Information Systems

The lines of research explored by the Information Systems Group are as follows:

Information Systems Development, Management and Governance. This is the line of research sitting closer to the group’s traditional interests in software engineering. It evolved to address the enterprise architecture as a whole, including business and socio-technical concerns associated with the selection, sourcing, deployment, integration, and management of the vast number of complex packaged software (such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems) that nowadays constitute organizational information systems. Typical research concerns in this field are: strategic analysis, business models, business processes, service-oriented architectures (SOA), IT governance (COBIT, ITIL), information systems integration, quality and information systems.

Participatory Media - Methodology and Technologies for online participation and collaboration. This line of work focuses on the design of interactive media supporting online participation, collaboration and learning. We follow a Design Research strategy, designing and prototyping interactive contexts supported on participatory media technologies such as massively multiplayer online games. We focus on technologies for collaborative and autonomous learning and our research concerns include information system development methodologies, human-computer interaction, digital games research, entertainment computing, and learning contexts. We have been working on a scalable peer-to-peer architecture enabling live editing and game play.

Learning Systems Design. This line of research is concerned with learning information systems models, architectures, and contexts, including contexts of technology-mediated chance discovery. Typical research concerns include: business models for e-learning, service-oriented learning architectures, learning contexts design, learner empowerment through technology, sustainable on-line collaboration and learning, quality assessment of e-learning systems, and technology-mediated chance discovery.

Information System Research Methods. This line of research cuts across the above three, engaging their members in shared methodological concerns. Action-Research and Design-Research have been the object of particular effort from the group in recent years, given their preferred role as research approaches in socio-technical information systems research.

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Group contacts:
Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra
Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal
Phone: +351.239.790.000   Fax: +351.239.701.266
Group Coordinator:
Paulo Rupino (rupino-at-dei-dot-uc-dot-pt)