Herselman, Martha EBotha, Adèle2020-12-052020-12-052020-09Herselman, M.E. & Botha, A. 2020. Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective. In: South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologist (SAICSIT) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 14-16 September 2020978-1-4503-8847-4https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3410886.3410903https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3410886http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11691Copyright: 2020 Association for Computing Machinery. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website. The definitive version of the work is published in South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologist (SAICSIT) Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 14-16 September 2020The purpose of the paper is to identify minimum design element requirements from various Design Science Research (DSR) papers that have to be considered when applying the methodology. Then to demonstrate how these were addressed in various South African postgraduate studies. Applying this methodology allows for new opportunities for future needs. The focus will be to provide this from a South African perspective. The methodology applied in this paper to analyze the literature to determine the minimum list, as well as the studies, is a qualitative descriptive exploratory study. Relevant and recent papers on DSRM were identified that provided various concepts for the minimum design elements requirements and specifically selected South African postgraduate studies (five graduated PhDs from 2017-2020) were analyzed to determine if and how these address the requirements list. It was found that all of the studies did address the identified minimum design element requirements for it to be regarded as a DSRM study. During the findings, some challenges experienced by the students and from the literature support the minimum design elements requirements. New opportunities that emerged are multi- and transdisciplinary implementations of artefacts and allowing students to develop methodological dexterity.enDesign elementsDesign Science Research MethodologyDSRMSouth African postgraduate study examplesArticleHerselman, M. E., & Botha, A. (2020). Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11691Herselman, Martha E, and Adele Botha "Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective." (2020) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11691Herselman ME, Botha A. Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective. 2020; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11691.TY - Article AU - Herselman, Martha E AU - Botha, Adele AB - The purpose of the paper is to identify minimum design element requirements from various Design Science Research (DSR) papers that have to be considered when applying the methodology. Then to demonstrate how these were addressed in various South African postgraduate studies. Applying this methodology allows for new opportunities for future needs. The focus will be to provide this from a South African perspective. The methodology applied in this paper to analyze the literature to determine the minimum list, as well as the studies, is a qualitative descriptive exploratory study. Relevant and recent papers on DSRM were identified that provided various concepts for the minimum design elements requirements and specifically selected South African postgraduate studies (five graduated PhDs from 2017-2020) were analyzed to determine if and how these address the requirements list. It was found that all of the studies did address the identified minimum design element requirements for it to be regarded as a DSRM study. During the findings, some challenges experienced by the students and from the literature support the minimum design elements requirements. New opportunities that emerged are multi- and transdisciplinary implementations of artefacts and allowing students to develop methodological dexterity. DA - 2020-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Design elements KW - Design Science Research Methodology KW - DSRM KW - South African postgraduate study examples LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2020 SM - 978-1-4503-8847-4 T1 - Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective TI - Applying Design Science research as a methodology in post graduate studies: A South African perspective UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11691 ER -