Hello all,
I just want to share my experience (so far) learning and experiencing about research and design research. We first had to learn research paradigms (foundation and philosophy of research) then move into domain of research (strategies, methods and tactics). This begins with basic definitions of research, inquiry, epistemology, ontology, methodology, paradigmatic assumptions and debates around these terms. Then we had compare different typologies of research paradigm (naturalistic vs. experimental or qualitative vs. quantitative, positivist vs social constructivist vs phenomenological etc.) This was first very hard task but then helped me a lot to understand the world of research from bird’s eye. At this phase I found these books very useful:
Crotty, M. (1998). The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective
in the Research Process. London: Sage.
Creswell, J. W. (2009). Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (3 Edition). Sage Publications.
Durbin, P. T. (1988). Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Greenwood Press.
Booth C.W. & Colomb, G.G. & Willams J.M. (2008). The craft of Research. University of Chicago Press.
If you want to have something more close to the design world I also suggest:
Groat, L. N., & Wang, D. (2002). Architectural research methods. Hoboken: Wiley.
Afterwards, we moved into more specifics.(What is quality, quantity, measurement, validity, credibility, variables etc. ) There is a long list of books and readings but these two books were very helpful for me.
Patton, M. Q. (2002). Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods. Newbury
Park: Sage.
Dean, A., & Voss, D. (2000).Design and Analysis of Experiments, New York: Springer
Going into even more specifics to methods and tactics. In my case I found these books very useful. (Note: You will see all books listed below is around usability, perception, human factors and user experience since these topics have been my research interest area for a while).
Tullis, T., & Albert, B., (2013). Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing and Presenting Usability Metrics.
Kuniavsky, M. (2003). Observing the user experience : a practitioner’s guide to user research. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Wilson, C., (2009). User Experience Re-Mastered. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Krueger, R.A., & Casey M.A. (2000). Focus Groups: A practical guide for applied research. SAGE
Hill, R. J., Osgood, C. E., Suci, G. J., & Tannenbaum, P. H. (1958). The Measurement of Meaning. American Sociological Review, 23(2), 227.
If you are person who likes to learn from examples I found this book useful:
Laural,. B. (2003). Design Research: Methods and Perspectives. The MIT Press.
I found books that has multiple design research methods (packed) are useful for beginners. I used them often in my undergraduate classes. However, in my opinion they generally miss key elements that makes a method “the method” (Theoretical bases and assumptions, then procedures, analysis and synthesis techniques and maybe best practices etc., subjects comes along with a method).
I just want to finished with what was advised me
“Engin, research is learnt while doing it” -Thanks Sharon!
Best
Engin Kapkın
> On Jun 18, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Charlotte Poupon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I've just found a review about Muratovsky's book and i wonder if those who read or may explain their own opinion about it. Because INDEED there is a huge difference between to search (for a solution) it to research (knowledge).
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> Thank you.
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> Review on french Amazon
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> I think that the author may confuse between the research and design method. All of the content that they wrote is the design method. The research method is different such as qualitative and quantitative method. We can look at the goal of research and design method. If the goal is to find the solution, artefact or product, it calls the design method. On the other hand, the research method goal is to proof the knowledge or generate a new knowledge.
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>> Le 18 juin 2017 à 10:25, Ali Ilhan <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> In my humble opinion, if there is no opportunity to take classes from
>> someone who knows what he/she is doing, best way to start is to read basic
>> social science research methods and then move to books written for
>> designers/by designers. Typically most design research methods are derived
>> from social science/humanities methods and sometimes they are watered down
>> versions of the originals. For example, both in qual. and quant. realms I
>> see designers (i am not talking about a non-academic setting) working with
>> much smaller Ns than what is typically suggested by social scientists.
>>
>> Then, once the basics are down, each method is a world in itself and needs
>> to be learned by either taking practicum classes or under someone's
>> tutorship. I keep emphasizing classes since most methods have a lot of
>> tacit details that cannot be learned only through reading (even in
>> mathematical modeling and statistics, which may seem very codified at first
>> glance, are full of tiny implicit "rules" like this). Good old
>> apprenticeship (and phd is in a way like this) is still the best way to go,
>> again in my opinion.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ali
>>
>>
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