Print Email Facebook Twitter Teaching principles of qualitative analysis to industrial design engineers Title Teaching principles of qualitative analysis to industrial design engineers Author Stappers, P.J. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-12-31 Abstract Doing qualitative field research has become a standard part of academic human-centered design education. Part of the challenge is to bring design students a thorough understanding of research methods, and practical skills in performing small scale user research as part of design projects. This involves understanding and ability at interpreting data, categorizing information, and appreciating how theories are built. This paper reports on an exercise sequence in which students go through the analysis process of a transcript from a field study, and discusses how a relatively simple exercise can serve to equip students with both a practical know-how of carrying out analysis as well as instantiation and experience for discussing underlying concepts such as triangulation, abstraction levels, and the relations between data, information, and knowledge Subject qualitative research, analysis, design research, method To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:23c02d11-13dc-48dd-84ad-af7007c3424c Publisher The Design Society, Institution of Engineering Designers ISBN 978-1-904670-36-0 Source Design education for future wellbeing: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on engineering and product design education (E&PDE 2012), Antwerp (Belgium), 6-7 Sept., 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 Stappers, P.J. Files PDF 283999.pdf 329.58 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:23c02d11-13dc-48dd-84ad-af7007c3424c/datastream/OBJ/view