This week we had a guest lecture with Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander, who talked about haptics and design research. The Lecture was not what I had expected, since Sallnäs mainly talked about her own research in the fields of haptics, which doesn't interest me at all, and I expected her to talk about design research in a more general consensus, and use her own research only as examples. She didn't really do this, so this lecture were not particularly interesting for me.
But some of her statements poked my mind and got me thinking, especially the one where she said “peace on earth through haptics, peace on earth is a valid ground for science”, and compared it with the phenomena of “flaming” on the internet, that internet can be interpreted as a barrier which you can use while discussing on the internet, often used in negative ways through harassment and similar. She argued that haptics can be used to tear down this barrier, and create a friendlier internet. I think she got a point, even though I think this is a distant future, they should still pursue it.
And the concept of peace on earth should in some way be the ultimate goal of everyone, no matter what, but saying that it is a valid ground for science is a little bit harsh, you can't just simply state that whatever research you are conducting will bring peace to all of mankind, without any further arguments.
She also mentioned that collaborative research or tests may give you quantitative or qualitative research for free. I assumed from the beginning of this theme that that were the general idea of creating collaborative tests and similar in the first place. To acquire knowledge about how subjects interact with each other and adapt to the group, and in some ways be compared to a hive mind or collective intelligence.
During this theme I learned more from reading her texts and answering the questions given, than from the guest lecturer, and I hope next weeks guest lecturer with Haibo Li will be more interesting.
Hey Arozin!
SvaraRaderaI agree with you about the lecture. It was not really what I expected though I thought she would focus on the theme for this week and not talk too much about her own research. But as you mentioned, I also heard the expression “flaming” for the first time which was interesting because I did not reflect upon that misunderstandings while texting had an expression. Also that "peace on earth" is a kind of goal with haptic-research, which I can understand. With haptics you want to make e.g a task more user-friendly and comfortable which will engage people in practice. It can also make it easier for people to understand each other. I think this area (design research) is really interesting and I think Haibo talked more about the basics with design research and he also went more into details. I do think a mixture of Eva-Lotta’s lecture and Haibo’s still complemented each other though you understood Eva-Lotta’s research and lecture better after getting the basic theory of design research from Haibo.
Keep up the good work!
/Hannah
Hi,
SvaraRaderaI think we have same opinion about Sallnäs seminar, almost half the time she explain about the paper she wrote, but she rarely mentions the collaboration research and design research that should be the theme for this week. At the beginning, she actually tries to explain the question regarding research method, and she implicitly explains about collaborative research between qualitative and quantitative research, but I think it is too short.
I interested your opinion in "flaming", do you think using emoticon or picture can overcome this limitation? Because, each of emoticon have meaning to express your emotion while writing a text. Furthermore, almost all chatt application we used have this feature. In addition, when using this emoticon at least we can show our feeling when type the messages.