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Discussion and evaluation<br />

personal data and complements the design artefact proposed by this study, where these<br />

aspects have not been prioritised. The service discovery capabilities <strong>of</strong> the PANP are<br />

further purely technical, and the citizen interaction with the framework is personal. The<br />

proposed design artefact extends a technical approach to support assisted service<br />

discovery, caretaker-roles and emergent processes composed by the service receiver,<br />

caretaker, or service provider.<br />

Variable<br />

Value<br />

Approach Qualitative Quantitative<br />

Artefact focus Technical Organisational Strategic<br />

Artefact type Construct Model Method Instantiation Theory<br />

Epistemology Positivism Interpretivism<br />

Function Knowledge Control Development Legitimization<br />

Method<br />

Action research Case study Field experiment Formal pro<strong>of</strong><br />

Controlled experiment Prototype Survey<br />

Object Artefact Artefact construction<br />

Ontology Realism Nominalism<br />

Perspective Economic Deployment Engineering Episemological<br />

Position Externally Internally<br />

Reference Point<br />

Artefact against research<br />

gap<br />

Artefact against real<br />

world<br />

Time Ex ante Ex post<br />

Research gap against<br />

real world<br />

Table 5 Artefact evaluation classified according to Cleven et al. (2009)<br />

The evaluation <strong>of</strong> the design artefact is further classified based on the framework<br />

proposed by Cleven et al. (2009) as illustrated by Table 5. The evaluation approach is<br />

qualitative and the main focus <strong>of</strong> the artefact is strategic, as it proposes a future design<br />

<strong>of</strong> strategic importance. The artefact type is a model and the epistemology is that <strong>of</strong><br />

positivism. As several separate evaluations have been performed, both through<br />

investigation <strong>of</strong> the knowledge base, the demonstrator (P9) and the case studies (P5, P6)<br />

the function <strong>of</strong> the evaluations is both for development and legitimisation <strong>of</strong> the<br />

artefact. The object <strong>of</strong> evaluation has been the artefact and the ontology is nominalism,<br />

as the e-service infrastructure and <strong>services</strong> are model representations <strong>of</strong> real world<br />

<strong>services</strong> and interactions. Even though deployment is not relevant based on the<br />

conceptual model, the issues related to the deployment and design towards a deployed<br />

artefact is the perspective <strong>of</strong> the evaluation. The evaluation has further been conducted<br />

internally in iterations against the requirements and design directions during the course<br />

<strong>of</strong> the study.<br />

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