All Outputs (12)

A framework for understanding information systems development (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding information systems development. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (224-264). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch006

Chapter 6: This chapter explores how Dooyeweerd’s philosophy might help us understand the challenges and issues in ISD as they are seen from an everyday perspective. The information system that is developed includes both the technical artefact or sy... Read More about A framework for understanding information systems development.

A framework for understanding the nature of computers and information (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding the nature of computers and information. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (174-223). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch005

Chapter 5: "What is a computer?" and "What is information?" are questions that the reflective user will sometimes ponder. These questions do not refer to what the computer means to us, subjectively (or intersubjectively) nor as enabling particular ap... Read More about A framework for understanding the nature of computers and information.

A framework for understanding human use of computers (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding human use of computers. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (120-173). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch004

Chapter 4: This chapter seeks to open it up further and explore how Dooyeweerd’s philosophy can be used to understand human use of computers (HUC) by exposing some of the challenges and issues therein and enable us to formulate a framework for unders... Read More about A framework for understanding human use of computers.

Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (62-118). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch003

Chapter 3: This chapter explains some portions of Dooyeweerd’s positive philosophy which author has found useful in understanding IS. It covers Dooyeweerd’s theory of modal spheres (aspects), his theory of things, his theory of knowing, experience an... Read More about Some portions of Dooyeweerd's positive philosophy.

A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology (2008)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2008). A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology. In A. Basden (Ed.), Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems (309-337). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-036-3.ch008

Information technology (IT) deeply influences the way we live, our assumptions, aspirations, expectations, habits -- our very life-and-world-views (LWVs). It has become an environment in which we live and work, a kind of ecology in which modern life... Read More about A framework for understanding Information Technology as ecology.

Dooyeweerdian philosophy, knowledge-based systems, and sustainability (2007)
Thesis
Jones, G. Dooyeweerdian philosophy, knowledge-based systems, and sustainability. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis explores using Dooyeweerdian philosophy as a foundation for
constructing knowledge-based system (KBS) in complex, ill-structured and
human intensive domains.
Dooyeweerd's transcendental philosophy is a relatively recent phenomenon in... Read More about Dooyeweerdian philosophy, knowledge-based systems, and sustainability.

Aspects of knowledge representation (2006)
Book Chapter
Basden, A. (2006). Aspects of knowledge representation. In S. Strijbos, & A. Basden (Eds.), In Search of an Integrative Vision of Technology: Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Systems (19-38). Kluwer/Springer

Multi-aspectual interview technique (M.A.I.T.) (2005)
Thesis
Kane, S. Multi-aspectual interview technique (M.A.I.T.). (Thesis). University of Salford

This is exploratory research which employs qualitative interview techniques that are
built on the foundation of Dooyeweerd's Aspects (1984), which is facilitated here by
the Multi-Aspectual Knowledge Elicitation (M.A.K.E) model (Winfield 2(00) and... Read More about Multi-aspectual interview technique (M.A.I.T.).

Multi-aspectual knowledge elicitation (2000)
Thesis
Winfield, M. Multi-aspectual knowledge elicitation. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

This work examines one of the major stumbling blocks of knowledge based systems
development, namely knowledge elicitation. The challenge is a fundamental one of
eliciting knowledge from domain experts including tacit knowledge.
This thesis argue... Read More about Multi-aspectual knowledge elicitation.

A critical study of the multiview methodology : a poststructuralist textual analysis of concepts in inquiry (1995)
Thesis
Watson, H. A critical study of the multiview methodology : a poststructuralist textual analysis of concepts in inquiry. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis considers the concept of information as meaning through the following research question:
how can we work critically with a tradition of information systems development methodologies?
Motivation for this derives from the way 'hard' metho... Read More about A critical study of the multiview methodology : a poststructuralist textual analysis of concepts in inquiry.

Towards an aspectual conception of trust
Thesis
McGibbon, S. (2019). Towards an aspectual conception of trust. (Thesis). University of Salford

The genesis of this research lies in the difficulty of modelling trust and its companion, trustworthiness. This need arose when the term trusted was introduced into the lexicon of system architecture as computer systems became firstly networked and t... Read More about Towards an aspectual conception of trust.

Using Dooyeweerd's aspects to understand down to earth issues in use of medical records
Thesis
Khojah, G. (in press). Using Dooyeweerd's aspects to understand down to earth issues in use of medical records. (Thesis). University of Salford

This research is about experience of using electronic medical records (EMR). Chapter 1
introduces and justifies the main research question “How can Down To Earth issues that are
important in uses of EMR be studied by using Dooyeweerd's aspects?”... Read More about Using Dooyeweerd's aspects to understand down to earth issues in use of medical records.