TY  - THES
A3  - Wulf, Volker
AB  - Collaborative research between scientists from public research institutions with actors from civil society, such as practitioners, entrepreneurs, or domain-specific experts, has become ubiquitous in design-oriented research due to several reasons. On the one hand, applied-oriented research methodologies postulate the need for cooperation with practitioners during the evaluation of innovative artifacts in order to address stakeholder-relevant problems. On the other hand, as a precondition for funding of research proposals, both German and European funding policy demands on the involvement of entrepreneurs, end users or domain experts, to foster technical innovations with a sustainable potential for change in specific social domains.
Even though it pervades several areas of applied science disciplines, there is a fundamental lack of empirical knowledge to both inform and guide researchers on how the claim of cooperation can be concretely operationalized in research. How cooperative research processes constitute over time, and how early research phases of applied technology research can be managed adequately (phases such as problem definition and analysis, the exploration of alternative technical solutions in context of technical and practical feasibility), are not addressed by rather abstract research methodologies. Such recommendations would be very valuable to guide researchers in understanding, researching, and managing joint research projects.
In this dissertation an explorative study is presented that looks deeply into the collaboration work of a three years joint research project focused on developing an innovative navigation tool for reconnaissance missions of firefighters using ad-hoc deployable sensor-networks. The “Landmarke” project was one out of seven joint research projects of the so called “technology networks” of the Civil Security research programme, funded by the federal ministry of education and research of Germany between 2008 and 2011. The empirical interrogation of 60 hours of audio and video recordings provide access to the inner workings of project work among actors from a wide-range of professional backgrounds, such as scientists from several research institutions, firefighting practitioners and members of a firefighting training center; as well as entrepreneurs from different companies.
This study identifies by the case of Landmarke the role of anticipations in design-oriented research practice. Anticipations have an epistemological value in informing decisions in collaborative design and evaluation of technical artifacts. The epistemological value of anticipations is grounded in how well anticipations are informed by experience, and how anticipations are justified by intersubjective transparent assessments. 
In the case of Landmarke, the reflections around firefighting practices to identify problems, and the introduction of technical artifacts to address navigation problems were closely intertwined. Collaborative reflections on navigation practice justified technical designs to support navigation. Collaborative evaluations of artefacts allowed firefighting practitioners to reflect navigation tactics on possible problems. This not only helped in moving forward the project, but also helped industry partners, scientists, and firefighters identifying the potential of the Landmarke technology as a promising tool way beyond supporting navigation.
AU  - Dyrks, Tobias
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.25819/ubsi/9940
KW  - Antizipation
KW  - Dialog
KW  - Praxis
KW  - Technik
KW  - Innovation
KW  - Anticipation
KW  - Dialogue
KW  - Practice
KW  - Technology
LA  - ger
PY  - 2020
TI  - Praxisrelevante Sicherheitsforschung? Zur Bedeutung von Antizipationen in praxisorientierter Verbundforschung
TT  - Practice-relevant security research? On the role of anticipations in practice-oriented collaborative research
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-19278
Y2  - 2024-12-26T20:51:50
ER  -