TIA130 Applied Research Methods and Design, 15 HEC, spring 2015
Marisa Ponti (MP) course leader, Dept of Applied IT, marisa.ponti@ituniv.se.
Lecturers: Wolmet Barendregt (WB), Torbjörn Ott (TO), Igor Stankovic (IS), Oskar Lindwall (OL), Alexandra Weilenmann (AW), Thomas Hillman
(TH), Mattias von Feilitzen (MF), Christopher Kullenberg (CK), Version: 2014
Classes will take place at the Dept. of Applied IT
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
04 (1)
20.01
9-12
13-16
Morning: Introduction to the course (MP);
 Presentation Knowledge Lab (MF)
10:00-11:00
 Finding the most cited research (CK)
11:00-12:00
Perry, F. L., & Nichols, J. D. (2015). Understanding Research in
Education (pp. 3-35) Routledge: New York.
Quark
Afternoon: Discussion and Exercise:
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
21.01
9-12
Understanding the nature of research
and Where to find research (MP)
Design-Thinking: What is It?
Reading seminar (MP)
Sas, C., Whittaker, S., Dow, S., Forlizzi, J., & Zimmerman, J. (2014).
Generating implications for design through design research. In
Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in
computing systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1971-1980.
DOI=10.1145/2556288.2557357
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2556288.2557357
Bowell, T., & Kemp, G. (2002) Critical thinking: A Concise Guide (pp. 141). Routledge: London.
Pring, R. (2000). The `false dualism' of educational research. Journal of
Philosophy of Education, Vol. 34, No. 2, 247-260.
Piazza
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
05 (2)
27.01
9-12
13-16
Lecture and Workshop: Major components of
published research and Understanding
Research Designs (MP)
Morning:
Afternoon:
Perry, F. L., & Nichols, J. D. (2015). Understanding Research in
Education (pp. 37-108). Routledge: New York.
Quark
28.01
09-12
Exercise (MP)
Articles selected by the students using the method presented by CK
Piazza
Formative usability evaluation and survey (WB
and TO)
Young, K. A. (2005) Direct from the source: the value of ‘think-aloud’
data in understanding learning. Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol. 6,
No. 1, 19-33
Quark
06 (3)
03.02
9:00-16:00: Lectures and Exercises
Charters, E. (2003) The Use of Think-aloud Methods in Qualitative
Research An Introduction to Think-Aloud Methods. Brock Education
Journal Vol 12, No 2.
http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/view/
38/38
Cohen, L., Manion, L., Morrison, K. (2013) Research Methods in
Education 7th edn. Taylor and Francis. Chapter 8 & 13.
E-book available through http://ub.gu.se
07 (04)
05.02
9:00-15:00: Lectures and Exercises
10.2
Ethnographic research (Mobile Technology &
Social Media) (AW) (TH)
09:00-12:00
Piazza
Brown, B., McGregor, M., & Laurier, E. (2013). iPhone in vivo: video
analysis of mobile device use. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference
on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1031-1040). ACM.
Chalfen, R. (1987). Snapshot Versions of Life. Bowling Green State
University Popular Press. Chapter 2: Social Organization, Kodak
Piazza
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
Culture, and Amateur Photography
Hughes, J. A., Randall, D., & Shapiro, D. (1992). Faltering from
ethnography to design. In Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on
Computer-supported cooperative work (pp. 115-122). ACM.
Goffman, E. (1963). Behavior in public places: notes on the social
organization of gatherings. New York. Part 1: Introduction and Part 2:
Unfocused Interaction
Hillman, T. and Weilenmann, A. (in review). Situated social media use:
A Methodological Approach to Locating Social Media Practices and
Trajectories. In submission to the SIGCHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015).
Weilenmann, A., Hillman, T., & Jungselius, B. (2013). Instagram at the
museum: communicating the museum experience through social
photo sharing. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human
Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1843-1852). ACM.
12.02
Ethnographic research (Mobile Technology &
Social Media) Lectures and exercises (AW) (TH)
Piazza
09:00-15:00
08 (05)
17.02
9-12
13-15
Ethnographic research (Videoanalysis ) (OL)
Lecture and readings
Video Workshop
Derry, S. J., Pea, R. D., Barron, B., Engle, R. A., Erickson, F., Goldman,
R., . . . Sherin, M. G. (2010). Conducting video research in the learning
sciences: Guidance on selection, analysis, technology, and ethics.
Journal of the Learning Sciences, 19(1), 3-53.
Piazza
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
Goodwin, C. (1994). Professional vision. American Anthropologist,
96(3), 606-633.
Hindmarsh, J., & Heath, C. (2007). Video-based studies of work
practice. Sociology Compass, 1(1), 156-173.
Lymer, G., Ivarsson, J., & Lindwall, O. (2009). Contrasting the use of
tools for presentation and critique: Some cases from architectural
education. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative
Learning, 4(4), 423-444. doi: Doi 10.1007/S11412-009-9073-9
18.02
19.02
09 (6)
24.02
Exercise: make recordings in groups (OL)
9-15
Data sessions and workshop on
representations (OL)
Computational methods (IS)
9:00-12:00
Piazza
Sanchez, G. (n.a.) Getting data from the web with R. (Sections 1, 2, 7,
8). Retrieved from http://gastonsanchez.com/work/webdata/
Mai, P., & Chamberlain, S. (2014). Web Technologies Task View. The R
Journal, 6(1), June, pp. 178-181
Retrieved from http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2014-1/mairchamberlain.pdf
Liu, H., & Gundecha, P. (2012).
Mining social media: a brief introduction - A tutorial in operations
research. Presented at INFORMS 2012 (61 pp.). Retrieved from
www.public.asu.edu/~pgundech/book_chapter/smmSlides.pdf
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
Boeing, G. (2014). Web scraping introduction. D-Lab, University of
California, Berkeley (30 pp.). Retrieved from
http://dlab.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/training_materials/webscraping-talk%20.pdf
Pew Research Center (2014). How
we analyzed Twitter social media networks with NodeXL (23 pp.)
Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/files/2014/02/How-weanalyzed-Twitter-social-media-networks.pdf
25.02
Computational methods (IS)
9:00-12:00
26.02
Computational methods (IS)
9:00-12:00
10 (7)
03.03
Current trends in research Guest lecturer: CK
10:00-12:00
”Mapping communities in social media - a
methodological workshop”
No readings
Franzi Em
“Learning Analytics”
13:00-15:00
04.03
Multimodal methodologies (Giulia Messina
Dahlberg)
13:00-16:00
Reading TBA
Piazza
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
05.03
11 (8)
To read
Room
No readings
10.03
Design-based research (TH)
Piazza
13:00-16:00
12 (9)
11.03
Design-based research (TH)
13:00-16:00
Torg Blå
12.03
Design-based research (TH)
13:00-16:00
Piazza
17.03
9-12
13-16
18.03
9-12
Designing a research proposal (MP)Preparing the final assignment
Bell. J. (2010). Doing your research project [Elektronisk resurs]: a guide
for first-time researchers in education, health and social science.
McGraw-Hill Open University Press (pp. 27-43).
Piazza
Piazza
Week
Day
Time
Theme and lecturers
To read
Room
13(10)
24.03
9-12
13-16
Presentation final assignment (MP)
Quark
25.03
9-12
13-16
Presentation final assignment (MP)
Piazza