Hello again! These are my reflections after the lecture with Eva-Lotta:
I hoped to get some more insight in the design-research theme from this week, but after the lecture with Eva-Lotta, I was a little disappointed. During the lecture, she mostly talked about her own studies very thoroughly and not so much about design-research in itself.
What I learned during the lecture is that it is good to use a qualitative method if you are studying a relatively new subject or area, because then you do not know so much from it before. You can also design your study as you like to get as much data as possible, and later one, you can interpret the data as well.
I also learned the expression “flaming”. It is a expression invented together with the technological and communication era/development. When people started to text and email each other a text could be taken in the wrong way by interpreting it wrong, which could easily lead to misunderstandings between the communicators. When you do not see a persons expression, tone of their voice, or bodily gestures/movement, it can be easy to be misunderstood. I do recognize myself in this situation, when texting someone, I always write a smiley in the end, so the other communicators will know, that I am not angry at them. I also think that it's why smartphones has the emotion icons “emojis” to prevent misunderstandings while texting. As a result of this, Eva-Lotta also talked about that the goal with haptic-research is “peace on earth”, so maybe the world became a little more peaceful, when the emotion icons were invented.
Peace on earth with emojis!
From the beginning, haptics was an individual performed task, but Eva-Lotta and her colleagues, started making haptics into a collaborative task. I think it was a good initiative, because today, you can perform almost everything with other people. For example games, communication, sports and so on. Everything has a potential to become a collaborative task. And as she wrote in her text "A haptic tool for group work about geometrical concepts engaging blind and sighted pupils." children found it more interesting to collaborate with others when performing a task, then doing it individually. She also talked about her own studies, and through them she realized when doing a collaborative study, one can get both qualitative, and quantitative data for free. I have not really reflected upon this before, but I think one downside could probably be that you get a lot of data to analyse. And which data should you include in your study and which data should you then exclude?
Hi Hannah,
SvaraRaderaI had the same problem as you during the lecture with Eva-Lotta. Of course it is interesting in a way to hear about her research but I already read the papers so it was more of a recap of that.
I don’t recall the expression flaming being used so I enjoyed reading about that in your blog (and actually learning something new).
Anyhow, keep up the good work!
Sofia
I liked how you wrote about the part on "flaming"! And I really enjoyed getting a word of the phenomena also! I have a lot of 50+ years on my Facebook which many of them don't seem to be so used with text messages, so then of course there is a lot of misunderstandings which can lead to "fights" when someone thinks the other person is being rude.. So I have seen it happen a lot but never known that it was "a thing".. :)
SvaraRaderaHaha, and I also thought it was funny that the goal of haptics was peace on earth! Although it actually makes sense in a way. Emoticons makes the world a little nicer, as well as it is increasing the learning and happiness of collaborative pupils in her research :)
Thank you for a good post! :)
I liked your part about flaming! Just like Sofia I don’t remember that expression from this lecture, but I think I have heard about it before. It’s interesting how many things you understand based only on a persons voice, and how much that shows when writing on the internet. It’s so much easier to think someone is angry when you can’t see them, and in this case emojis really help. I sometimes feel limited in situations when I feel that it’s unprofessional to use emojis because it is so easy to sound harsh whiteout them. On the other hand I sometimes use “happy” emojis when I’m really sarcastic or angry as well, and I guess in cases like that it’s even harder for people who have problem understanding sarcasm to know what I mean.
SvaraRaderaHey!
RaderaYeah I thought it was interesting to bring up the part about flaming because it was a new expression for me and it feels like a current "problem".
Haha maybe it would be better if it were developed more emojis that showed feelings like sarcasm as well :)
Hello! Good reflections!
SvaraRaderaI didn't really get the part that qualitative methods are better if one is researching a new subject or area. I guess this kind of makes sense since there probably is few participants to include in the research if it's a very new subject. In these cases where the subject is new - then the target group are probably very nished and few, therefore a quantitative method wouldn't be sufficient to really investigate the subject.
I also liked the part of "flamming". I've never heard it in this context before. For me "flamming" meant when people rage when playing computer games for example if it's a team game (but with strangers) and someone gets super mad because one of the team members are bad. However, I guess it is used in different contexts.
I also recognise myself in your description of flamming as people misunderstanding each others' text because they can't see each others faces. I usually like to use exclamation marks because I think that dots seems so serious. But once, my friend thought I was angry at her because of my exclamation marks. Which is kind of funny because it was the opposite of what I want to with my exclamation marks. I guess everyone uses emojis or other punctuations marks differently.
Keep up the good work!
Hey! Now I learned something new about the expression "flamming" as well. As you said, it can probably be used in several different contexts :)
RaderaI also liked that you brought the expression up. Like you I feel the need to write emoticons when I talk to someone over the phone and a problem I often experience connected to the lack of them is when I talk "professionally" with people from work. It's considered unprofessional to write smileys to your boss and collegues, but often I think that my boss is angry or annoyed with me (or the other way round) just because pure text can be pretty harsh. So it's interesting how research can be done to ease communication between professionals too I think! :)
SvaraRadera