DESIGN RESEARCH METHODOLOGY - RESEARCH PROPOSAL
DESIGN RESEARCH METHODOLOGY - RESEARCH PROPOSAL
24/08/20 - 21/09/20 (Week 1 - Week 5)
Chan Jing Wen (0340480)
Design Research Methodology
Research Proposal
LECTURE NOTES
LECTURE 1 : Briefing, What is Research?
13/04/20 (Week 1)
Dr Noorhayati and Dr Jinchi introduced themselves as our lecturer. After going through the MIB, we were given another 2 documents to read on :
Basically for this module, it will be broken down into 4 stages.
1. Research Proposal
- We will have to choose a topic that we're interested in and is related to our specialization. Once that's done, we have to do our research on the topic and brainstorm a research problem, following with research objectives and so on.
2. Critical Review
- We have to read at least 7 articles that all must be by scholars.
- The purpose of us doing this is to train our ability to look at the relation between the research problem we set and the research we found.
3. Primary Data
- We'll have to conduct interviews, experiments, survey, any method that can help us collect our data to support our research.
4. Research Report and Presentation
- They will give us a time frame later on
- We will present our research journey through the entire 14 weeks, our experience, our decisions, our research.
- The grading of this presentation will be : 10% on our verbal presentation, 10% visual presentation, 15% for our report and everything written, 5% progress which includes our participation in classes.
To communicate well for this module, we'll be using several platforms :
1. Progress Update Sheet
- For us to jot down every feedback we received on our progression.
- We can check on it and update it so it would help us to keep track on what to improve on as well as how we can write our blogs.
2. E-portfolio
- Same as always, we'll need 4 different posts for the 4 different stages
- Our lecturers will be referring to this as well to check our updates.
3. Telegram
- We can dm our lecturers during weekdays before 6pm if we have any questions regarding our assignments and all.
4. Microsoft Team
- We'll use it for our online lectures.
Tips :
- keep in mind the intercultural proposal
- start reading during the first week
For our research, it doesn't have to be something that we must solve at the end of the day, just choose 1 topic that we are interested in, that we have enquiry about, and start looking into it. We can propose new ideas to improve certain design, conceptual ideas. Our research problem is not a problem, it's just something that we would like to find out.
We have to make sure to draw the line between design and psychology. I don't really know how exactly but will try to work on this. Dr Noorhayati also mentioned about ethics of a designer but I didn't quite get what she had to say about that topic, but I'm guessing that all in all we just have to focus on how design impacts something instead of the psychology behind it??? I don't really know where the line is to it haha.
31/08/20 (Week 2)
There's no class today as it's a public holiday. So, we had to go through the slides and learn from the recorded lectures. Below are the week 2 lecture materials :
07/09/20 (Week 3)
14/09/20 (Week 4)
For this week's lecture, we were briefed on how to efficiently find resource for our research by the librarian.
INSTRUCTIONS
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Week 1 (24/08/20)
Week 2 (31/08/20)
I feel like the research topic I chose might not be relevant and it was a bit hard for me to elaborate more on since I really didn't know how to search research papers online. On Friday (04/09/20), there was a water shortage in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. As I wanted to get updates about the situation, I downloaded Air Selangor. I noticed that the layout was really bad, so it sparked my interest in shifting my research topic to this. I wanted to focus on how government mobile applications should be informational and provide assistance to anyone living in Malaysia (not just Malaysians). The problems I found were that there wasn't any information hierarchy in it so it was hard to find the information needed. Another thing is that I chose English as the language but a lot of the updates were still in Malay. I felt like this government application shouldn't only be targeted to Malaysians as there might be foreigners in Selangor area also. It would be hard for them to understand anything if they don't understand Malay.
This is the proposal I prepared. I didn't have time to do the problem statement for my new topic but i tried to include everything else.
Week 3 (07/09/20)
After speaking to Dr. Hayati, I started doing more research on the second topic. I noticed that it was really hard for me to actually find resource on the exact topic that I want, but I went through a few research based on the keywords that Dr. Hayati suggested. In the end, I actually gave up on doing something related to Air Selangor because it's too new, and I also shifted from government mobile applications to e-health mobile applications, specifically on COVID-19. I felt like it would be good as there were many mobile applications created because of this issue and I saw that most of the research pointed out that there were areas to improve on for the functionality of these applications.
