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  • Research on the Edge: Incorporating new research methods in standard corporate research practices

    Article thumbnail: Research on the Edge: Incorporating new research methods in standard corporate research practices
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    Descripción/Resumen:
    Outside of academia, it is often hard for researchers to find the opportunity to continue our scholarship. As graduate students and PHD fellows, we spent years creating and testing our hypotheses, designing new methods, approaches and technologies and we are anxious to ascertain if our theories can survive in the real world. How does a lone researcher engage the business community and convince them to test and use new cutting-edge research methods? The flipside is also true, you are a corporate researcher who would like to engage new methods and approaches to advance learnings, but you have limited resources and a business that demands results. How can you trust new methods and engage in new approaches while minimizing risk and exposure? The authors will give a 50,000-foot view of a new design research methodology, The FlashDraw, and how it can be complimentary alongside traditional research methods. An overview and example of the research process will be illustrated. The poster will also explore the challenges and successes of the partnership between two researchers, a recent graduate student and a corporate researcher, and their on-going journey to explore and establish best practices for researching on the “edge of the new”.
    Creador/Autor:
    Hertz, Tricia and Lutz, Eva
    Peticionario:
    Lora Alberto
    Fecha modificada:
    11/28/2017
    Fecha modificada:
    01/11/2018
    Fecha de creacion:
    2017-10-31
    Licencia:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

  • Animation as a Creative Tool: Insights into the Complex

    Article thumbnail: Animation as a Creative Tool: Insights into the Complex
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    Article
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    Case studies are discussed, from Northumbria University’s practice-led Centre for Design Research (CfDR) that demonstrate how visualising concepts and designs through digital animation can enable effective communication of ideas and interactions, which in turn enables creative leaps in thinking, understanding and decision-making. Animation is a tool that can unlock the comprehension into what is and what could be. This paper reflects on a number of collaborative projects between the CfDR and several scientific communities, demonstrating and focusing in particular on the process of visualisation, designing digital animations to communicate complex processes, ideas and interactions. An approach and understanding has been developed about how to effectively communicate potentially complex, scientific and technical concepts for the benefit of the client and the end user, in particular the lay audience whose knowledge of the subject may be limited or non-existing. Findings indicate that the process of constructing simple digital animated stories becomes a learning process for both designer and client. Critical discussions during collaborative meetings develop shared understandings: helping clients to think more creatively about communication (appreciating the benefits of manipulating a truth to position to waylay contextual confusion), and making implicit knowledge belonging to the client explicit to the designer. It is important to state that this negotiation is more effective when the designer is a layperson with respect to the complex implicit knowledge of the client. During these collaborative conditions the untangling of complex ideas have achieve the a-ha moments in the animations’ audiences.
    Creador/Autor:
    Hilton, Kevin H. ; Parkinson, David A., and Hewitt, Ian Balmain
    Peticionario:
    Lora Alberto
    Fecha modificada:
    11/21/2017
    Fecha modificada:
    01/09/2018
    Fecha de creacion:
    2017-10-31
    Licencia:
    Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International