Hi Sarah,
You say,
<snip>"Our design-related research has been carried out first and foremost
to support a design process; academic publication has been a secondary goal.
Following up on this order of priority can result in decisions made underway
that might reduce the quality of the data seen from a publication point of
view. For one thing, you might change the intervention between two sets of
testing, thus making your data less rigorous (but resulting in a better
design)."<endsnip>
There is a very close connection between soundness of design decisions and
quality of information on which they are based. Quality of information is
usually tighltly linked to soundness of data collection and analysis, i.e
sound research practice.
This implies that if the design activity is regarded as sound, then the
research must have been sound. Hence, it would be publishable.
Or are you saying something different?
Best,
Terry
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