Below is my updated Research Proposal:
Week 4 (14/09/20)
I sent the above version of my research proposal to Dr Hayati to get her feedback again as I still felt really confused. Dr Hayati made a lot of comments on how I can improved my proposal to help me refine it even more.
She also stated that I will need to update my progression sheet as well as work on the final submission.
With that, I worked on my research proposal again and below is my final research proposal:
FEEDBACK
Week 3 (07/09/20)
Can try comparing how mobile apps were informational and more user friendly for Covid-19 updates compared to the air Selangor. Can focus on the controversy between water pollution and Covid-19 in Selangor. Can also compare how other countries handled their application. Keywords to use in finding research paper: user benefit mobile application Covid-19.
Week 4 (14/09/20)
My whole research was based on Covid-19, which I shouldn't have limit it to just that. The E-health Mobile Application was also a bit too broad. I should try comparing the mobile applications such as Air Selangor and MySejahtera instead of referring to reviews and all.
Week 4 (19/09/20)
Research Theme is fine, but it's confusing with the research topic. The topic should be UI Design in Government Mobile Application, and my Research theme is social design.
Research Problem doesn't seem like an issue. The challenge of designing a good government mobile application, lack of sensitivity in integrating between UI and UX design for government mobile application.
Hypothesis need to rethink. Supposingly, it's something that I want to challenge, whether the results is negative/positive. For example, I can have a hypothesis like mobile applications should be downloaded by smart phone users as a mean to get updated information or attention to UI and UX Design will increase more users of government mobile applications.
It's good to use an application as a bench mark. However, the problem statement is not sharper and I should reread the second lecture. The diagram and comparison isn't needed at this stage. I have to rethink and rephrase my problem statement. I haven't answered what I want to do for this research, I should try to relate it back to UI UX Design for government mobile application.
For my Research question and objective, i will have to update my question and objective based on my updated proposal. Based on my research, not all of the government applications are bad, so I have to reposition my research question. It's not about the current problem. It's the matter of what elements make the mobile. It's not about what's the current problem, but as to what we can do to improve and contribute to the field we selected. To explore good design elements to provide good user interface design.
24/08/20 - 21/09/20 (Week 1 - Week 5)
Chan Jing Wen (0340480)
Design Research Methodology
Research Proposal
LECTURE NOTES
LECTURE 1 : Briefing, What is Research?
13/04/20 (Week 1)
Dr Noorhayati and Dr Jinchi introduced themselves as our lecturer. After going through the MIB, we were given another 2 documents to read on :
Basically for this module, it will be broken down into 4 stages.
1. Research Proposal
- We will have to choose a topic that we're interested in and is related to our specialization. Once that's done, we have to do our research on the topic and brainstorm a research problem, following with research objectives and so on.
2. Critical Review
- We have to read at least 7 articles that all must be by scholars.
- The purpose of us doing this is to train our ability to look at the relation between the research problem we set and the research we found.
3. Primary Data
- We'll have to conduct interviews, experiments, survey, any method that can help us collect our data to support our research.
4. Research Report and Presentation
- They will give us a time frame later on
- We will present our research journey through the entire 14 weeks, our experience, our decisions, our research.
- The grading of this presentation will be : 10% on our verbal presentation, 10% visual presentation, 15% for our report and everything written, 5% progress which includes our participation in classes.
To communicate well for this module, we'll be using several platforms :
1. Progress Update Sheet
- For us to jot down every feedback we received on our progression.
- We can check on it and update it so it would help us to keep track on what to improve on as well as how we can write our blogs.
2. E-portfolio
- Same as always, we'll need 4 different posts for the 4 different stages
- Our lecturers will be referring to this as well to check our updates.
3. Telegram
- We can dm our lecturers during weekdays before 6pm if we have any questions regarding our assignments and all.
4. Microsoft Team
- We'll use it for our online lectures.
Tips :
- keep in mind the intercultural proposal
- start reading during the first week
For our research, it doesn't have to be something that we must solve at the end of the day, just choose 1 topic that we are interested in, that we have enquiry about, and start looking into it. We can propose new ideas to improve certain design, conceptual ideas. Our research problem is not a problem, it's just something that we would like to find out.
We have to make sure to draw the line between design and psychology. I don't really know how exactly but will try to work on this. Dr Noorhayati also mentioned about ethics of a designer but I didn't quite get what she had to say about that topic, but I'm guessing that all in all we just have to focus on how design impacts something instead of the psychology behind it??? I don't really know where the line is to it haha.
