Post seminar 5

This week did not consist of a seminar-part, so this post reflection was going to be based on 2 lectures. Unfortunately, one of them where moved to next week, so we had one lecture this week. It was hold by Eva-Lotta Sallnäs Pysander.

I hoped she would talk about the design research more in general, because I thought it was an interesting part of the course. But instead she talked very much about previous studies of her own. In her researches she used haptics and collaborative research.

Eva-Lotta was very positive about this collaborative method. As I wrote in the pre-reflection, collaborative research is when doing research on a group (more than 2) and this atmosphere let the participants join in a more relaxed way. But I think this can be both positive and negative, since the participants can affect each other in both positive and negative ways. Collaborative research is good when the participants bring out the best of each other and encourage each other to talk and share opinions. In the same way, collaborative research can work the opposite, by having participant that prevent this flow of information.

As I said in the beginning, I was hoping for more general information during this lecture, because I did not really learn very much (I have to admit). But I’ll keep some tips she mentioned.