Theme 5: Design research
This week we were supposed to have two
lectures, and we had no seminar this week. One lecture got moved to
the week after so I have not been to it the moment I write this. The
first lecture was held by Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander and was mostly
about haptic collaborative research. I had already read Eva-Lottas
course in haptics so I was already familiar with the research she
talked about so unfortunately I did not learn much. She talked a
little about how you can combine quantitative and qualitative methods
to get the best possible output. This was kinda new to me even though
I had reflected on it earlier by reading the texts.
I was also familiar with all the 3
papers we were supposed to read. We went through many haptical
research projects in the haptics course before we did our own
project. I guess it was useful to read the text from more of a design
research perspective rather than a haptical (technological)
perspective. I got a lot of insight how a research can be conducted.
Hi Martin,
SvaraRaderaYou write that you have taken Eva-Lotta Sallnäs' unit in haptics earlier and therefor you where already familiar with her lecture and the article belonging to this week theme. I think it was very interesting to read that you can reflect on the content of this topic both from a design research perspective (in this unit) and from a technological perspective (the haptics unit). I wonder what you learned when combining these both perspectives?
Good reflection!
Hello Charlotte!
SvaraRaderaOn the haptics course we focused on the technological aspects when reading studies about hapic technologies. At the time i did not pay attention to how the actual studies were conducted, what methods of investigation, proof of concept etc. I focused on what problems you can solve with hapics and where you can use hapics as an assistance tool (i was particularly interested in hapic applications in games).
To make a good research study i believe that you need both the technological insight in the topic of research as well as knowledge about how a research is done and different methods of approach. If the hapics course focused on the technological perspective, this course focused on the research perspective. To make a research in hapics you need both of these.