Focusing on the themes above with the competencies of the Val IT research group gives a number of interesting research questions addressing value creation with the help of IT. Examples of such are;

• How do we assess the quality of a set of systems requirements?

• How do we compare/measure faculty research output across disciplinary traditions and boundaries?

• How user pattern recognition (emergence behavior) help in defining problem definition?

• How user configuration helps to create a value for new innovation?

• How do we manage emergent systems requirements?

• How do dominant stories (e.g. techno-economic paradigms) co-construct with design of digital technologies?

• How inequalities (power relations, stratifications, tensions) interact with sustainable development?

• How different actors interconnect different values with digital technology?

• Why a user (only alternative, additional experienced value)?

• Usability versus useworthiness related to values?

• How do practices of IT use, design and production contribute to sustainable lives and societies?

• How scales can be used in creating perceptions of measurements?

• How can values be conceptualized as something enacted in practices in various contexts?

• What are the power issues in those enactments?

• How to support decision modeling for sustainability in for example the transport sector?

• How do desires and intentions turn into measurable entities in e.g. policy making and systems design?

• Who are the hidden actors in the longer networks of information technologies?