Dear  all,

I happen to read this discussion after two days of vacation. I couldn't
have read this thread earlier in any case. Well I am somewhere close to
believing two things with due respect for everyone around.

First that things and discussion threads grow organically. The way things
turn out are, most of the times, very different from the way they were
conceived.
Second that internet though is an excellent medium to connect with people
but written word, in its own, has certain limitations. Though we are
connected but its sometimes hard to follow the gist of the written text.
I had expressed these points after going through this conversation and
similar others. I don't doubt the intentions of anyone contributing or
seeing or merely reading.

Coming back it seems that this thread started with the idea of sharing
research experiences which different researchers. I hope I am correct in
assuming so. These experiences are unique, insightful and interesting. So
when I read few initial experiences and could spot that there were hardly a
good number of such contributions, I thought of asking for the same to the
people in this list. I can't reason but felt hesitant in contributing my
own experience as I am still in my 2nd year. I felt that perhaps there is
more room to hear people with an entire experience. And I'm still excited
to know about all of those.

At my end I am pursuing investigations in the domain of Interaction Design
at IIT Bombay. Its 3rd now and I am figuring out approaches and directions
to keep things pacing up. I think my university is giving me enough time
and freedom in attempting to question things objectively and with a better
articulation. However I feel that design research is still evolving in
comparison to other disciplines. I observe this after interacting with
research scholars from other disciplines. They seem to have problem which
are better articulated. I personally invested a good time in understanding
the problem and framing it as a hypothesis. I don't know but  it seems that
it takes some time to get transformed from a practicing designer to a
researcher. I understand that I am not hinting at stereotypes but what I am
trying to suggest is the transformation itself. I do not know if others
have experiences similar transformations from their earlier roles to their
researcher's roles. May be we can begin sharing on these lines!

With thanks to everyone,
Abhishek



On 1 November 2012 23:56, Carma Gorman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Karen:
>
> I'll just mention, as regards the term "lurkers," that like Teena, I
> do not take it to have such negative connotations. I think Wikipedia's
> definition of a lurker is in this case more apt than
> Merriam-Webster's: "In Internet culture, a lurker is a person who
> reads discussions on a message board, newsgroup, chatroom, file
> sharing, social networking site, listening to people in VOIP calls
> such as Skype and Ventrilo or other interactive system, but rarely or
> never participates actively. Research indicates that "lurkers make up
> over 90% of online groups" (Nonnecke & Preece 2000)." (from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker).
>
> If you read further in the Wikipedia definition, you'll see that the
> term used to (and sometimes still does) have negative connotations,
> but I've used the term "lurkers" on this list before simply to refer
> to the roughly 2,000 subscribers who never or very rarely post. (Some
> of my best friends are lurkers!)
>
> Carma R. Gorman, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor, School of Art and Design
> Southern Illinois University Carbondale
> Associate Editor/Lead Reviews Editor, Design and Culture
>
> > On 02/11/2012, at 11:50 AM, Karen wrote:
> >> I came to read
> >> and feel that though you had encouraged Abhishek to contribute, I had
> read
> >> it to mean a negative hint to people who hibernated on the list.
> 'Lurkers'
> >> to me means people who sneak in 'knicked' off ideas off without
> contribution
> >> or in some ways fail to acknowledge contributors.
> >>
> >> Following the culture of most lists that would prefer a quoted
> definition
> >> from reference,  I will just pick one off from Merriam Webster that a
> >> 'lurker' is someone who 'lie in wait in a place of concealment
> especially
> >> for an evil purpose. b : to move furtively or inconspicuously etc' I
> believe
> >> most references will give more insight into who is a lurker.
>
>
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