Action: Plan Research Design for MRP and Seek Feedback

December 4, 2021 admin Action

What will I do to achieve this?

• Continue refining my research proposal and seeking feedback until it is specific and grounded enough to propose to the Research Ethics Board
• Seek out potential case studies for research designs that share desired qualities with my own planned study and consider the implications from the studies’ results
• Connect with potential participants and develop a concrete understanding of what role(s) data representations play in their lives currently, and what speculative futures exist involving them with which participants agree are important
• Build relationships with peers and potential advisors, communicate my plans to them, and take their recommendations related to the research design into consideration to develop it into its most ideal form
• Look for opportunities to align the ideas of my planned MRP study with course projects that have open topic options, and use the course project(s) as trials for the research design in an appropriate capacity

Which goals/related actions will this action help me accomplish?

• Maximize current skill set
• Develop new skills
• Develop academic and professional network
• Publish research work in academic conferences
• Develop theoretical knowledge in relevant domains
• Participate in and contribute to Perceptual Artifacts Lab
• Contact CNIB and other recommended organizations and discuss MRP
• Conduct research study for MRP thesis topic
• Write MRP thesis

What resource(s) will I need to be successful?

• An expanded academic and professional network (recommendations for prospective participant contacts and / or organizations with which may be interested in a partnership)
• Literature sources with comparable research designs that may be used as case studies
• Course projects with sufficiently open deliverables to use as a trial run for MRP study (if possible)