The use of focus groups in design science research

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 327-337

  Gibson, Marcus ^a   Arnott, David ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design science; Evaluation; Focus groups

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SCIENCE; EVALUATION; FOCUS GROUPS; GROUP-BASED; IS DESIGN; ORGANIZATIONAL PROBLEMS; RESEARCH APPROACH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCIENCES; RESEARCH;

DESIGN;

EID: 73349129157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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