Final post
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Reflection:
I commented
mostly on my own blog posts. At first I did not plan to comment on anything.
But I felt like I had to respond to the comments other people gave on my blog
with somewhat good answers.
When this
course first started I was a little skeptic about the content of the course. I
though the course was going to be about research in media technology and but
the lectures were about philosophy. While I think philosophy is interesting I doubted
the real world implications what we learnt would have. In my first blog
postings I tried stated that I least learnt some English reading comprehension.
I realize now that the facts that I learned
during the first lectures was not the important, the important thing is the way
of thinking with criticism and not take everything for granted or what other
people say they are, I should think for myself basically.
I very much
like the layout of this course. With requirements and tasks to do both before
and after the lecture it ensures that both that the student will come well
prepared to the lectures and seminars, but also pay attention to the lectures
and reflect on things as they happened rather than perhaps waiting until the
exam is closing in to start paying attention. I like how the seminars were like
a recap on what we learned during the week, hearing some of what you learnt
again, as well as clearing out thing that was unclear I believe will result in
students remembering the topics better and also help laying the whole puzzle so
to speak, once you understand what the whole puzzle looks like it is easier to
remember the picture.
I like how
we got to choose for ourselves what we wanted to read before the seminars. I
can see that it can lead to difficulties discussing too many different
researches on one seminar, but with the blogs and all this turned out to work
out well. As we got to choose the topics for ourselves I believe that the
students puts more effort into the tasks related to them as they find the topics
more exiting (one is likely to choose a research they think will be interesting
to read).
I also liked
the workshops were the students were divided into small subgroups to compete
against each other. This was very exciting and I believe if the seminars are
exiting people will learn more.
I think the
course should have focused more on actual research studies during the lectures.
It would be nice if along with presenting the methods some done research was
presented to illustrate how they made the method conform to their study.
Eva-Lotta had a lecture like this where she focused a lot on her own studies.
While I think this was interesting I had unfortunately already read her course
in haptic and were familiar to all the researches she presented. It would also
be nice if the course focused more on not only what research methods are available
but also how one should think when performing a study of their own and choosing
to work with some of these methods. I know it might not be in the span of this
course but I would like to learn more about how one performs an actual study.
Perhaps something I will learn in a future course, at least I have knowledge
about the basic methodology.
Combining
everything we learnt about ways of critically thinking with the knowledge about
research methods and the experience of reading different media technology
research studies I learned a lot in this course. Depending on what you are
investigating a different approach will always be used, different methods and
different ways of thinking will be used.
In Haibos
lecture we learnt that one should spend a lot of time thinking about the
problem. In the case of research studies this can mean; what do we want to get
out of the study or what do we want to investigate? It is first after you
thought about those questions you can start planning how the actual research
will be conducted, what methods will be used and so on.
For example
when doing something simple like investigating how users feel about this new
application to Android one can have many methods and different questions to be
answered. Is it vital that we know how users interact with the application? Is
it the functionality of the application that we want to test? Do we want to
investigate whether this new function is going to be useful for some groups of
people? Questions like these needs to be answered beforehand in order to begin
planning on what research method we want to use to get answers to our
questions. Perhaps a user evaluation with several participants might be handy,
or perhaps a beta test. Perhaps it is only necessary to study other similar
applications and critique about these. Perhaps we need to investigate how
useful some of these functions are in order to tune down the messy layout by
removing some of them.
I feel like i will bring a lot of the knowledge I
gained in this course to my future investigations. I have not done my bachelor
thesis yet but I will most likely do a research on eye tracking in games. I
will remember what I learnt during this course and use it to improve my
research
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