DESIGN RESEARCH METHODOLOGY - PROJECT 1 / RESEARCH PROPOSAL

7.08.2023 - 13.12.2023 / (Week 2 - Week 14)
Michael Chan Henn Loong / 0363611
Design Research Methodology / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Project 1 / Research Proposal

 

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INSTRUCTIONS

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ASSIGNMENT

ASSIGNMENT 1: PROPOSAL

ASSIGNMENT 2: CRITICAL REVIEW

ASSIGNMENT 3: PRIMARY DATA

ASSIGNMENT 4: RESEARCH REFLECTION REPORT

PRESENTATION SIMPLIFIED SLIDES

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FINAL SUBMISSION

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FEEDBACK 

Week 3 -

• -Problem statement is a longer writing that further explains about your research problem. 
• -Problem is not too wide and it is should be doable in this semester.
• -Give a more specific example -its not about how can designer can ensure, but how can these features be consistent 
• -Not how designer works but more about the design features 
• -Not looking at a negative problem but just to understand how the consistency and accessibility features -"why is it important" , "How can it be achieved" , "how does that creates a personalized experience for gamers"

Week 4 -

• Did not show progress

Week 5 -

• Public Holiday

Week 6 - 

• -Focus on visuals 
• -To identify similarities & differences between website UI & PC UI 
• -Look into players engagement of pc platform influenced by the UI design 
• -How does a specific UI of a game makes it more interesting for the players.
• -Why is UI design important for engagement of players. 
• -Slides are too technical try making it more general more visuals

Week 7 -

• -Change the Files name to the assigned name 
• -Leave out the second question 
• -Relate back the objectives to the questions
• -If doing interview prepare properly and show Ms. Jinchi 
• -Have a backup method for interview 
• -Focused group can be the forefront 
• -To make it more effective the method can be run 2-3 rounds with different people. 
• -Prepare questions that are more open minded look at the behaviours and response of participants and also see how they interact with the case study. 
• -Transcripts are to made after the sessions

Week 8 - 

• Independent Learning week

Week 9 - 

• Absent 

Week 10 -

• - Start the focus groups soon 
• - Plan the venues and questions properly 
• - Make sure everything is planned properly

Week 11 - 

• Absent

Week 12 - 

• Absent

Week 13 - 

• Did not show progress

Week 14 - 

• Make sure the grammars are right one objective no S
• RES all capital
• Make sure the slides have a spot for the recording of own face no overlapping
• Change the videos name to NAME_Recorded Presentation_RES60604
• 8 mins maximum for recorded presentation
• Briefly explain why participants are chosen

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REFLECTIONS

Reflection is found at the end of the full set of slides.

EXPERIENCE:

This module is pretty different from the other modules that I’m working on this semester.This module is more to in depth research instead of the designing and stuff that I normally have for my other classes. It’s my first time doing research like this for that I noticed that how deep and detailed can a research really goes and with different methods comes different results.

This whole assignment took us 14 weeks to finish up everything as we need to decide what topics are we going to do then we need to look up for articles and read it up to create our own proposal. Truth to be told reading up the articles was nothing fun to do.

OBSERVATION:

I noticed that some specific topic or theme will take longer time to find the suitable article for their proposal as not a lot of related articles are written and so I needed to look for something similar and try to extract points and ideas from the article. I’ve also noticed that focus group sessions would be easier to carry out compared to interview sessions, and with focus group sessions participants can act more freely and casually without being restrained by the rules and regulations of interviewing sessions.

FINDINGS:

I’ve found out that Focus groups and interviews are two different methods that can be carried out in researches. Focus groups are more friendlier I would say and it can be more casual as for interview mails are required to be sent out to ask for permission of a single professional participant and without a good mail, misunderstandings might happen. 

Other than that I’ve also learned on how to use the citations in this module, at first it was quite confusing for a new learner like me but throughout the process Im starting to get the gist of it and with a good article we can also branch out from their reference list to get more related articles for ideas and knowledge.