Muratovski, G. (2016) Research for Designers: A Guide to Methods and Practice.
Chap 4: Qualitative Research READ Sections 4.1, 4.3, 4.6-9 Chap 5: Quantitative Research READ All sections Based on the class poll, we do the following user study subject assignments for our user study next week. If you are not able to recruit subjects locally to work with you next week, please let me know!! Project Team #1 -- HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (2) Samiha, Yvonne, Christine, Leroy Project Team #2 -- HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS (2) Cory, Aliya, Anya Project Team #3 -- HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS (2) Emily, Natalya, Edward Project Team #4 -- HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (2) Hugh, Anne, Maddie, Jinny
LeRoy Gary
4/12/2016 01:31:56
The two chapters considered were introductions to research, namely qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research has to do with non-numerical or sparse data and questions where quantitative research is all about discrete, easily measurable aspects. Quantitative research can, more or less, be broken down into interviews, surveys, and other fairly easy to roll out data collection strategies. Qualitative research has to do with much more immersive techniques. Both have the intentions of solving a problem, coming up with concise questions, or finding links in data.
Madeline Duque
4/12/2016 02:08:55
Qualitative Analysis covers research that you have no solid metric for. Ordinarily, when one conducts research that is not qualitative, you need some kind of metric that a number can be assigned to that is relevant to the research question. For example, you can research “How does X change the temperature of Y?” because temperature is depicted as numerical, one can analyze the numbers and conduct research that way. However, it’s very difficult to assign numbers to research questions related to the field of learning media methods. Previously, we saw in the sustained learning interest article that the researchers quantitatively measured Luis’ growth by counting how many technical terms he used in his vocabulary as he was explaining what he was doing to the researchers. This is Quantitative research. However, in addition they also conducted interviews with his family. This is more qualitative. Qualitative Research involves evaluation, description, interpretation, or verification. These actions are mostly done with words. Ethnographic Research is research involving groups of people, which obviously makes sense for studying learning habits. Ethnography involves creating a scientific depiction of the customs of groups of people, which can include social interactions, beliefs, perceptions, teams, organizations, and communities. Grounded Theory is a method of induction that involves first collecting a ton of data related to your research question, and then developing a new theory based on your issue. This way, you can come up with categories and systems for your issue by making use of the collected data. In general, this method is a little more quantitative, but can be applied generally. Because of the extremely rigorous nature of Grounded Theory, the reading recommends that this methodology be applied within academia: a university, a research center research, or anywhere within a PhD level environment. The data collection itself is very flexible, which is the point of this methodology. One simply collects as much data (rigorously) as they can, then synthesize the data into segments so that one can start looking for commonalities. From these commonalities, one can then begin to derive categories from the data. From those categories, you can then come up with more stern metrics for your research issue. The categories and interconnections that you constructed then can be made into a kind of “storyline” that describes the mechanics of the process. This storyline will finally yield your theory. Quantitative research is probably the most well-known methodology for research. This form of research is different from qualitative research in that it is more geared towards the collection of numbers instead of verbal data. Because the data is numeric, it can be easily verified.
Christine Kwon
4/12/2016 02:36:05
The two chapter dives into the two different types of research: qualitative and quantitative research. Qualitative research is used when there is little information on your topic and the variables are unknown. It was also listed as a way to formulate general research problems and the many frameworks of qualitative research: case studies, ethnographic research, historical research, and grounded theory. While ethnography is studying groups of people by observing their lives, grounded theory is gathering data and basing a consensus after the data. In particular, ethnography has many levels that have to be taken seriously. An ethnography research has to have communication, certain levels of integration, and concerns the duration of the study. Grounded theory emphasizes the data collection and the official reporting.
Edward Bai
4/12/2016 02:50:43
The readings from Muratovski talk about the design process, particularly the stage of research. Research can be split into two categories; qualitative and quantitative. He goes into the various types of way qualitative research and data collection can be done, but in the interest of our class we focus on ethnographic research and grounded theory. Ethnographic research is the approach where designers step into the culture and are on the setting. They interact with those in that group of interest and integrate themselves so that they can observe behavior and qualities without intruding too much which would break the natural scene and diverge from natural behavior. Grounded theory is a method in which the researcher collects data and tries to piece together some sort of meaning through it. Doing this method requires the researcher to be well versed in many fields to try to understand various data points and trends, and what these behaviors can mean or imply. Then on the other side of it is the quantitative side of research. This one people may be more familiar with in terms of statistics. As the name implies, the primary focus of this type of research is to get tangible usable numbers to represent the studies and have some meaning.
Aliya Blackwood
4/12/2016 03:48:23
Muratovski explains the different types and benefits of research for the sake of design. He introduces the processes of qualitative research, and its subcategories of ethnographic research, grounded theory research, as well as quantitative research, which includes surveys, User-centered design research, Which is a specific type of experimental research. 142 research is quite open-ended and is based entirely on interpretations of data, it also leaves room for many perspectives and requires a lot of planning and previous research a similar topic. qualitative research allows the researcher To explore the nature of certain situations, settings, processes, relationships, systems, or people. it can deal with complex issues and is great for working with contemporary problems. Quantitative research on the other hand is used for generating statistics rather than building theories. the sista sticks allow the researcher to describe phenomenon or identify relationships between variables. this allows little room for subjective interpretation and requires and understanding of statistical practices. quantitative research can be done through naturalistic observations or structured observations through experiments. Within These studies the scientific method is often used and the quantitative data is more readable for clientele.
Anne Kim
4/12/2016 08:02:10
Qualitative research is used when there’s little descriptive information available on a particular topic; it’s based on open-ended questions, so it’s difficult to identify exact methods needed for studies ahead of time.
Samiha Dawalbhakta
4/12/2016 09:45:13
As the field of design develops and gets more and more complex, designers need to find different ways of research to help their designs be successful. In Muratovski’s book “Research for Designers,” two of the chapters talk about two different methods for research: qualitative and quantitative. Comments are closed.
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