Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date:  Wednesday, 19 March 2003
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Title:   An Information Systems Perspective on
         Computer Science Research Methods


Speaker: Dr Roger Clarke (Visiting Fellow, ANU DCS)

URL:     http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/Res/ResCS030319.html
Slides:  http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/Res/ResCS030319.ppt


Abstract:
  The discipline of computer science has well-established research
  traditions.  But a meta-literature that explains and discusses computer
  science research methods is difficult to find.

  The rather younger information systems discipline has worked very hard
  to build up a literature on research methods, and has drawn heavily on
  the social sciences in doing so.

  This seminar presents a brisk overview of research traditions within the
  social sciences, and then attempts a taxonomy of research methods in
  computer science.  It is hoped that this might result in discussions
  within the Department, and the discovery of some literature on the topic.

  Two resources underlying the presentation are:

  -  Appropriate Research Methods for Electronic Commerce
     http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/ResMeth.html

  -  The syllabus of a course on business research
     http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/Res/InvIndex.html


Biography: 
  Roger Clarke was Reader in Information Systems in ANU's Department of
  Commerce 1984-95, and has been a Visiting Fellow in DCS since returning
  to consultancy in 1995.  In that role, he has co-supervised several
  Honours theses, and offered a dozen seminars on eCommerce topics.

  He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, in the
  MSc(ECOM) Program within the Department of CSIS.  In January 2003, he
  presented a 25-hour introductory seminar on research methods to new PhD
  candidates at the European Business School near Frankfurt.


URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030319