Theme 1 – Comments
1. Answering
Hanna Bylund
My answer on Hanna
Bylunds comment on my blog post at 5 September 2014 – Theme 1, Theory of knowledge and theory of
science.
Yes, it was exactly what I mean, the experiences
contributes to the way of collect knowledge and prejudices, therefore its not
surprising that we as humans get different points of views. Our backgrounds and
the way we grew up on have shaped our aura and the way we learn and filter the
“incoming data”.
2. Answering
Charlotte Åbyhammar
My answer on
Charlottes comment on my blog post at 5 September 2014 – Theme 1, Theory of knowledge and theory of
science.
I still think the concept of knowledge is just a word,
with a definition. I think it’s difficult to just accept the knowledge as
something broad and diffuse. But I’m agreeing with you charlotte, it’s
interesting that a concept can be discussed for hundreds of years except any
success and agrees. Unfortunately I think it’s not the end yet. It would be
interesting to see into the future to investigate weather they still discuss
the concept in hundreds of years.
3. Sofie Nilsson
Your reflections surrounding the dialog about “with”
or “through” the eyes are interesting and the example of the letters is given a
good insight of the meaning between “with” and “through”. When I read the text
it become clearer when they gave examples. When we talked about to explain
knowledge the relevance of giving examples is important to explain the concept
even better. I think it would be good to talk about “examples” as we talked and
argue for knowledge. Good arguments and good work!!
4. XuXiao Ma
I think your arguments around the concept of knowledge
are interesting and it became clearer for me to understand what Kant meant by
his text as you describe “Let us assume that objects must conform to our
cognition instead of our cognition conform to objects.” But I wonder if we can
trust our self, in the correct understanding of the world? What’s the right
thing? What’s right or what's wrong?
Good Arguments!! J
5. Hannes Törnqvist
To search for Plato’s dialogue at YouTube was smart, I
didn't thought of it. It might have been simpler to understand the dialogue,
for me it was quite confusing to get a relation between the characters. You
mention the citation from the seminar “Perception is blind without conception”,
and I totally agree with your thoughts. It’s quite obvious to get a perspective
of the definition when we relate it to your self-experiences, and it’s easier
to understand if we connect our experiences to the real world. Good arguments
and reflection of this theme. Philosophical is very complex and hard to get
into, I'm agreeing with you!
Theme 2 - Comments 22/9 2014
I’m agreeing with your argument regarding the concepts
of aura. But I wonder if you think of the energy field around the body? Is
there anything you can connect with these kinds of theories?
In addition to that, I like your arguments and it seems
that you work a lot with the text and trying to understand them. I’m also
thinking the text become clearer after the first class and even more after the
seminars. Am looking forward to read some of the later blog posts.
2. Åsa Linder
I think the same as you regarding the texts this week.
They were much easier to understand even though there were some concepts that
were not clear. Its good when you reflect up on the things you discuss during
the seminars, and it’s easy to follow arguments the texts looking closer at.
When I’m reading your text I miss some reflections and arguments of your own
thoughts. What do you think of the concepts after the seminar compared to
before. Its easy to write your text, keep it up! Good Luck J
3. Hanna Bylund
Your text is very clear and easy to understand,
compare to the texts as you mention. I seems like you understand this topic and
its good to go to the seminar to get a better knowledge of the concepts. Unfortunately
I couldn’t attend to the seminar this week and when I’m read your text, the
concepts become clearer even for me, because this theme was hard to understand
when I didn’t attend. I’m totally agreed with your arguments about the critique
of enlightenment and their point of how we live and control our life in the way
of universal and practical qualities.
4. Illona Khammatova
I like that you focus on how we as human in the
“modern” society can be controlled of someone just by give us information that
sounds good, like Hitler’s propaganda campaigns. I’m agreeing in the way of how
scary it is of how mass media can shape the inhabitants and how they can
control our life in the way of just persuade of something, and we don’t know if
its true. Like China and their believes how the rest of the world are
controlled as just as them. For instance they haven’t any access to Facebook
and other communication channels, just to hide them from another way of se the
world. You wrote a good text with good arguments, keep it on J Good
Luck!!
