I think it's interesting that you focused on ideas, went more into detail about what ideas are than was done in the first lecture and that you discussed ideas in a general sense as well as how it relates to academic research.
About the second lecture, I also think that an important part of it was that design in itself is not a knowledge contribution, but when the data gathered during the design process is analysed we get a knowledge contribution.
Great summary of the week's theme.
I think a large part about coming up with great ideas is having a lot of knowledge that you then can see connections between. This knowledge can be gained through for example the intake of earlier research or by prototyping.
I agree with you, and the lecturer, that prototypes are used as something that provokes to gain more knowledge, and that this directs the research process. This design process is then analysed and evaluated so that you are able to make a knowledge contribution.
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You summarised the week very well, and I enjoyed reading your reflections on the subjects brought up.
The part about securing funding through a proof of concept and pitching it the right way was interesting to me as well. It's good to have that in mind as early as possible, since you won't get any resources when doing something completely new and innovative if you can't show those who have the resources why it's so great.
It's great that you bring up that the process in design research can be considered the empirical data.
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I completely agree with your sentiment that it would have been great to pilot our research designs for our bachelor theses, since so much small errors really get in your way when conducting "poorly" designed research. I piloted my questionnaire, but not some of the other integral parts of my research which in hindsight wasn't perfect.
As others has said your distinction between the use of prototypes in industry and research doesn't really agree with my view. The use of prototypes can, in my opinion, be the same between the two, but I guess that it's more common in research to use prototypes just as a provocation to gain new knowledge and it doesn't have to solve any problems.
Great summary of some of the key concepts from the week's lectures, as well as some insightful reflections!
I agree with you on the point that all research shouldn't be motivated by how much money there is to make from providing a solution to a problem. Industrial research kind of has to be, but academic research shouldn't. Another part of Haibo's lecture that involved money was that you have to get funding for your research, and to get it you can for example produce a proof of concept and—probably most importantly—"sell" it in a good way by doing as the entrepreneur he spoke about.
I like that you bring up the way design research process steers the researcher towards the real problem.
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