How to Find your Research Idea? KMCA workshop3-1-2012
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How to write a research paper: Identifying Your Research Problem
(Idea)Anwar F.A. Dafa-Alla, Ph.D.
CS & IT Dept. Alzaiem Alazhari [email protected] , 3-1-2012, Friendship Hall
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Please read the note below these slidesthey include references/notes/URLs, etc…Workshop URL: http://kmca2012.net
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Why I’m here• Learning from you • Sharing with you:
– 2003 ~ 2010 Researching CS, Database & BioInformatics Lab, Chungbuk Nat’l University, Korea.
– Best research paper Award, FITAT/DBMI 2009.– Taught “Innovation” to graduate students @ SUST.– Keen about fostering R & D in Sudan and Africa (SudaDev, Sudanese
Researchers Initiative, TEDx, etc…) Aiming to develop an intellectual IN ACTION community
– My DNA sequence is : LEARNSHARELEARNETWORKNOWORK
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Search Vs. Research• School homework
• Ordered and Shapely
• College research
• Random and hopeful
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The qualities of good research skills Professor Guy Claxton:2. Curiosity الفضول3. Attentiveness اإلنتباه 4. Patience الصبر5. Hands-on construction البناء على � عمليا التدرب6. Skepticism الشك
1. Freedom الحرية
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Agenda• Creativity. Innovation. Creative Thinking• Good Ideas Vs. Bad Ideas• The intelligence trap• Academic ability Vs. Creativity
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We are usually born with two types of thinking.. The analytical side and the creative side…
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Analytical
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Creative
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CreativityCreativityBringing into existence an idea that is new to you
InnovationThe practical application of creative ideas
Creative Creative
ThinkingThinking
An innate talent that you were born with and a set of
skills that can be learned, developed, and utilized in
daily problem solving
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Three Components of CreativityThree Components of Creativity
Expertise
Motivation
Creative Thinking
Skills
CreativityCreativity
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• Create thinking space in a company :Climb the ladder:Top Rung How do I make the organization more innovative
One rung down How do I Make my division more innovative
Third rung How do I make my team more innovative
Fourth rung How can I be more innovative
Fifth rung How can I implement one new idea?
The idea process
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Drivers for innovation– Financial pressures to reduce costs, increase efficiency, do more with
less, etc– Increased competition– Shorter product life cycles– Value migration– Stricter regulation– Industry and community needs for sustainable development– Increased demend for accountability– Demographic, social and maket changes– Rising customer expectations regarding service and quality– Changing economy– Greater availability of potentially useful technologies coupled with a
need to exceed the competition in these technologies
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Not just a good Idea!Not just a good Idea!
Creative solutions are more than ideas - they must work in the real world. A
creative solution has three attributes:
• It is new (otherwise it would not be creative).
• It is useful, in that it solves the problem (otherwise it would not be a
solution).
• It is feasible, given the messy real world constraints like money and
time.
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Stages of innovation adoption •Awareness - the individual is exposed to the innovation but lacks complete information about it •Interest - the individual becomes interested in the new idea and seeks additional information about it •Evaluation - individual mentally applies the innovation to his present and anticipated future situation, and then decides whether or not to try it •Trial - the individual makes full use of the innovation•Adoption - the individual decides to continue the full use of the innovation.
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Bad ideas• deliberately silly/bad ideas
– e.g. Zeer hammer
• Analyse it– what’s good, what’s bad
• Assume it is a good idea– pretend it is optimal
عمر: مظفر تصوير
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Why bad ideas?• Reduce personal commitment• Fun group exercise
• to train critical thought• to inspire good ideas!
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Importance of thinking• " Allows you to go from what you know, to
what you don't know."- Edward de Bono
• “Thinking is a Skill and should be taught.”- Edward de Bono
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Tools for Defining ProblemsTools for Defining Problems
Kipling Method Kipling Method Rudyard Kipling used a set of questions (5W + 1H) What? Where? When? Why? Who? When? How ?
Problem Statement Problem Statement define the problem you are trying to solve
Challenge Method Challenge Method force yourself or other people out of a thinking
Tools for Tools for
Defining Defining
ProblemsProblems
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Where good Ideas come from?Steve Johnson TED talks:1- How the GPS is invented?2- How did the epidemiology
started?
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Tools for Creating New Ideas
Attribute Listing Attribute Listing when you have a situation that can be decomposed into attributes
Brainstorming Brainstorming probably the best-known creative tool.
Visioning Visioning motivating view of the future
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Thinking out of the box• Take from here and there…put them there
and here!• Financial Banking & Physics!• Feeling, Weather & Blogging!• "3M“ Minnesota, Mining,
and Manufacturing
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Daniel Bernoulli• The expected
value of any of our actions is the product of two simple things: the odds that this action will allow us to gain something, and the value of that gain to us.
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Academic ability Vs. Creativity• Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
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All of them dropped out of school
What am I still doing here?!
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Fostering R &D in Sudan & AfricaIf you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go Far, Go together!
African Proverb
Go together!
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References/Readings/Fun • Books:
– Diffusion of Innovation, Everett M. Rogers – The myth of Innovation, Scott Berkun
• PPTs:- cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/complex/diffusion.ppt
www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~dixa/talks/.../ppt/teaching-innovation.ppt Innovation & Knowledge Management - vpmthane.comInnovation and CreativityStudyMarketing.org
• Funny stuff:– Ph.D. Comics http://www.phdcomics.com/
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About me• Anwar F.A. Dafa-Alla, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Information TechnologyAl Zaiem Al Azhari University, P.O.Box 1432 Khartoum North 13311, Khartoum, Sudan• TEDxKhartoum Licensee/Organizer
TED Open Translation Project, Most Active Volunteer Translator• President, SudanTED organization• Find me on:
LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter. WikiPedia. TED . . TEDxYonsei.TEDxSeoul . DBLP. Academia . Sudanese Researchers Initiative. TED For Arab. Youtube . Blogger . DB/Bio LAB.