DESIGN RESEARCH METHODOLOGY / PROJECT 1-PROPOSAL
29.3.2021 -30.1.2021 (week 1 - week 4)
Phoebie Ng / 0341172 / Bachelor of creative media
Phoebie Ng / 0341172 / Bachelor of creative media
Design Research Methodology / Project 1-Proposal
LECTURE NOTES
week 1 (1.4.2021)
MIB notes
- before the class need to review the recorded video for lectures
- need to make sure all cams attendance is key in
- this module is preparing groundwork for next semester to write a dissertation
- this module require a lot of reading that is related to design
- always start from what u choose for the topic
- find material article related
- all submission is fall on Monday noon
- systematic and creative investigation into and study materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
- increase stock of knowledge
After selecting our field of interest/topic, we need to develop into further research
- write about research problem in the form of a statement
- research question that is derived from the research problem
- research objective that would like to be achieve, that need to be achieve in the research process
INSTRUCTIONS
fig 1.1 Module Information Booklet
TASK
In this module, we are required to choose the specialization that we are going to learn for the rest of our degree. On the first day, we have our sharing session with Mr. Kanan, Ms. Anis, and another lecturer that shares how is the specialized course is like.
fig 1.2 Proposal Draft 1
This week, since I had done my problem statement, I research more articles that could define children's age and how they react to mental health. I found out that actually, children would start to have anxiety during their primary school time. Therefore, I had adjusted my proposal topic specifically on anxiety. I also did some adjustments to my problem statement.
fig 1.3 Proposal Draft 2
This week, I had refined my proposal and rethink about my research problem and topic. Dr. Hayati also comments on some grammar mistakes in my proposal.
fig 1.4 Proposal Draft 3
This week is the deadline for our proposal that we need to submit our proposal in google classroom. We were also asked to create presentation slides on our proposal.
fig 1.5 Proposal Draft 4
fig 1.6 Proposal Draft 5
week 13 (4.7.2021)
This week, we were allowed to revised our proposal and resubmit it on google classroom again.
fig 1.7 Revised Proposal
FEEDBACK
week 1 (1.4.2021)
be specific on the topic of educate children
educate children could be board like social design, mental health is also one kind of educate, like culture, it's also another type of educate, you need to narrow it down
week 2 (7.4.2021)
mental health is too broad
Identify certain category in mental health especially for children
find definition for children
the behavior of children are different in different age group
might consider age that watch cartoon, narrow down the age group
go to that age group that have greater problem of identifying mental health
rationale is quite brief, when you write your rationale, must relate the issue.
try to find the newer resources to get the newest information
good research
week 3 (15.4.2021)
be specific on my topic research
rephrase topic research
rethink if the research problem should be creating character or educate children with anxiety
focus on anxiety
avoid place statement in research question
week 4 (21.4.2021)
stick to ‘primary school children’ order
always remember that you are a character designer but not a mass communication student while you are doing the proposal
try not to do things that you can’t achieve as you only have 10 weeks to do this.
try do things that you can achieve
rationale and problem statement might need a little bit changes as it has the small ball effect.
try not to include things that you are not sure as you are not a physiologist expert that you will not know.
use APA no.7 as references
REFLECTION
week 1 (31.3.2021)
Experience: Although this is the first week, we need to make the important decision on the day which I think about it a lot during my semester break. I like entertainment design and it is the only thing I think I will choose when I enter Taylor's University. As I am interested in it since I was in the foundation, I like to do character design, 3D modeling and digital painting and that's what my friend think I am good at it as well. However, I was interested in Graphic Design as well since I learned typography, and I enjoyed doing those illustrations that we need to do during the Information Design module. During our Intercultural Design, we did brand design in our final project which this makes me get more into graphic design's packaging design and brand design. And most importantly, I am used to it while I was using Illustrator, I think it's a bit sad if I will not be using illustrator in the future. However, I had made my decision to Entertainment Design, it's because I want to follow my heart at the beginning and that's what I wanted to do in the future. I hope I will not regret in this decision in the future.
Observation: While doing the research of mental health and its relationship with Entertainment Design, I observed how some of the mental health could be the cure or the patient could feel better while they are playing video games.
Finding: While doing research on my topic, I only notice that there are different types of games instead of just video games, there are serious games which they will design for educational purposes and more. There were also video games that help to improve a mental health problems. Designing games or looking at art also could help to make people feels better.
week 2 (7.4.2021)
Experience: In this week, I struggle with finding a research paper that related to my topic. It was hard to find and we need to find a proper research paper that we could trust the site. I am a little bit confused on what is the difference between my rationale and problem statement, but thanks to Jing Wen, she had clarified this for me. She is really helpful on my project as she checked my proposal grammar issues, which helped me a lot as my English is not that good.
Observation: I notice that while doing research, we need to make sure that we credit each of the information that we are taking from. we need to cite them correctly. I think it's pretty fair as we are some of their words. It's not that we rephrase the words and it's counted as mine. I always took plagiarism seriously as I wanted to make sure my work is original.
Finding: I notice that it is very important that we listen and watch the lecture videos, it helped me a lot, and thanks to Dr. Hayati for recording my session as I could refer back to what she said. During my research, I also found out that actually anxiety could happen in primary, which I feel sad for them because the age of primary should be having fun and happy. They shouldn't worry about things that they shouldn't worry about. I know that there are no ways for anxiety to stop completely, but I could at least do things that I could do to improve this.
week 3 (15.4.2021)
Experience: In this week, I am a little bit lost because I don't know is my proposal OK or not. I tried to rethink a lot about my topic and proposal to see if my idea could work.
Observation: I notice that while thinking about the proposal, and listen to Dr. Hayati's comment, I found that I still have a lot of grammar mistakes.
Finding: I found that while we are thinking about the proposal, we need to always remind ourselves that we are a designer but not a mass communication student.
week 4 (21.4.2021)
Experience: In this week, we have the library workshop to do, so we spent 2 hours learning how to do research 101 and Mendeley. I had learned a lot of things from that.
Observation: After I had done the workshop, I notice that there was something that I didn't know before about our school's online library.
Finding: As I had learned how to cite during my foundation as we did another workshop in our English module. However, there was also something for me to learn for example how to cite other people that were cited in the research paper that I found. This helped me a lot that I quickly change it in my proposal that I directly cite the person in the research paper.
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