Seminar: Design Theorizing Individual Information Systems

13 June 2011, LUISS Guido Carli, viale Romania, room 403

An individual information system is an activity system in which individual persons, according to idiosyncratic needs and preferences, perform processes and activities using information, technology, and other resources to produce informational products and/or services for themselves or others.  These small information systems have evolved with increasing complexity around the increasing computing power available to individuals.  This presentation proposes a model of premises for theorizing the design activity in these individual systems.  The model is grounded on previous research related to such systems.

Richard L. Baskerville is a Board of Advisors Professor of Information Systems and past chairman in the Department of Computer Information Systems, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University.  His research specializes in security of information systems, methods of information systems design and development, and the interaction of information systems and organizations.  His interest in methods extends to qualitative research methods.  Baskerville is the author of Designing Information Systems Security (J. Wiley) and more than 200 articles in scholarly journals, professional magazines, and edited books.  He is Editor-in-Chief for The European Journal of Information Systems and serves on the editorial boards of Business & Information Systems Engineering (Wirtschaftsinformatik),TheInformation Systems Journal, Journal of Information Systems Security, and the International Journal of E-Collaboration.  A Chartered Engineer, Baskerville holds degrees from the University of Maryland (B.S. summa cum laude, Management), and the London School of Economics, University of London (M.Sc., Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, Ph.D., Systems Analysis).