Kunthika Macharoensak – Theme 1 Knowledge
I read
about your article in your previous posting and I'm curious about what your
group thought about the 4C guidelines during the seminar? Did you talk anything
about what you thought about the accuracy of the mapping of social networks
onto this model?
Sandra Alvarez Hindskog – Theme 2
I also find
your article interesting and it is a very current topic to discuss. I'm curious
about what kind of online communities the researchers tried their model on?
Maybe the level of participation is different depending on what community is
looked at?
Fernanda Curcio – Theme 2: Theory
Fernanda, I
like this post of yours. I remember this theme being one of the hardest once
for me to grasp and fully understand, and so I find your analysis of the theory
concept to be helpful. I wish we had had more time to actually discuss
differences of how theory is used and defined in our different fields since a
lot of students in this class don’t come from an engineering background. It's
interesting that you did your thesis in social communication and I believe that
I as an engineer major could learn a lot about methods and theory approaches
from your field.
Miriam Gauffin – Theme 3
"We
used mixed research when writing our bachelor thesis and should have read more
about how to do use it". I found that this was the case for a lot of people
while doing their bachelor thesis. Even though I didn't write mine at KTH i
still feel that we didn't have enough background knowledge about these things
going into the project. Maybe this course should be given either at the same
time as the thesis or the semester before.
Nicole Deandres – Reflection on Theme 3
"I have taken online classes since
high school and throughout my undergraduate studies and I have enjoyed them
immensely". Part of my bachelor thesis was on the topic back-channel
systems in a physical classroom and how these could also be used in online
courses (since they are getting more and more popular in our digital society)
and so I'm really curious about what you more specifically enjoyed with them,
because I haven't attended as many online courses that I can determine this
myself.
Sepehr Amoor Pour - Theme 4
”This article
sounded really interesting and different from a lot of the articles that we
have read in the class. It would be interesting to not only try and reconstruct
the study but to also look at other big audience events and see if the
conclusion (a heavily scripted crowd) is the same for these events as well.”
Fredrik Rosengren – Theme 4
“The
article that you read sounds really interesting and
animation/visualization/graphics are my interest subjects as well. It's a good
thing that they had master students evaluating the proposals that the Ph.D.
students suggested, but I'm also curious to know if the software that they are
developing (and testing) is suppose to be used by "normal" people and
not only computer science students. If this is the case maybe it would had been
good if they also tried the system on non- computer science students.”
Cheatana Rithy - Pre-Theme 4: Qualitative Research Method
As Diana
mentioned in her comment I'm also wondering about what effect on the study the
subjective opinion of the participants played in the results. I'm also curious
about how many people participated in the study?
Marina Blinovska – Theme 5
I have a
question regarding the paper that you read. You mentioned that they had a
hypothesis about the results ("that touch screens contribute to the
improvement of the usability of an e-reading device and the sensitivity of a
touch screen has a positive influence on the usability") but I'm curious
to know what conclusion they got from the study, and also what they compared it
to – non-touch screens?
Beau Brown Armstrong – Theme 5: Pre-Seminar
I like your
description of the importance of prototypes in design technology research.
However, I feel that your description: "The role played by this prototype
as well as Dr. Li's are universally important in this field of research by
providing the foundation of further study of previously theoretical ideas
enacted through the prototype" isn't only applicable for design research
but all kinds of prototypes in other research areas as well, would you agree?
Chen Wang - Design research: Pillows as Adaptive Interfaces in Ambient Environments
Hi Chen,
The article sounds really creative and the technology innovative. I briefly read through it since you didn't put so much about the technology of the pillow in your post. There are even more applications for a pillow. Check out the "PillowTalk" - project which is developed at the MIT media lab. http://obm.media.mit.edu/
The article sounds really creative and the technology innovative. I briefly read through it since you didn't put so much about the technology of the pillow in your post. There are even more applications for a pillow. Check out the "PillowTalk" - project which is developed at the MIT media lab. http://obm.media.mit.edu/
Responses on other peoples postings on my blog:
Theme 1
Stefan 30 oktober 2012 07:37
Susanne Forchheimer 30 oktober 2012 16:34
The comment about the journal as being "important"
and "seminal" is something that they've put in their description
themselves. However from the little experience that I have with the journal I
find it very interesting and up to date with important research.
Concerning the specific paper that read the conclusion wasn't so much a specific "result" of some sort of study but more a reasoning conclusion regarding the topic and why the topic is interesting to look at and why, and this I think that the authors backed up quite well.
Concerning the specific paper that read the conclusion wasn't so much a specific "result" of some sort of study but more a reasoning conclusion regarding the topic and why the topic is interesting to look at and why, and this I think that the authors backed up quite well.
Theme 2
Diana Imamgaiazova 2 november 2012 12:02
Susanne,
I like your example with Fanta, it was really demonstrative.
I was also quite curious about your article, so I've glanced through it. I hope you meant this article, just to be sure: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~ct/pub_files/Aigner08TimeVis.pdf
I wonder why you believe that EP theory is used there, not theory for action and design, since it is an empirical study with a great practical value/recommendations?
I'm not much competent in the visual analysis field so it is interesting to hear how you engineering student assess the paper.
I like your example with Fanta, it was really demonstrative.
I was also quite curious about your article, so I've glanced through it. I hope you meant this article, just to be sure: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~ct/pub_files/Aigner08TimeVis.pdf
I wonder why you believe that EP theory is used there, not theory for action and design, since it is an empirical study with a great practical value/recommendations?
I'm not much competent in the visual analysis field so it is interesting to hear how you engineering student assess the paper.
Susanne Forchheimer 6 november 2012 13:52
Diana, If you go back in my text you can see that i did
chose action and design theory according to Gregor's model, since I did find
this theory type to be closest to what the article was discussing.
By the way, what is your major?
By the way, what is your major?
Theme 5
G ee 29 november
2012 08:00
do you agree
with haibo li that it is that easy to develop a great idea? You just have to
follow the "masterplan" and that's all? I think it is always
difficult to put the big word "idea" in a box, I mean especially in
the fast internet world it sometimes only takes a thought to create something
new with a lot of value. What do you think, do you agree with haibo li?
Susanne Forchheimer 29 november
2012 08:36
I don't think
that Haibo meant that it's easy to come up with a "great idea" just
concrete methods on how to approach the task of coming up with one. I remember
that he talked about a great idea s a "billion dollar idea" - and
those don't come around that often, I guess not even for him ;). I do however
agree with him that there are different steps to help in the way, like
evaluating an idea and determine the feasibility etc.
The paper seems interesting as a background/overview. Often, it is argued that research papers should have been written in a systematic way and that they should be trustworthy (reliable) (that the reader should be able to trust the conclusions etc.). Did you feel that the authors had evidence to back up their claims?