Winter 2017 Course Schedule
Week 1
Thurs Jan 5 2017
Room: SUR 2990
Topic
No Class meeting this week. You should start required readings and look at Assignment 1. Come prepared for class next week to talk about topics under Week 2.
Required Reading
Read: Creswell, J.W. Research Design: Qual, Quant, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2013, 4th edition) Chapter 1 [this is the core text for course].
Extra: Read Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapter 1 [library reserve].
If this is your second research methods course, this material should be a review.
If this is your first research methods course, you should do all the readings in both Creswell (2013) and Creswell & Clark (2007).
Week 2
Thurs Jan 12
Topic
[1] Introduction
Overview of course and course work.The course covers topics in epistemology, research design, design based research and mixed method approaches. It is intended as a second or third research methods course and readings will be geared to this level.
Text: Creswell, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches, Sage, 2013, fourth edition.
Recommended: Creswell & Clark, Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research, Sage, 2007. [on reserve]
[2] Concepts in Design-based Research
Discussion of terms: paradigm, epistemology, ontology, methodology etc.
[3] Research proposal assignment — 1. Defining your Research Topic.
Required Reading
Prepare for Class: Research topic — have one. A topic of study usually involves specification of people (who?), doing some activity (what?), with a form of interactive technology (more what?) in a context (where?). For example, “My topic investigates designing to support children living in poverty (who), learning to self-regulate their emotions (activity/what), using an EEG headset and simple mind-full games on an adroid tablet (tech/more what), at the Nepal House Kaski school in Nepal (where). That’s the level of detail you are after. Come to class with a print out of your first try at a topic specification like this.
Research paradigms in HCI: Steve Harrison, Phoebe Sengers, and Deborah Tatar. 2011. Making epistemological trouble: Third-paradigm HCI as successor science. Interact. Comput. 23, 5 (September 2011), 385-392. DOI=10.1016/j.intcom.2011.03.005
Week 3
Thurs Jan 19
Topic
Paradigm Wars: Positivism vs. Constructivism and along came Pragmatism.
Measuring humans: Concepts, constructs and variables.
Research proposal — Assign 2. The Literature Review as a foundation for research design.
How to do an annotation.
Review assignment 1.
Required Reading
repare for Class: Answer — What is positivism? What is constructivism? What are the flaws of each paradigm wrt design research? How does pragmatism shore up? (hint: look beyond the readings). 1000 words max. Bring a print out.:
Read: Creswell, J.W. Research Design: Qual, Quant, and Mixed Methods Approaches (2013) Chapters 2 & 3
Extra: Read Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapter 2.
Assign 2 : Start to compile a list of key articles related to your research topic. Bring an article print out to class.
Week 4
Thurs Jan 26
Topic
No Class
Work on Assignment 3 [see below] and readings for next two weeks.
Required Reading
Next few weeks reading
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 4: Ethics sections only, Chapter 5: Introductions and Chapter 6: Purpose Statements.
Extra: Read Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapter 2.
Assign 2 : Start to compile a list of key articles related to your research topic. Bring an article print out to class.
Week 5
Thurs Feb 3
Topic
Logic: inference, deduction, induction
Strategies of Inquiry: Quant, Qual, Mixed and associated methodologies
Strategies of Inquiry in Design Research + history of the field
Check in assignment 2. Lit review peer review.
Research proposal — Assign 3. Introductions –> What’s the problem and why is it important? Examples.
Problem framing exercise.
Strategies of Inquiry check in.
Required Reading
There’s a lot to do for this class — start in advance!
Creswell (2013) Chapter 5: Introductions
Prepare for Class: Design research can fall under scientific, social science, humanities or art & design practice strategies of inquiry. How are each different? What are strengths and weakness of each? Which would you choose for your research topic and why. Bring a print out to class.
Prepare for Class: Be prepared to talk about the problem you will be studying and justify why it’s important.
Week 6
Thurs Feb 9
Topic
Ethics | What to consider
Purpose statement (This is part of Assign 3: Introductions posted above).
Assignment: Research proposal — 9. Ethical Issues in Data Collection [we’re doing this at this point in course b/c of ORE timing]
Required Reading
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 4: Ethics sections only
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 6.
Prepare for Class: Write a draft of your purpose statement. Bring print out to class. Be sure to include the justification for using a mixed methods design. Use the script from Creswell if that helps.
