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Table 1 Design Science Research activities and tasks to perform

From: How can information systems provide support to nurses’ hand hygiene performance? Using gamification and indoor location to improve hand hygiene awareness and reduce hospital infections

DSRM Activity

Method/Tasks

1. Diagnose of current situation and identification of problem relevance

Survey and observational time-and-motion study

2. Defining the objectives for a solution

HH moments and nurses ward behaviour analysis

3. Design and development

Design of the artifact

4. Demonstration

Preliminary experiments, simulations, field studies, focus groups

5. Evaluation

Analysis of activity 4’s results and focus groups

6. Communication

Done throughout the duration of the project, through journal or conference papers such as this.