Design Research 2008_09

THESIS SUBMISSION

2009-02-12T00:52:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder of the thesis submission date:

Date: Monday, February 16th, 2009
Time: 11am - 12am ONLY
Venue: Dr. Mai's room (Room 1047 Ground Floor, FCM)

Please submit the following to me:
1. FA, ID, DM and MI (Group 2) Majors: 1 CD containing all your past assignments and softcopy of your final thesis. DO NOT submit any hardbound copy to me.
2. MI Group 1 (Dr. Mai's consultation group): 1 hardbound thesis and 1 CD
3. VR (Madam Natalya's group): I will collecting your 1 CD and 1 hard bound copy for Madam Natalya on her behalf. So you will be submitting 2 CDs to me on Monday.
4. Please do not forget to sign your Declaration page in your thesis!
5. Sign the submission sheet in Dr. Mai's office.

Reps, please take note and pass the info to your colleagues.

Thank you.

regards,
Dr. Mai

Collection of Feedback

2009-01-10T19:53:00.000-08:00

Dr Mai,

May i know when and where can I collect my SRI feedback from you?
The memo that u sent out last week was too short on notice. I wasn't in campus, so i couldn't collect it then.

Michelle.

Report 1

2008-12-14T15:00:00.000-08:00

I have finished marking the Reports 1 and I want everyone to come to the consultation class tomorrow at 2pm to disccus them. We will not be having the consultation per group. I will be holding the consultation in the lecture class from 2-4pm and we will discuss your report 1 as a whole.

Attendance is compulsory.

There are still MANY of you who are getting your referencing and citations wrong. Consult the references I have here for you before consultation. I would like to NOT see these mistakes repeated in the next report.

Also, why do some of you hand in your reports with no title to your research?????

be prepared for an indepth discussion tomorrow during consultation time. Everybody please be there at 2pm.

Thank you.

regards,
Dr. Mai

2008-12-14T05:25:00.000-08:00

Just to inform everyone... we won't be doing a "preface" so make sure your table of contents doesn't include this. :)

Rgrds,
Heidi

Citattions and Referencing

2008-12-08T14:53:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

Here is a site for you to look at to know how to reference and cite your sources:

1. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxc/refs/index.html

This class is using the American Psychological Association (APA) style of referencing:

2. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/learning/g_apaguide.shtml#how

Please go to the MMU IPS Website for additional information on how to cite/reference your sources:

3. http://www.mmu.edu.my/ips/

Please take note as the formatting and referencing of your thesis is VERY important!

Happy research!

Dr. Boss

Research Methodology readings

2008-12-08T14:02:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

Some sites with additional research methodology readings you can refer to. These ones are easy and simple enough to understand the process and will give you an idea of how you can use different methods to collect data.

1. http://www.languages.ait.ac.th/el21meth.htm (writing up your research)
2. http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/(resources for research methods)
3. http://www.whatisasurvey.info/ (how to do surveys)
4. http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ssc/publications/guides/toptgs.html (how to present your research results)
5. http://wilderdom.com/qualitative.html (for info in qualitative research)

Look at these resources to see how you can incorporate that in your writeups.

Happy research!

Dr. Boss :-)

Report 1 Submission

2008-12-08T13:52:00.000-08:00

Dear MI Group 1,

Submission of Report 1 (Abstract, TOC and Chapter 1) is postponed to Monday, Dec 15, 2008, from 11am - 1pm.

Please submit to Ms. Siti or Ms. Jariah in the FCM Admin Office during that period.

Please remember to sign the submission sheet when you drop off your report. If you are having a friend submit for you, please make sure they sign on your behalf. Consultation will be as usual on Tuesday, where I will give you back your feedback on Report 1.

In the meantime, please continue to writeup your other chapters, especially your Literature Review chapter, in preparation for your Report 2 submission the following week. Those who need to read up on methodologies, please download the notes from the class website http://pesona.mmu.edu.my/~neomai/sri/, under the Assignment section (Report 2 requirements).

Please make sure you format your chapters properly and staple your reports.

Best of luck!

regards,
Dr. Boss

URGENT: Proposal Feedback.

2008-12-03T00:42:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

Please be at Dr. Ken Neo's office tomorrow (THURS, 4th Dec) morning at 10AM to collect your proposal feedback AND SIGN the collection sheet.

Dr. Ken Neo's office: room 2045

Thank you!

Heidi

Book Recommendation

2008-12-01T08:23:00.000-08:00

Dear all,

I had come accross this book in library and might useful to those who are dealing with characteristic of consumer. I found it was quite useful for you to understand what consumer think about a particular product and some of their behaviour.

The book name is Consumer Behaviour in Asia. You can found it in library, I found few copies there but not that sure whether is it still available. They are several good comparison between asia and western consumers. And you will find it was quite true as we are asian as well!

Enjoy!

Regards,

Yeeling

Hello all!

2008-11-19T09:45:00.000-08:00

Hi and welcome to those who have signed on to this blog....:-)

Let's try to use this as a forum for discussing your design research progress. Post your enquiries here and if anyone has any comments or feddback that would help the person who enquired, please do so. Writing your thesis may be an individual's job, but the research process can be a collaborative effort. And we are a community here on this blog, right? :-)

Anyway, i will moderate and monitor the posts and answer any enquiries that you may have from time to time. Hopefully these feedback and comments will be beneficial to your work.

So to start it off, just a quick recap of what to expect during our consultation times.

1. Form your study groups and try to meet as a group once a week to discuss your progress BEFORE you see me during your appointed consultation time. This will help to make our meeting time more efficient.

2. Please adhere to formatting rules. This will become very important once we get started on your Report 1.

3. Don't forget what goes into your Assignment 1: Proposal, Gantt Chart, Research Questions and a copy of your approved FYP.

4. We will be discussing Report 1 next week during consultation so please meet your research groups.

5. For lecture next Tuesday, please read the 5-page conference paper by Gerald Shortland-Webb and try to answer these:

Who did this research?
Why was this research done?
What was the research issue?
What was the research objective?
What were the research question(s)?
How did the researcher go about collecting the data?
What did the research find?
What was the recommendation(s)?

OK, thats all for now....looking forward to seeing your progress.

Dr. Boss