Dear Ricardo,
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts.
I would like to see more quantitative studies in design research, but that
is wishful thinking. There are some areas such as design and visual
perception or design education that we can study using quantitative
methods. However, I think that not all scholarly design research needs
quantitative research methods. Methodological decisions come after defining
the research questions. Once we have the research questions, we can make
decisions about what are the best methods to study the stated research
problems.
I suggest we first discuss what the core design knowledge needs in design
research are. Then, we can discuss what the research methods that would be
better used to answer the questions are.
We can use again examples of health sciences, in which quantitative methods
are dominant. The University of Minnesota lists some topics (see:
https://www.health.umn.edu/research/research-topics), for example
*Addiction: We're working to get at the root causes of addiction, along
with advancing treatment and prevention strategies.
*Aging: We’re responding to issues of the aging population by fostering
basic and applied research, education, and training.
*Cancer: We're home to a world-class, collaborative research environment
focused on the causes, detection, prevention, and treatment of cancer.
There may be both qualitative and quantitative studies on each topic. But
we can easily see that for the majority of issues more quantitative studies
are needed; for example, in the causes of cancer.
What would be the core research topics and the pressing research questions
we have in the field of design *if any*?
Best,
Mauricio
“Can quantitative analysis and inference studies support design research in
> the same way they have already been supporting Economics and other social
> sciences?”
> “What is the cause of so few design studies using mathematical support?
> Lack of support from statisticians? Absence of statistics-oriented
> advisors?”
> “Who have been successfully applying inferential or other statistical
> tools in design studies?”
> “What can they teach us about this approach?”
>
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Associate professor in design
PhD in Design and Creation program director
Universidad de Caldas, Colombia
https://co.linkedin.com/in/gmmejia
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