research Method for Studying Design}}, booktitle = {Perspectives Workshop: Science of Design: High-Impact Requirements for Software-Intensive Systems}, pages = {1--3}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2009}, volume = {8412}, editor = {Matthias Jarke and Kalle Lyytinen and John Mylopoulos}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08412.6}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-19827}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.08412.6}, annote = {Keywords: Action research, Design research, Proactive research} }
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