Personal development through research

Personal development through research

At present, hobbies and values are becoming more diversified in Japan. Diversity also means dispersion: What does it really mean to the society? Although it appears to be a common phenomenon among advanced nations, the child population has markedly decreased, particularly in Japan, because of a declining birth rate, and the estimated average life expectancy is increasing almost every year, resu...

Outdoor Adventure Camps: Personal Development through Challenge

I Design; Therefore I Research: Revealing DBR through Personal Narrative

Design Based Research (DBR) is a new and still-emerging approach to research about design, learning, and allied areas. This article reports one designer’s experiences within a DBR project. Whereas most reports of DBR focus on the outcomes of the design itself, the current paper offers a hermeneutical perspective by focusing on the personal narrative of the designer. Using Edelson’s (2002) categ...

Design Science Research for Personal Knowledge Management System Development - Revisited

The article presents Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) as an overdue individualized as well as a collaborative approach for knowledge workers. Designing a PKM-supporting system, however, resembles a so-called “wicked” problem (ill-defined; incomplete, contradictory, changing requirements, complex interdependencies) where the information needed to understand the challenges depends on upon one’...

Design Science Research Championing Personal Knowledge Management System Development

Knowledge Management (KM) is governed by an ill-structured mishmash of complementing as well as conflicting interdisciplinary methodologies and based on physical and social technologies, which too often struggle to achieve their stakeholders’ objectives due to diverse scholarly contributions, repetitive polemic discourses, and misguided organizational KM system generations. A novel Personal Kno...