Design Research Methodology / Project 1: Proposal

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31.3.2022 - 24.4.2022 (Week 1 - Week 4)
Britney Chow Pei Jun / 0350043 / BDCM
Design Research Methodology
Project 1: Research Proposal

JUMPLINKS

LECTURES

  • Notes were provided by Dr. Hayati and Dr. Jinchi.
Fig 1.1; Week 1 Lecture Notes;

Fig 1.2; Week 2 Lecture Notes; 

Fig 1.3; Week 3 Lecture Notes; 

INSTRUCTIONS


PROJECT 1: RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Research Proposal

In this assignment, we're required to make a proposal for our research. Basically what we needed to do is chose a specialization, think of a research topic of interest and proceed to write out rationale, research problem, research objectives and questions. I placed down the links that I think are useful for me. 
       
Fig 1.4; Proposal Draft 1; 

The above is my first proposal draft, as I'm not too sure as to what I wanted to do, however, I do know that I'm interested in game developing field. Hence, I thought that maybe I could go ahead and research about that department. 

Fig 1.5; Proposal in slides form;

After consultation with our lecturer, I proceed to change all the mentioned issues with my research proposal. Since the requirements for submission is a slide form, I proceeded to download a design that I think related to the theme from slidesgo. And I then moved my research proposal into the slides.

Final Project 1: Research Proposal

Fig 1.6; Project 1: Research Proposal in PDF; (23/4/2022)

FEEDBACKS

WEEK 1

General Feedbacks: Be sure to go through the materials given, and also read the Module Information Booklet so you don't miss out anything 

Specific Feedback: - 

WEEK 2

General Feedbacks: Don’t think like a “Mass Comm” student, try to think like a content creator.

Specific Feedback: My topic is too “Mass Comm” and was advised to turn it around, for example, instead of focusing on the negative impacts, why not gather the info given about it and think of a way to enhance the application.

WEEK 3

General Feedbacks: Be sure to update your progress sheet every week. Progress sheet should contain self-reflection and feedback from the lecturer.

Specific Feedback: There are many kinds of games, so you should define a kind of game so that the scope would be smaller. Different consoles will have different types of interactions, different types of engagement, for example, someone who plays VR and someone who plays with the wheel console is different. When talking about games, you cannot run away from either UI or UX. The UX is the engagement, but UI influences the UX, so the both of them are interrelated. Game players' loyalty depends on how immersive the game is. Once you find the articles' abstract relevant, we should then read the whole article.

WEEK 4

General Feedbacks: For the critical review part, do not use websites or blogs but use journal articles instead. For the submission of Project 1:Proposal, you need to hand it in a PPT PDF file, the deadline of it is 24 of April at 12pm. Submit it in Google Classroom. 

Specific Feedback: No class this week due to workshop session 

REFLECTIONS

WEEK 1

I was excited when beginning to this research as there are a lot of things that I do not know about the specialization that I’m interested in and thus, I went to look for articles and stuff, I feel quite awed by all the information and feel like there’s a lot of possibility in this. Even so, I wished to be able to do research on some intriguing topics. 

WEEK 2

I personally think that this part is quite hard since I do not have much of an idea on what I want to do exactly, and thus focus on something that’s more general. Plus, I find it a bit hard to know what exactly it means to be thinking like a content creator, and thus making me spend more time than needed on deciding on a topic since I’m very very hesitant when making decisions and also being very afraid of whether I’m doing it right or wrong. Furthermore, despite the fact I have been learning how to do research since in high school, I still find great difficulty in coming up with the problem statement and stuff. 

WEEK 3

This is hard. I feel like my brain isn’t working as hard as I want it to since I still couldn’t think of a perfect thing to write. I’m still clueless as to how to exactly find a research problem within the thing I’m interested in, or how to exactly write a good problem statement and find the right research questions and objectives because the ones I have in mind feel a bit too general? Furthermore, I feel like I wasn’t able to find really good information regarding the topic that I’m choosing and that really increases the difficulty for me because I do not know where else to look for it. 

WEEK 4

For this week’s class, we’re supposed to be doing the workshop provided by our school. I think that this is quite great as it teaches us on how to browse through Taylor’s resources and stuff and also teaches us how to cite the articles and stuff. However, I think it could be improved by not setting a limited time for it, or maybe not taking away the material or something, since students like me had a hard time trying to keep everything in my brain and thus would forget this and that. Sometimes I would wish to refer back to it, but then I couldn’t.
 

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