Week 7
Feb 16
Topic
Reading week — READ!!!!
How to create knowledge in design research:
READ: Fallman, Why research-oriented design isn’t design-oriented research. Proceedings of Nordes: Nordic Design Research Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005).
Friedman, Creating design knowledge: from research into practice
Buchanan, Strategies of Inquiry in Design Research
For next lecture — Dix et al. Human Computer Interaction
Also Finish Creswell (2013) Chapter 1-6
Extra Read: Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapters 4, 5.
Required Reading
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 4: Ethics sections only
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 6.
Prepare for Class: Write a draft of your purpose statement. Bring print out to class. Be sure to include the justification for using a mixed methods design. Use the script from Creswell if that helps.
Week 8
Feb 23
Topic
Approaches to Design Evaluation
Research proposal — Assign 4. Research questions and hypotheses. (Part I)
.Continue to work on your critique of another student’s problem framing.
Required Reading
Prepare for Class: Write a draft of your quant and qual research questions (we’ll do mixed methods questions in two weeks in Part II). Bring print out to class.
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapters 4 (writing sections) and 7
If unfamiliar with evaluation methods for interfaces, read a section on interface design evaluation in any undergrad Interaction Design text:
- Dix et al. Human Computer Interaction
- Preece et al. Interaction Design
- Stone et al. User Interface Design and Evaluation
- Benyon, et al. Designing Interactive Systems
Extra: Read Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapter 3.
Week 9
March 2
Topic
Types of Mixed Methods Designs
Research proposal — 4. Research questions and hypotheses. (Part II)
Required Reading
Prepare for Class:Write a draft of your mixed methods research questions. Be sure to include the justification for using a mixed methods design.
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
Extra Read: Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapters 4, 5
Week 9
March 2
Topic
Types of Mixed Methods Designs
Research proposal — 4. Research questions and hypotheses. (Part II)
Required Reading
Prepare for Class:Write a draft of your mixed methods research questions. Be sure to include the justification for using a mixed methods design.
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
Extra Read: Creswell & Clark’s Mixed Methods Research, (2007), Chapters 4, 5
Week 10
March 9
Topic
Role of Theory in Design Research
Research proposal — 5. Role of Theory in Design Research.
Validity, Reliability & Triangulation in Design Research
Research proposal — 6.Definitions, (De)Limitations and Signficance.
Introduce presentations on empirical mixed methods design research study.
Required Reading
Presentation — submit preliminary paper choices. Work in pairs.
Read: Creswell (2013) Chapter 3.
Rogers, New Theoretical Approaches for HCI
Friedman, Theory construction in design
research: criteria: approaches, and
methods.
Morse et al. Verification strategies for establishing reliability and validity in qualitative research, International Journal of Qualitative Methods 1, 2, (2002).
Week 11
March 16
Topic
From empircal result to design knowledge — crossing the gap with rigor (vs leaping!)
Presentations: Deconstructing papers on empirical mixed methods design research + example paper Fan et al. 2017 Why Tangibility Matters: A Design Case Study of At-Risk Children Learning to Read and Spell, In Proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017) ACM, in press.
Presentations: How to do a good presentation!
Quiz review.
Required Reading
Readings on design knowledge from READING WEEK.
Read example Fan et al CHI 2017 paper for presentation example.
Week 12
March 23
Topic
Remote Quiz 9:30 – 11:30 (by email).
No formal lecture.
Required Reading
No reading. Work on presentations and proposals.
Week 13
March 30
Topic
Data Collection Methods Overview
Research proposal — 7. Quant Data Collection
Research proposal — 8. Qual Data Collection
Video Coding (from qual to quant)
Required Reading
Finish Creswell (2013) all chapters.
Work on presentations and associated readings.
Note: papers will be emailed out. Please read for class next week.
Week 14
April 6
Topic
Case Analysis Presentations
Presentation guidelines and Grading Rubric
Case Analysis Presentations
This week we start analysis of mixed methods design research. One paper is presented by each pair of students as assigned/discussed with instruction. Here’s where the course should really come together for you and prepare you to finish your proposal.
Required Reading
Readings for ALL presentations
Week 15
April 13
Topic
Revised Research Proposal Due today at noon.
Hand in paper version to Antle mailbox in SIAT main office on Podium 2.
Required Reading
None