Stephen MacNeil
Johanna Okerlund
Celine Latulipe
ABSTRACT
We present an exploration into the use of dimensional reasoning and the creation of research design spaces. We hypothesized that researchers, engaged in open-ended creative problem solving, could adapt the methods of design thinking and design spaces to create dimensionalized research design spaces. To investigate how researchers might explicitly engage in such dimensionalization processes, we created and studied (n=5, n=5) an interactive web-based system for the creation of research design spaces. Our results showed that a 'dimensions-first' approach was difficult for researchers to work with. We then created and studied (n=11) a prototype 'examples-first' approach. Our results suggest that the ability of researchers to explicitly dimensionalize their research areas is quite varied and that significant scaffolding is required to help researchers reason in this way.
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- Dimensional Reasoning and Research Design Spaces
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