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Dear Mauricio, You asked, What would be the core research topics and the pressing research questions we have in the field of design *if any*? I suggest one key design research focus that is mostly missing, central to professionalism in design, avoided by design researchers, and its absence compromises design and design resaearch to the core is (drum roll).... "Being able to predict the outcomes on the world from specific design choices." Depending on the specific circumstances, this may involve a lot of data or not very much. It might involve causal research or not. Regards, Terry == Dr Terence Love MICA, PMACM, MAISA, FDRS, AMIMechE Director Design Out Crime & CPTED Centre Perth, Western Australia [log in to unmask] www.designoutcrime.org +61 (0)4 3497 5848 == ORCID 0000-0002-2436-7566 -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of G. Mauricio Mejía Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2018 12:01 AM To: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Core research topics in design (was: Expanding the discussion about statistics and design) 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?” > -- G. Mauricio Mejía, MDes, PhD Associate professor in design PhD in Design and Creation program director Universidad de Caldas, Colombia https://co.linkedin.com/in/gmmejia -- -- La información aquí contenida es para uso exclusivo de la persona o entidad de destino. Está estrictamente prohibida su utilización, copia, descarga, distribución, modificación y/o reproducción total o parcial, sin el permiso expreso de la Universidad de Caldas, pues su contenido puede ser de carácter confidencial y/o contener material privilegiado. Si usted recibió esta información por error, por favor contacte al remitente o al correo electrónico [log in to unmask] , borre el material y por ningún motivo haga público su contenido. La Universidad de Caldas no es responsable por la información contenida en esta comunicación, el directo responsable es quien la firma o el autor de la misma." ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------