5. Noa Julin
Even though you couldn’t attend to the seminar I think
you capture the best argument in this theme. I think it’s scary to know how the
mass media can control the information that is released to the community. You
mention the “valbarometern” which was public by Aftonbladet, the Swedish left
side of the politic right-left scale. Perhaps this was the reason the majority
of the doubtful voters chosen the right side, just because the Aftonbladet can
control the “barometern” tool? Or what do you think? Perhaps not? But it gave
me a suspicion of cheating.
Theme 3 - Comments 29/9 2014
Answer on
Charlottes comment on my post at 19 September 2014 – Research and Theory.
Yes, charlotte I’m totally agree with you. When I’m
watching TV I have to put the phone or other devices at the side, I need to
separate these screens from each other. As you mention, it’s scary to be in the
generation of doing everything at the same time. These multitasking and to be
online around the clock, make me stressed up and outside. Sometimes I need to
be offline to feel comfortable again. And it contributes to miss something
happening in media and regarding my friends, because it’s hip with these
communication channels.
Answer on Ma
XuXiao comment on my post at 28 September 2014 – Theme 3 Reflection
I think your interpretation of my explanation is
correct, the hypotheses can be both right and wrong and sometimes at the same
time. The normative examples I gave are not written in stone, and of course it’s
not illegal to pass the red man but other peoples may think not do right. In
the descriptive way it can bee seen as you say, how the things are – in the way
of describing things.
3. Johannes
Törnqvist
I’m agreeing with your thoughts and I also think it’s
still hard to define the concept. Do you connect the complexity of describing
the word to the concept of knowledge; we talked about few weeks ago? Do you
reflect how these words are equally difficult do describe? And do you also use
examples to describe them both?
4. Johanna
Sjöberg
I’m agreeing with you both, these five concepts of
theory types are difficult to understand and get a clear view on. A hint can be
to eliminate the one who are most improbable and den move to the next one and
after all you will have one left. And I think it’s become more clear after
reading more texts while you have in mind what the theory can be. The authors
of my text were clear to describe the theories in the beginning, and their plans
of investigation method. It makes it easier to understand the taxonomies.
5. Anna Evaldsson
Just because of these confusing concepts the lectures
are important to understand and the seminars are good to attend. So glad you
did understand the slides and could attend to the seminar. I also learned how
the hypotheses are connected to the theory, but if I had conceived after I had
realized the background of the idea, how these words/concepts are connected.
For somehow I think it’s quite obvious to connect them, now after I have been
at these sessions. But as I mentioned above, to reading the text don’t get
enough to really understand.
Theme 4 - Comments
1. Zhoujie Fang
Your reflections on the relations between quantitative
and qualitative research are important, because of the preparations you talked
about. Build a good base to the further research, to gain much data as possible
from the study. From my experiences of a research study, it requires a lot of
time to decide and analyse which kind of method you have to use. Other wise it
will cost you a lot of time later in the process to change direction.
I also liked the arrangements of the seminar to this
theme, I learned a lot of what a quantitative methods are and what it require. A
lot of thoughts that I have never thought about came up, and I realised that
quantitative methods is much broader than I expected.
2. Sofia Sjöberg
Answers on Sofia
Sjöbergs comment on my post at 26 September – Theme 4 Quantitative research.
When I’m reading your comment, I realised that it
might not be good with rewards, just as you said. The seriously attending
disappears and the result may not be trustful. That raises the question of how
to attract participators? Hmm, Is it better to collect a small amount of
participators instead of take the risk with a small part of un-seriously data?
Thanks for a good comment!
3. Charlotte
Answers on
Charlotte Åbyhammars comment on my post at 26 September – Theme 4 Quantitative
research.
Thank you Charlotte for the good response in your
comment. As I answer Sofia, I didn’t thought of the result by given the
participants some rewards. I think it’s a good question to discuss and of
course it’s a risk with rewards. But I still think it would be interesting to
discuss weather it gain broader result or not trustful data.
4. Alexander
Arozin
Good reflections and it sounds like you are very
interesting of this topic and you have learned a lot even thou you already have
done surveys a lot. I also think the intelligent surveys was especially
interesting during the seminar, I haven’t think that feedback of the answers
could have that impact of the respondents. Fortunately it’s an effective
solution to get more seriously participators and the result will be more
trustful.
