23rd April 2024 - 28th July 2024 (Week 1 - Week 14)
Sin Jun Ming 0364638
Design Research Methodology / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media / Taylor's University
Final Compilation
INSTRUCTIONS
PDF of Final Report:
Presentation Video:
Feedback by lecturer (Ms. Anis)
Week 1
No feedback in the first week.
Week 2
Things needed to do:
- Find a research topic
- Identify the research problem and problem statement.
- State out research questions.
- Find related articles.
Week 3
Research topic that I have chosen is applicable and straight-forward.
Two of three research articles that I had given were too old, only
articles that have been established within 5 years are to be
considered.
Week 4
The update is good, can now proceed with critical review. After doing
the review, make sure to input Research Problems in the proposal.
Week 5
General feedback: Write critical review in paragraphs, not in point
form.
Week 6
I asked Ms. Anis about my first review of task 2. She said it is good
and I can continue doing the other two reviews.
Week 7
Ms. Anis checked on my three reviews this week, and it is all good to
be submitted.
Week 8
Independent learning week.
Week 9
General feedback:
For this week, we are required to share our:
- Selection of research methods relevant to our proposal
- Justify our selection based on the research questions
- A minimum of one method is expected for this assignment. However, where interviews are concerned, it is better to have a back-up method, e. g. focus group/questionnaire/observation
- Our plans on how to carry out the data collection
- What kind of analysis do us plan to get from the data collected
Specific feedback:
Good start, elaborate more on what the survey is, and how this can
help me to collect data.
Week 10
“Intro your name, what program you are studying etc. why you're doing
this etc. so people know that this is only for research purposes.”
This is the feedback by Ms. Anis on my first attempt at Google Form,
the introduction of my survey needs to be clearer.
Week 11
We can use platforms like Instagram or Facebook to share the Google
Form link to others.
Week 12
Follow the sample given by Ms. Anis to do the Task 3 document and do
primary data analysis, we need to submit it by 14th July, 2024.
Week 13
Follow the brief given earlier by Dr. Jinchi, start working on the
presentation slides and prepare for video presentation.
Week 14
Finalize the video and report this week and submit it by 28th July,
2024.
Reflection
Experience
From the beginning of this module, I had been learning the research
process for certain topics. For instance, from my topic - website
advertisement and user experience, it is best to use research methods
like survey questionnaires to collect data effectively. It was nice
that my lecturer, Ms. Anis guided us step-by-step for each task and
checked on my work immediately everytime I asked for feedback on my
tasks, this allowed me to refine on my work immediately after
receiving feedback from Ms. Anis, giving me enough time to do some
changes and make improvements before facing the next progress in the
following week. Other than that, the learning experience was fun as
for the every weeks’ class other than lectures from Dr. Jinchi, Ms.
Anis gave us opportunities to show work progress one-by-one in the
meeting to get real-time feedback. I think this enhances the
communication between the students and the lecturer as students can
ask for further feedback related to the topic or ask the lecturer to
further explain on the solution.
Observation
Throughout the module, there is something I had observed and I think
it is quite important in the learning process, that is the weekly
feedback session with the lecturer. For example, we have a tutorial
feedback form provided by the lecturers and we need to fill in the
feedback by the lecturer and progress done by students week-by-week. I
think this is a pretty good action to actually require students to ask
for feedback from their respective lecturer every week to track their
own working progress, I also think that this is pretty helpful to
those students that have procrastination problems. On the other hand,
the lecturers can aid us in finishing our work effectively and save
time if we get to show our work progress successfully every week
because if not, the work would be stacked week-by-week and at the end
the lecturer would have to review everything at the same time and the
student might need to redo the whole thing just because he or she did
something wrong at the beginning.
Findings
From this module so far, I have several findings regarding my research
topic. For example, from my research topic which is website
advertisement and user experience, I noticed how website
advertisements affect online users not only in their
information-seeking process, but also their user experience throughout
the process. For instance, from the data collected in my Google Form,
I noticed that most people think that online advertisements are
slowing down their information-seeking process while using online
browsers. Moreover, most people think that online advertisement is
slightly unacceptable in the online browsers, this shows that most
people dislike the presence of online ads. Furthermore, from the data
collected, I asked for user preference on different advertisement
designs, most respondents prefer simple design rather than complex
design that shows tons of information in one single online
advertisement. I believe this finding can aid people in creating
online advertisements to hit the online advertising strategy target to
generate revenue.
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