Design Research Methodology | Proposal

Week 1 | Week  4

Mohamed Hammam Chebel (0342483) BDE's. Creative media (Hons)  

Design Research Methodology 

Proposal

Instructions 

Week 1 

Introduction | Briefing 

In today's face to face session we met Dr. Jinchi and Dr. Noorhayati, they went through the MIB and Explained all the assignments in detail so we can have a general idea about this module. 

The lecturers also provided some good advise that can improve our work flow during this semester.

We were briefed with the following information.

• Module outline & expectations 
• Module learning objectives
• Students’ responsibilities
• Assignments & assessment methods
• Discussion: Why is design research and
• writing important?
• Proposal briefing

For this week Dr. Jinchi explained how to obtain good research articles from the web, she suggested us to start reading from now in order to decide which topic are we going to choose. 

Week 2 

Online learning | Preparation for proposal draft

In this week I wen t through the recorded lecture and the slides, I also read all the reading materials and instructions available so I can get a better understanding of the task in hand, since this is my first time doing a research.

 

Fig 2.1 lecture 1

 

                                                                       Fig 2.2 Lecture 2

Week 3

Tutorial session | Feedback 

Feedback 

• key in citations in your problem statement and introduction
• Try to specify your field of research and make it narrower.
• make your research from a design perspective.
• make your research technical not descriptive.
• keep a general yes or no question to support your research or keep it as a background.

Week 4

Lecture | Feedback 

Today we had an online lecture on times portal about the methods used to make an academic research.

Feedback 

• Use only surnames in citations.
• Replace paragraph 1,2,3 of the Problem statement with paragraphs 1,2,3 from the rationale.
• pick two or three websites to analyse and study.
• reformulate the research questions.
• minimize the rationale.

My proposal before feedback 

Fig 4.1

Proposal before feedback

Final Proposal ready for submission

Fig 4.2 

Proposal Final

Feedback on final Proposal

• Research Theme: Missing from the proposal.

• Research Topic, Research Problem: Related to one another but the research problem would be more accurate if it is “Exploring colours used on websites to understand their interaction with web surfers.”

• Problem Statement: Your claim in the first sentence in the last paragraph is not substantiated. Omit it and begin with …”I decided to do this research…” 

• Citations: Must be in APA style.

• Research Objectives (ROs) & Research Questions (RQs): Relevant to the research problem.

• References: Has a few research articles but bibliography must be written in APA style.