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How to get a PhD with virtual balls and a crème brulee
• The context • The story • The ‘new’ bit • The observations
How to get a PhD with virtual balls and a crème brulee
• It’s personal • It’s subjective• It’s emotional • It’s old stuff
The problem
• New emerging technologies
• HCI tools not good enough
• Guidelines to design tools
• Support design as well as evaluation
The problem
‘I have seen well-respected usability professionals blandly take pot shots (at design solutions)…when their rigorous, scientific method uncovered a problem area, they would lapse into the most amateurish babbling about solutions: “well, I guess we could move this control over to this dialog box”… it was very time consuming but not solving the problems’Cooper 1999 pp 210-211
The new knowledge
• Organisational factions
• Guarded use of innovation
• Institutionalised product development
Some thoughts
• New knowledge can be very small
• Human science-based research is hard
• Real applied research is a nightmare!
• Rigour vs results• Watch your
epistemology• Crisis of confidence is
normal
Some more thoughts
• Sloppy thinking is your enemy
• It’s only a PhD not nobel research
• Pick an examiner who’s been round the block
• You will get sick of it• Writing-up is the hard
part