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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/

Responses on other peoples postings on my blog:

Theme 1

Stefan 30 oktober 2012 07:37

IEEE publishes many journals, and also conference proceedings, of high quality, especially in more technical areas. The impact factor is quite high, at least for being a media technology journal. It is interesting that you publish "important" and "seminal" research... :) Did you feel that the content of the journal met these ambitions?

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?

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.

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.
 

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?

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.