31/08/20 (Week 2)
There's no class today as it's a public holiday. So, we had to go through the slides and learn from the recorded lectures. Below are the week 2 lecture materials :
07/09/20 (Week 3)
14/09/20 (Week 4)
For this week's lecture, we were briefed on how to efficiently find resource for our research by the librarian.
INSTRUCTIONS
RESEARCH PROPOSAL
Week 1 (24/08/20)
Week 2 (31/08/20)
I feel like the research topic I chose might not be relevant and it was a bit hard for me to elaborate more on since I really didn't know how to search research papers online. On Friday (04/09/20), there was a water shortage in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. As I wanted to get updates about the situation, I downloaded Air Selangor. I noticed that the layout was really bad, so it sparked my interest in shifting my research topic to this. I wanted to focus on how government mobile applications should be informational and provide assistance to anyone living in Malaysia (not just Malaysians). The problems I found were that there wasn't any information hierarchy in it so it was hard to find the information needed. Another thing is that I chose English as the language but a lot of the updates were still in Malay. I felt like this government application shouldn't only be targeted to Malaysians as there might be foreigners in Selangor area also. It would be hard for them to understand anything if they don't understand Malay.
This is the proposal I prepared. I didn't have time to do the problem statement for my new topic but i tried to include everything else.
Week 3 (07/09/20)
After speaking to Dr. Hayati, I started doing more research on the second topic. I noticed that it was really hard for me to actually find resource on the exact topic that I want, but I went through a few research based on the keywords that Dr. Hayati suggested. In the end, I actually gave up on doing something related to Air Selangor because it's too new, and I also shifted from government mobile applications to e-health mobile applications, specifically on COVID-19. I felt like it would be good as there were many mobile applications created because of this issue and I saw that most of the research pointed out that there were areas to improve on for the functionality of these applications.
Below is my updated Research Proposal:
Week 4 (14/09/20)
After my consultation in class, Dr Hayati said that my research shouldn't be on Covid-19 mobile applications and I should try doing comparisons between the government applications. She also felt like my topic was still really broad and I had to narrow it down more. I refined my research proposal based on Dr Hayati's feedback.
I sent the above version of my research proposal to Dr Hayati to get her feedback again as I still felt really confused. Dr Hayati made a lot of comments on how I can improved my proposal to help me refine it even more.
She also stated that I will need to update my progression sheet as well as work on the final submission.
With that, I worked on my research proposal again and below is my final research proposal:
FEEDBACK
Week 3 (07/09/20)
Can try comparing how mobile apps were informational and more user friendly for Covid-19 updates compared to the air Selangor. Can focus on the controversy between water pollution and Covid-19 in Selangor. Can also compare how other countries handled their application. Keywords to use in finding research paper: user benefit mobile application Covid-19.
Week 4 (14/09/20)
My whole research was based on Covid-19, which I shouldn't have limit it to just that. The E-health Mobile Application was also a bit too broad. I should try comparing the mobile applications such as Air Selangor and MySejahtera instead of referring to reviews and all.
Week 4 (19/09/20)
Research Theme is fine, but it's confusing with the research topic. The topic should be UI Design in Government Mobile Application, and my Research theme is social design.
Research Problem doesn't seem like an issue. The challenge of designing a good government mobile application, lack of sensitivity in integrating between UI and UX design for government mobile application.
Hypothesis need to rethink. Supposingly, it's something that I want to challenge, whether the results is negative/positive. For example, I can have a hypothesis like mobile applications should be downloaded by smart phone users as a mean to get updated information or attention to UI and UX Design will increase more users of government mobile applications.
It's good to use an application as a bench mark. However, the problem statement is not sharper and I should reread the second lecture. The diagram and comparison isn't needed at this stage. I have to rethink and rephrase my problem statement. I haven't answered what I want to do for this research, I should try to relate it back to UI UX Design for government mobile application.
For my Research question and objective, i will have to update my question and objective based on my updated proposal. Based on my research, not all of the government applications are bad, so I have to reposition my research question. It's not about the current problem. It's the matter of what elements make the mobile. It's not about what's the current problem, but as to what we can do to improve and contribute to the field we selected. To explore good design elements to provide good user interface design.
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