This week, Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander from the institution of HCI visited us and held a lecture about collaborative haptics. We were also suppose to have a lecture with Haibo Li but that one got cancelled and moved to next week instead. There was no seminar this week either.
I was excited to listen to Eva-Lotta and what she had to say about design research and the concept itself but unfortunately she focused most on her own studies about haptics. She began with some brief explanations about how a study can be constructed and that it is preferable to use both quantitative and qualitative methods in order to get the best output from it. Worth mentioning is that choice of method can depend on the extent of present research in the specific area.
However, even though she didn’t talk very much about the methods which we wrote about in the pre-reflections she had some interesting points and reflections from her earlier studies. The way a collaborative research regarding haptics can be performed was exciting to hear about. I really liked the assistive technology research that investigated how group work in school could be supported in order to make sure that the learning process is fair and equal for visually implied kids and the ones with sighted pupils. it was instructive to get it explained from an experienced researcher, how the selection of target group is made, which kind of people you should invite for the interviews and how haptics can be used in research. Another thing i learned from the lecture regarding collaborative researches is that it’s possible to get either qualitative or quantitative into the bargain. Since the participants of the research may come up with ideas or answers that never were discovered before, it could lead collaborative research into new perspectives.
Hey Mickey, Mickey hey!
SvaraRaderaThe thing a liked about her lecture was that even though she did not talk about the basics or the theory behind research design you still understood because it was applied to real research instead. Often when you listen to a lecture the lecturer speaks about theory, but not actually how to apply it later on real examples. That is why I think Haibo's and Eva-Lotta's lectures together complemented each other though Haibo tslked more about the basics in research design while Eva-Lotta talked more about her on research.
I thought it was cool when she showed us the example of people hand-wrestling with each other and not being in the same room (just a parentheses).
I also learned, as you mentioned, that one can gain both qualitative and quantitative data from a design research, which I think can be both positive and negative though you transcribe all the data it will take time. And maybe you will also get into another track then where you started because you gain a lot more "suprised" data then expected, which can both be positive and negative I guess. Great job with the reflection Micke!
Good luck with everything,
Hannah
Hello just like you, I expected the Eva-Lotta´s Lecture would focus more on research design, however, I believe that a different way of understanding these concepts is seeing an actual case where a research have been made using different methods. The research she conducted was a interesting topic and it was especially innovative. Something that could be seen as you mention, is how cooperative work can facilitate research and help it to get better results.
SvaraRaderaIsaac Rondon