I really liked the whole concept of theme five as I
felt like it would be really useful for future projects, especially the master
thesis. I did not have the opportunity to be present at Eva-Lotta’s lecture,
but at least I made it to see Haibo.
Haibo’s lecture felt very connected to his paper and
questions posed as a part of the task in regard to theme five. During the
lecture Haibo talked about design research, which he defined as turning an idea
into a prototype. The whole concept was
summarized in fem steps:
·
Come up with an
idea
·
Filter ideas,
and select the best one
·
Validate the
idea (proof of concept)
·
Evaluate the
idea (prototype)
·
Present the idea
The thing which I reflected upon the most was the use
of a prototype. After having read the texts I figured it was an important
concept, but the lecture made me view it like something completely necessary,
at least within the discipline of media technology, as it is a very convenient way
of gathering information.
Hi,
SvaraRaderaI agree with you that Haibo's lecture is align with theme 5. I really like the presentation he conduct in this seminar. I believe prototyping is one of important process when developing an idea into something worth in the future. However Haibo's do not explain further more about the limitation of this prototype when building a research. Of course, if we want to do business, then the prototype must reflect the real product in the future, so it must have a complete function on the prototype. However, if we only research on particular fuction, then I think it is not needed to build a whole system. For example, in the paper wrote by Haibo Li, it proposes a haptic system to turn your mobile into the ball to rendering live football. In this paper, he only show the prototype on haptic system and simulated "match". The study of the football video analysis is not mentioned in this paper, because it is another research on a different basis. So, I think prototype can be a part of a whole system, and it is depending on the hypothesis we create at the beginning of the research.
Hi Johan!
SvaraRaderaI also liked Haibo’s lecture because you got a deeper understanding of the questions you answered regarding that theme. I also think you got a deeper understanding because we have read the research Habio and his colleagues had written and you could easily apply his reflections from the lecture to his paper. But the difference between his lecture and Eva-Lotta’s was that Haibo focused more on the basic’s for designing a research while Eva-Lotta focused more on her own earlier research. I also think that prototyping in an important step in research design because a prototype is actually the only practical equipment one can evaluate to decide if a research is a good idea or not.
Keep up the good work and good luck with upcoming studies! /Hannah
Hello, good reflection you have there. The use of prototypes have many advantages when you want to make a study of any kind, however, depending on the nature of the investigation to determine the feasibility of using prototyping. I find many advantages but also disadvantages in the use of prototypes; the major disadvantages I find is that in some cases, but a prototype is done with just some features intended for the final product, Prototype users may lose reliability in the product because they only can notice the ones that the prototype have.
SvaraRaderaIsaac Rondon
Hello,
SvaraRaderaGood reflections around Haibos lecture. What i found most central though was the part where we as engineers have to spend more time on defining the problem. Often it feels like we as engineers spend too little time defining the problem in comparison to the time we spend on problem-solving. Therefore we are often left with complicated and timeconsuming problems which could be solved in a better and more efficient way.
Keep up the good work!