By Salu Ylirisku (March 1st, 2010)
In his seminar presentation Salu Ylirisku made a point about creating good arguments. The presentation was based on the specific (perhaps it might be called ‘concept generating’) approach that he is following. The slides can be downloaded here [PDF, 2,5 M].
By Tatu Marttila (March 1st, 2010)
There are some web based tools that might be quite valuable for handling the research process and material. Here I’ll list some that I’ve found. Please comment and tell us about the tools that you’ve found from the web, or have found especially helpful in your research process.
Continue reading A Few Web Tools for Research
By Jung-Joo Lee (February 25th, 2010)
By Tjhien Liao (January 27th, 2010)
Initial questions to the topic are:
1. How to project your personal voice and the personal voice of your data (e.g. people you interviewed) through out your manuscript?
2. How to retain your personal voice or the personalities that your data represents?
3. How to balance these voices and how to deal with the big emotions in your interview data?
4. How to address the people, test subjects in your research? These question arose when done a research using probes?
Continue reading Manuscript seminar: On personal voice by Petra Ahde
By Tatu Marttila (January 25th, 2010)
Eila Rämö (head of the information services) from the Aralis library was presenting databases available to us through TaiK and Aalto University networks. Aalto has one organization offering all the library services, and changes will [...]
By Jung-Joo Lee (January 19th, 2010)
The second manuscript seminar was held on “structuring doctoral thesis” on 18th of Jan. 2010. Different approaches for structuring doctoral thesis, such as allocating chapters, role of cases in structuring, and monograph dissertation versus article-based [...]
By Tjhien Liao (January 15th, 2010)
Writing papers is considered your first and foremost responsibility and obligation as a researcher. To get your paper accepted isn’t easy and deserves further attention. Allow your ideas to fluctuate during the writing process. In [...]
By Salu Ylirisku (January 7th, 2010)
Design Connections Doctoral Students’ Art Exhibition at the Valo and Kilo gallery of the University of Lapland 11.1.-28.1.2010.
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By admin (November 30th, 2009)
At the Summer School 2009 Design Connections Doctoral School students were encouraged to work with their research topics in a creative [...]
By admin (November 30th, 2009)
The steering group of Design Connections Graduate School has in its meeting 28th September decided to propose the following persons to be chosen for student positions:
- Karthik Acharya
- Krista Kosonen
- Tjhien Liao
- Tatu Marttila
The Academy [...]