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- 1. Life Satisfaction Majid Dadgar Sandeep Makam Emily Strouse William Taylor Design 786 | 2.19.10
- 2. Selection from Original Project Proposal: This research team was formed with the intent of providing all of the participants the opportunity to develop and gain experience in an area of professional research outside of their normal experience. Specifically, experience in the areas including design-led research and participant co-creators are of particular interest. In order to facilitate this desire, a project was devised that bridges the interests of the group members and provides both a personally and professionally stimulating point of interest for each contributor. The project’s direct objective is to gather two small groups of individuals, likely students at The Ohio State University, that are similar in almost all ways except that half of the group will have a condition that deems them medically “Disabled” and the other half will be considered, for the sake of clarity, Normal, or Able. The concept is to then provide a comparative look at the two groups and see if there is a significant difference in the way each group derives satisfaction out of everyday life. Utilizing research tools that depend heavily on the output of participants is key to our understanding of the subjects.
- 3. Stakeholders Original • Students with speech/hearing difficulties • Find them through emails, flyers, Office of Disability Services, professional contacts.
- 4. Stakeholders Issues • The ODS was not the outlet we hoped for. • Flyers went untouched. • Social media outlets were not trafficked highly but did provide some of our best insights. • Realization: finding enough, let alone any, students required to make a comparison is unlikely.
- 5. Stakeholders Revised • A shift in our research objective from a comparison between “disabled” and “abled” students became a simpler exploration of daily life satisfaction and what that means. • We have three excited male co-creators. • We need 3-5 more individuals for a successful make tools session. • The final co-creators will be found from willing undergraduate or graduate design students.
- 6. Process/Methods Do • Original Task: Take a Camera Home: have participant document a day in their life with images that relate to their satisfaction. • Current Task: Gather 6 images either original or preexisting, that show variable levels of personal satisfaction. These will be used again in the make tool session.
- 7. Process/Methods Say • Original Task: Distribute survey to gather data on co-creators and their satisfaction. • Current Task: Survey as introductory task, workbook as more detailed introspection, and finally social media as outlet for co- creators, team, and others to contribute.
- 8. Process/Methods Make • Original Task: Session using velcro make tools to have co-creators dimensionally explore their concepts of satisfaction. • Current Task: Group projects where the surveys, workbooks, and imagery collected from the volunteers are repurposed into session projects.
- 9. Timeline Original • 1/15.........................make contacts, distribute flyers • 1/22..............................survey, tweet, facebook, blog • 2/5...............................................send a camera home • 2/19..................................make tools, presentation 2 • 3/12...................................................final presentation
- 10. Timeline Revised • 2/19............................presentation, workbook • 2/26.....................................................six photos • 3/5........................................make tools session • 3/12........................................final presentation
- 11. Deliverables • Blog: summary and analysis of quarter’s work. It will include all data gathered and commentary about process. • Make tools, Images, Social media content, workbook, survey, presentations.
- 12. Next Steps • Retain interested co-creators and obtain 3-5 more participants for final make tools. • Administer new workbook and photo task. • Finalize and execute make tools session. Thank you