To reach the main target group is very important when
you distribute a survey to collect the best data. You mention the extensive
matrix of the respondent groups, which divided the respondents into different
target groups. It means that you can turn to focus on the participators that
are more common than the others. It’s a great tool to use to analyse the
respondents in relation to the result.
5. Johan Kasperi
Hi,
I’m agreeing with your opinion surrounding the
intelligent surveys; I haven’t either heard of it before. The feedback you get
from the survey will be more realistic and trustful than ordinary surveys. The
participators will engage more time and commitments to the answers, to receive
a more interesting result. In order to the participators interest of the
result, you will collect a more realistic research. Great job!
Theme 5 – Comments
1. Panagotis K
Interesting, then you’ll understand what I mean with
the reliability of the method. It become more realistic and the participators
feel more involved and the interaction become more real. I think we both have
learn something new about quantitative and qualitative researchers and its good
to have in mind for further work.
2. Muhammad Haky
Rufinato
Yes, it’s smart to analyse the data from two
directions to gain a broader perspective of the situation, the respondent’s
opinions and the statistic result. Both quantitative and qualitative studies
can include the subjective and objective method. For the qualitative it can be
the direct thoughts (subjective) and measurements of movement (objective) in an
interview video. The quantitative can collect data in a statistic (objective)
way and the subjective thoughts through open fields in a survey.
Thanks for your good comment!
3. Noa
Yes, the tool to understand the user is nowadays very
important and attractive by many companies surrounding the interaction
industry. In my opinion, the satisfaction and attraction by the users user is
important and it increases in the ICT industry. The high values to be the most
useful application or device become broader. To carry on the knowledge of
usability is today like gold.
4. Cecilia
Friström
First, it’s a good strategy of you to talk with your
friends when you missed the lecture, it sounds that you summarised the session
very well. The white-spot are an interesting part that Eva-Lotta Sallnäs talked
about. It’s a good solution if you don’t know which way you will choose. Later
on, in almost every situation you can collect quantitative data out of an
qualitative study, in from of times, clicks, etc.
5. Daniel
Lindström
Your answers on the questions through the whole post
is very good, they are easy and clear. In the end of the post, you answer the
question about objective and subjective methods comparatively with the
quantitative and qualitative methods. As I understood the objective and
subjective methods, they are included in both quantitative and qualitative
studies as the participators opinions (subjective) and the statistic
measurement (objective). For instance, the participators thoughts regarding the
prototype are subjective and the statistic time to fulfil a usability test is
objective.
Theme 6 – Comments
1. Gabriella
Sanchez Karlsson
You, like me and everyone else think the definition of
case study is hard to understand. Fortunately it's easier when we got the
examples like ADHD. I think it’s good to understand the method for further
researches like our master thesis. It’s a useful method that has a big impact
of the reliability of a study. Your reflections regarding this topic are
interesting and it's sounds like you have the knowledge of the concept. Good
job!
2. Johan Huusmann
I think you have right arguments surrounding a case
study. As I learned it’s a real existing problem or phenomenon that has to be
investigated by different methods. The solution is build by different methods
to solve the problem or investigate a problem. Some of the other students have
given an example of to investigate a disease like ADHD. Great reflections!
3. Johanna
Sjöberg
Interesting reflections surrounding the case study vs.
field studies. I haven’t thought of the differences between these studies. I
don’t think we talked about the differences in my group either. You say that a
field study is made by one person and a case study by a team, is it as a
researcher or as a participator?
4. Hanna Bylund
Answering on
Hanna Bylund comment on my post at 19 October – Theme 6 Reflection
Thanks for your useful comment, now it become clear.
The ADHD example was good; we also talked a case study as investigation of a
patient. As I understood, it’s a problem you already know and have to
investigate whether it’s true or not and after the different studies, it leads
to the “result” or “the disease”. Oh, it’s hard to describe. The investigation
is a collection of different studies to summarise the result.
5. Ayesha Ahsan
Answering on
Ayesha Ahsan comment on my post at 19 October – Theme 6 Reflection
Yes, that’s right. The second type you described is
what I mean with the hypotheses. I should have discussed it deeper, but I will
say that it’s hard to analyse a case study where the researcher use an already
existing case to investigate further. It’s easy to analyse from one perspective
to gain a better result. But I realised that a case study also can be a study
that disprove an already existing study. Then the hypotheses are important to
build a base fore the next study. Thank you for your good comment!
