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Design thinking for professionals
Published in Peter Joore, Guido Stompff, Jeroen van den Eijnde, Applied Design Research, 2022
Noblesse oblige: the study Educating professionals in design thinking is set up as a design research project. Design research combines research and design: the interpretation of the problem and creation of possible solutions. Unfortunately, design research is also a problematic union between two fundamentally different worlds, a subject that design theorists have been discussing for decades.91011 Research focuses on interpreting the existing situation (what is?). In contrast, design is focused on what does not yet exist, the future. And within that, design is imaging what is desired (what might be?) and designing plans to get there (what can be?).12 This difficult combination leads to many design researchers choosing one or the other. Either they choose research for design, with the emphasis on interpreting the existing situation as input for a design. Or they select research through design, with the emphasis on imaging the desired and creating and testing designs as input for research.
Learning composition and decomposition of a function with a realistic mathematics education approach for senior high school students
Published in Yuli Rahmawati, Peter Charles Taylor, Empowering Science and Mathematics for Global Competitiveness, 2019
F. Nisa, P. Deniyanti, P. Sari
This study uses design research methodology in class X IPS 1 of 99 Senior High School of Jakarta in the period 2017/2018. The steps of design research methodology include: (1) thought experiment (preparation and design phase); (2) teaching experiment; (3) retrospective analysis. In the preparation and design phase, an instructional local theory is composed, and also a learning trajectory hypothesis of the learning process, which perhaps happens in the teaching experiment phase. The teaching experiment phase is the implementation of instructional local theory and learning design. During this phase, the researcher records data by observing the students’ strategies and their understanding development. Then the data is analyzed in the retrospective analysis phase: does the learning trajectory hypothesis accord with the facts observed in the field?
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Published in Janet McDonnell, Peter Lloyd, Fraser Reid, Rachael Luck, Nigel Cross, About: Designing, 2009
This chapter investigates some conversational episodes in an architectural meeting (A1). The analysis adopts an interpretative approach to design research and is guided by a qualitative research strategy. Designing is conceived as a social, interactive, interpretative process. Sociological and sociolinguistic concepts and research results are deployed to analyse design conversation and designing in terms of contexts and frames. The aim of the analysis is to reconstruct how participants interactively construct meaning in the design process and to describe practices they employ in the process.
Designing and developing an accessible web-based assistive technology for students with visual impairment
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Tuğba Kamalı-Arslantaş, Soner Yıldırım, Banu Altunay
A design-based research (DBR) framework with a qualitative approach was employed. DBR has been defined as “the study of learning in context through the systematic design and study of instructional strategies and tools” (Design Based Research Collective, 2003, p. 5). Both researchers and practitioners collaborate during the selection and creation process of the intervention (Anderson & Shattuck, 2012; Wang & Hannafin, 2005), with the primary goal being to find effective solutions to real-world problems (Amiel & Reeves, 2008). Design research is a dynamic and integrative process that is based on the needs of the research, with both qualitative and quantitative methods applied where appropriate (Bannan-Ritland, 2003). However, deciding on the appropriate research method requires a rather pragmatic philosophy (Anderson & Shattuck, 2012).
In Search for Design Elements: A New Perspective for Employing Ethnography in Human-Computer Interaction Design Research
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2021
In the design research community, the term design research implies an inquiry focused on producing a contribution of knowledge. However, in the HCI community and in the design practice community, the term design research “is generally used to refer to the upfront research practitioners do to ground, inform, and inspire their product development process” (Zimmerman et al., 2007, p. 2). In this article, I precisely refer to this latter sense with the term design research. In this perspective, design research encompasses a huge array of methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups. Among these, ethnography gained importance over the years for its capability of developing rich understandings of settings that have some relevance to design choices (Randall & Rouncefield, 2017).
Design-based research to broaden participation in pre-college engineering: research and practice of an interest-based engineering challenges framework
Published in European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
As one of the oldest existing professions, engineering and its practice has evolved along with the developments and needs of the civil society (Armytage 1961). Present-day engineering education stands at a juncture, where it is imperative for engineering educators to make changes to their practice in response to the needs of the society. There is a push by governments to produce a greater number of innovative engineers to solve worldwide problems such as hunger and infectious disease (UNESCO 2012; African Materials Science and Engineering Network n.d.; Engineers Australia 2013; IMPRINT India 2015; U.S. Department of Education 2015). Making engineering more inclusive for people of all backgrounds is central to fulfilling such needs. This paper presents an approach which has the potential of contributing toward both of the aforementioned needs. This paper details ongoing work on the testing and implementation of an interest-based engineering (IBEC) framework. The research follows a design research approach for introducing young people to engineering. Research findings and practical implementations of the framework from the past three years are reported. Design research as a methodology embodies one of the most important aspects of design, iteration, that provides opportunities for the researchers to perform multiple, cyclical research activities to answer the research questions. However, along with this opportunity, design research can be challenging to implement as it does not follow a single, linear model of design, test, and implement as many other research methodologies. Such a cyclical process can provide challenges in documenting and communicating the larger research study’s progress, as a design research study often has many sub studies along the way. With this paper, the research team not only presents findings from this continuously evolving study, but also the design and implementation of this design-based research roughly two years into a five-year study.