Title: What are the possibilities of interaction design to encourage a more active lifestyle?
Introduction
- Why is this an important area to study? Why am I interested in it? The rise of obesity and in increasingly inactive society.
- Sub-questions that guide my project:
- What makes people actually active? Not what makes them want to be active.
- What different forms can interaction design take? Digital, physical, experienced (mimic), not experienced (abstract)
- Are there 'games' or interactions out there that encourage activity subconsciously e.g. Pokemon Go, Piano stairs etc.
- What classes as activity?
- What are the problems with interaction design? Predictable, boredom, lack of context, goal/incentives for continuous play.
- Can interaction design be effective in a non-digital format? Interactive architecture.
- Outline how I'm going to research this project (my methodology). Primary and Secondary research methods, including visual, practical and textual research methods.
- Maybe explain my position on this subject. Academic honesty and a defence against accusations of bias. Relate this to writers, key texts and other relevant information.
Main Body One: Context and Themes
- Key theoretical sources:
- Psychogeography, subjective mappings and super graphics
- Medium is the Message
- Actor-Network Theory
- Key theories, history, origins and approaches of both interaction and interactive design
- categorise interaction designs (games, performance, interface...)
- Show awareness of all the key contextual information (leading practitioners, influential historical events, social and cultural contexts, policy, legislation etc)
- Explain the relevance of materials cited to the central research question and research methods (practical and textual)
- Mini-conclusion linking to the next chapter
(Write in paragraphs that focus on one particular point - not chronological order)
Main Body Two: Case Studies of Practice
- Two/three extended, critical analyses of specific works of art and/or design
- The piano staircase?
- Others will arise from research
- Clear rationale for selection of chosen works. Explicitly explain the relevance of works to central research question and chosen research methods. Best to do in the first paragraph of this chapter.
- Descriptive analysis - describe image in as much detail to help with later interpretations
- Theoretical and contextual analysis - explicitly evidence application of theoretical research and contextual information from Chapter Two - to back up your interpretation. Use quotes/citations to back up your ideas. Try to relate the work to the context you found it in. Do any social values or norms influence the way you interpret work?
- Mini conclusion linking to the next chapter
Main Body Three: Reflective Practice
- Descriptive analysis of practical work produced for COP3 module. Include information about project rationale, research methods, timescales, location and project management.
- Theoretical and contextual analysis of practical work produced. Explain relevance of works cited in chapter two, and works analysed in chapter three, to the work produced and production decisions made. Discuss how practical work relates to central research question and research methods (practical and textual) Suggest how own work has extended your knowledge of research topic.
Conclusion
- Extended paragraph summarising the findings of each previous chapter. Can be done chapter by chapter, or something more over arching, comparative or fluid.
- Paragraph showing implications findings have on my own discipline. Reflections on own practice, suggestions for policy changes, legislation changes etc. Maybe include section on proposals for future research (keep that part brief).
- Paragraph evaluating success and/or short comings of research project. Including extended discussion of extent to which the research successfully synthesises theory and practice. Discuss research methods as much as the final outcome.
- All conclusions should be linked to evidence produced in the main body of text. If you have material in the conclusion that doesn't relate to preceding evidence - take it out!
- All conclusions should explicitly answer the research question outlined in the introduction.
Reflection
This initial outline will help be begin to write my dissertation. I think I need to set myself some reasonable goals to achieve so that motivation isn't lost, and it progresses at a successful rate. Doing related research will definitely help me to flesh out this initial draft outline, as I am well aware it is very vague at the moment.
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