Design Research Dissertation #3 Fixing Literature Review

 Design research Dissertation

Date : Apr/17/2023

Name : Mabuchi Arata

Lecture : Video and Sound Production

Lecturer's name : DR Noorhayati Saad

ID : 0351579 

1, Introduction

In this week, we are going to start to writing a draft work of data analysis from the data gathered in previous week. We already completed to make a Literature Matrix review about the document we used for previous research to analyse all information that can be related to the my main idea for research topic and expand the ideas for research dissertation.

2, Point where I missed

The MIB told us that since week 1 to week 7, we have to collect all datas we've got from both primary/secondary research in previous design research module to analyse research problem foind from past design research document. First, we must evaluate primary/secondary research we've already done and find a further question.

Firstly, I want to take notes that I need to state the contents that I have to include in my draft dissertation, the Module Information Booklet says that Draft Dissertation must include things shown below. :

• Acknowledgements

• Abstract

• Table of Contents page

• Introduction to the dissertation

  o Research Rational, Research Theme/Topic and Research Problem

  o Problem statement

  o Research objectives

  o Research questions

  o Research Conceptual Framework Diagram

• Literature review

• Research Methodology

• Results/ Findings

• Analysis and discussion

• Conclusion

• Project Recommendation / Future Research

• Reference list

• Picture credit list

• Appendices (sample interview questions and questionnaire questions)

These are the points that I have to include in dissertation draft and these are the my draft dissertation subheaders that I found from document analysis I've done in the last week.

・Process of character design. 

・Character design elements

  ・Influence of game target to designs 

  ・Influence of gameplay to the character design/settings 

  ・Influence of narrative settings and character design from participant' assigned occupations. 

  ・Influence of character settings to the character design in video games. 

    ・Stereotype of personality representation from visual design and its expectations.

    (Way to visualise character's personalities from visual outlook)

    ・Can personality be influenced by different ways of speech?

    ・Impact of background where characters participate in the character settings.

      ・Background analysis for video games immersion to players.

        ・Influence of psychological identification※ to the character identification.

    ・Personality representation except outlook (Way not to rely on visual design)

    (Other way to represent character's personalities)

    ・Relationship between role for character and design of video game characters.

  ・How education level of character to be designed may change design of them?

・Player's identification themselves with video game characters

  ・Visual attributes for character design that can affect identification process. 

  ・Features that may affect player's identification with video game characters. 

  ・Impact of visual outlook details to the character's identification for players.  

※(Characteristics, Personalities, Other psychological information)

Once i organise all points I've got from MIB and further documents exploration, I am finally able to write my Draft Dissertation from beginning.

3, My current Dissertation Draft Progress

When I tried to start typing Acknowledgement and abstract for my dissertation draft and today class was over, Dr Hayati told me that I made a huge mistake in Literature Review and Section 2's process. In section 2, We are all going to start a Literature review ,as the title suggest, literature reviewis the section that analyse all document I used in the previous research section, however, whan I tried it, I found it that I made a wrong review that I had to analyse all of document to find ou article's similarities and Differences, then We must start to write Sub-Topics about Literature Review. I completely made a huge mistakes so I have now delay of my work.

Luckly, I already made a point of each document and I've already made points of document you may already know as shown above, therefore I can use all references I've made to complete this mistake-fixing.

The point I missed is that I had to make a 700-800 words summary about the document I used for my design reseach.

4, Literature Review

To create my literature review, I read all of document I used as references for design research document. I made underlines for all keyords that I may think they are useful for my literature review, then I summarise all keywords I got in the literature matrix and convert all points Ive got into the document shown below.

5, Primary Methodology.

Once I finally complete all of my literature review in the way I should have done, I shift my work to create methodology. To explain about this, I had to summarize all research held by my own for design research. In my term 2, I send he video game characters designers to anser alll of questions that may heklps my work I have done.

I mainly focused in google forms in my reseach anbout the answers I mostly get fr each.