Can Playfulness Be Designed? Understanding Playful Design through Agency in Astroneer (2019)

Understanding Playful User Experience through Digital Games

It has been commonly acknowledged that the acceptance of a product depends on both its utilitarian and non-utilitarian properties. The non-utilitarian properties can elicit generally pleasurable and particularly playful experiences in the product’s users. Product design needs to improve the support of playful experiences in order to fit in with the users’ multi-faceted needs. However, designing...

Can Capacity Markets Be Designed by Democracy?

Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) are stakeholder-driven organizations where changes to rules or protocols go through a process of stakeholder approval. Based on interviews with PJM stakeholders, we observe the perception that the process is held up by specific coalitions. We use voting data from the PJM stakeholder process and a model of participatory decision-making to assess these s...

Agency Theory: Can it be Used to Strengthen IT Governance?

In recent years it has become questionable whether corporate boards are able to direct and control IT effectively. There seems to be a general lack of boardlevel information regarding IT which may lead to ineffective governance over it. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how this scenario relates to the agency problem and how agency theory may be used to offer a theoretical framework for a...

Can Design Science be Used for Design?

Design Science is currently much discussed in Information Systems research. In our analysis we distinguish two distinct threads in this discussion. The first thread is a meta-debate about the nature of IS research, and (in particular) how design work can properly be enacted as research. The second thread is a normative discussion of how design work should be conducted – important in a field whe...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?