Today at the lecture, Sallnäs talked a lot about her research in the field of haptic collaborative interfaces. To be honest, I have a hard time seeing the point of this lecture in this course. Since the lecture was very focused on her research, which to me wasn't that appealing to be honest, I had a little bit of trouble to stay focused during the whole session.
What I did pick up was when she talked about the so called white spots, which could be explained as an area that you're no that familiar with. What Sallnäs said when she mentioned this was that when you're doing research in an area that you're not that familiar with you should go with a qualitative method rather than a quantitative one.
Like I said in the beginning I had a hard time to actually see the point of this lecture since I think it was mainly aimed at research in the haptic field. I think that the quantitative methods kind of fell out from the agenda.
Hi Andreas,
SvaraRaderaHaha, I had the same problem with this theme and lecture as you. I also picked up the term white spot, but I think that’s about it. But on the other hand it’s quite interesting to hear what she works with, even though I probably won’t end up there my self.
Sofia
Hi,
SvaraRaderaI think we have same opinion about Sallnäs seminar, almost half the time she explains about the paper she wrote. I had interest this "white spot", I agree that this white spot as area you are not so sure about. If I correlated with Haibo Li, then I think this white spot also can be defined as a problem in our point of view, and we need to build a solution or hypothesis to analyze this problem. However, I am not so sure about using qualitative method when we are not familiar with this white spot. Because, I think when conducting an experiment, either we use qualitative or quantitative, we need to formulate all the questions and the type of answer when conducting an experiment. So, what your opinion regarding this condition?
Hi Andreas,
SvaraRaderaI like that you are honest! ;) I think it very interesting with the unfamiliar area called the white spot. I understand that we have to adapt our methods according to those areas but I’m not sure that it’s better to go for a qualitative method rather than a quantitative one. Maybe you need numbers and a lot of data? I didn’t grasp that part.