Since we only had two lectures and no seminar this week, I’m going to write some about what was discussed on the first lecture and thoughts that came after. The theme of the week is “Design research” and prior to the lecture we read a paper where they developed a prototype that transformed a football game into vibration signals from a mobile phone. The thought behind this was so you could feel the soccer game instead of looking at a video stream. We also had to answer some questions about evaluation of technology and prototypes.
The lecture was evolving around the research idea. He talked about how you come up with a research idea by defining a problem, this is most important, and then solve this problem. Then he discussed how you choose what idea to realize if you have several ideas that you want to use. This is done by calculating if the idea can be realized and asking yourself if it’s a breakthrough technique. To validate your idea you can create a proof of concept.
I wished that he would have talked more about design research since the things he talked about wasn’t any news for me. But then usability and prototypes is something I’ve come in contact with in other courses. In media technology I think that design research is one of the more rewarding methods.
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