The actual writing-up aspect of the project has probably been the most useful part of the exercise because it has forced to filter down what I have resaerched to only the most useful parts. As I was writing the report it just suddenly became clear that the best way to explain the key aspects of [...]
Archive for the ‘Research Methods’ Category
Research – 27.05.08 – Conclusions
May 28, 2008
Research – 25.05.08 – Starting to come together
May 25, 2008
Over the past few days I have been focused on turning my research into phatic communication, tangible interfaces and technologies and projects associated with these things into a research project that is going to really benefit me as oppsed to just being an extra burden. To do this I had to really assess what [...]
Research – 18.05.08 – Phatic tangible devices
May 18, 2008
Over the past few days I have been investigating the major developments in tangible interfaces used for developed for “phatic communication”. This has been quite successful, certainly from an academic standpoint, though I have found it difficult to ascertain whether there have been any major developments in the commercial sector, though I think its doubtful [...]
Research – 15.05.08 – Tangibility
May 16, 2008
Over the past few days I have been researching tangible interfaces with particular reference to the different functions they can perform.
What has become apparent is that the majority of work in this area, especially in a commercial areana has been focused in two areas; personal support, which could be location based, i.e. navigation systems or [...]
Research – 13.05.08 – Planning Research
May 12, 2008
I felt I made some good progress with my own research planning today. Last week during the 20 minute research exercises we were doing in class I was feeling quite apathetic towards it, in the sense that I felt I partly knew the outcome – that google was an inefficient way of searching and [...]
Research – 08.05.08 – Getting started
May 8, 2008
Today was our first day in Unit 2.3 proper (yesterday – was just a bit of a stress – to be expected when forming groups). The theme of the day was based around managing research, and to be fair this is somewhere where I possibly lack certain skills or at least motivation so was there [...]
