This week
we were supposed to have two lectures and no seminar. Unfortunately the lecture
by Haibo Li was moved to the week after. We had one lecture with Eva-Lotta
Sallnäs Pysander on the theme haptics and collaborative research.
I thought
that she would speak more general about research design, but instead she was
focusing a lot on her earlier studies using haptics and collaborative research.
She was also speaking about qualitative studies. She was saying that the best
thing is to use both qualitative and quantitative research when conducting a
study. It also depends on what topic to explore and how much research there
already is in the research area. If the topic is like a white spot with no or
few earlier research the best thing is to do a lot of qualitative studies.
I think we
learned a lot of interesting things about haptics and collaborative research as
well. First, I can see that there is a lot of benefits with doing collaborative
research. With a collaborative setting, the researcher will get a lot of “free”
qualitative answers from the participants due to the discussions among the
participants. This means that the researcher can get a lot of information
without question a specific question and in this way get unexpected answers.
Secondly, I
learned a lot about how to use haptic in research. What was most inspiring was
the connection between haptics and media technology. For example, the fact that
haptic feedback increases the virtual presence can be used when doing research
on telepresence production.
It is going
to be interesting to hear Haibo Li´s lecture next Monday to get a broader
picture about design research.
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