Introduction to the Minitrack on Advances in Design Science Research

This minitrack provides a venue for design science researchers (DSR) to share their work and interact with like-minded scholars.DSR is a prominent form of engaged scholarship, which combines inquiry with potential for action and intervention.DSR may be viewed as having three related subfields, from which we welcome submissions:• Science of design, which focuses on creating 'new-to-the-world' artifacts [1][2][3].We try to provide an outlet for researchers doing novel artifact-driven research in information systems, but also in other fields such as industrial engineering or service design.• Design theory studies, which focus on the development of theories and design principles concerned with creating new or improved systems based on kernel or grand theories [4-6].• Design Research focuses on studying how designers actually conduct design activities, e.g., the science of design research.Papers in this subfield could potentially come not only from IS but also from architecture and design studies.