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Writing Good Qualitative Research Questions | Mass Communication Theory Got a great handout a while back that I stumbled over today, hopefully it’s as helpful to you as it was to me. Here are the steps for writing good (mass communication of course) qualitative research questions: Specify the research problem: the practical issue that leads to a need for your study. Complete these sentences: “The topic for this study will be…”“This study needs to be conducted because…” How to write a good qualitative purpose statement: a statement that provides the major objective or intent or roadmap to the study. Single sentenceInclude the purpose of the studyInclude the central phenomenonUse qualitative words e.g. explore, understand, discoverNote the participants (if any)State the research site A good place to start: The purpose of this ______________ (narrative, phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnographic, case, etc.) study is (was? Research questions serve to narrow the purpose. The most general questions you could ask Sub-questions Sub-question script: Sources Like this:
MoovJee Construct 2 - the HTML5 game I’ve been experimenting with Construct 2 from Scirra the last few days. Construct 2 is a program from creating HTML 5 games. What really got my interest was that there is the ability to create Windows 8 games using Construct 2 with Visual Studio 12. The Construct 2 development environment is pretty easy to use and I find that some similarities to Visual Studio (among other tools) is helpful in finding ones way around it. The image below shows the layout of graphical objects on the screen as well as the properties box, list of images and outline of the project. The coding involves what is called an event sheet. I really like that for a single event you can easily specify different actions for different objects in the game. Programs/games are created in the Construct 2 IDE and tested in a web browser. My next step is to outline the things you’ll want to include in a game that you make with Construct 2 in order to make it fit the guidelines for inclusion in the Windows Marketplace.
Designing With People | Putting people at the heart of the design process Best suited to: Early to mid stages of the design process Gathering contextual insights in the exploratory phase of the design process Assessing the effectiveness of new prototypes in the development stages of the design process Characteristics: Type of interaction: Goes well with: Observation & Shadowing, Interview, Day in the Life, User Diaries On a Plate: making food packaging easier to use Designer Katherine Gough used video ethnography to track how four UK households interact with food packaging. Read more Hair Removal Products Design group Factory used video ethnography when examining how women hair removal products could be improved. Read more Video ethnography is an extension of the academic discipline of ethnography, a form of research focusing on the sociology of meaning through close field observation of socio-cultural phenomena. Katherine Carroll, K., Ledema, R. & Kerridge, R. (2008) ‘Reshaping ICU Ward Round Practices Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography’ in
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