design methodologies & research topics

Design Methodologies&

Research Topics

Directed Research

Student: Yue LiProfessor: Tom Klinkowstein

Directed Research Student: Yue Li Professor: Tom Klinkowstein

Music Search EngineSocial ReadingData PrivacyMETHODOLOGIES TOPICS

?Find Interest Point

General Idea

Revalue the issue

Define the Issue

Taxonomies

Extreme Audience

Variable Factors

Study Recent Dynamics, Look for a Point of Interest



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2Define the Issue to Be Solved

Revalue the Issue

- Predict the Future, See If It Worth A Try - Ask for Advices from Professionals in Different Areas



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Map Out What I Need to Research, Make a Plan



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Study the Group of People Extremely Influenced by the Issue

- Create a Social Network Map of Them

- Study How They Deal with the Issue So Far

- Ask Indirect Questions to Find Their Hidden Desires



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6Taxonomies



7Find Variable Factors in the Future,

Make It as a Breakthrough

- I want to study:What is the public expectation of data privacy

- Question:Because I want to find out how to share information in such a way that privacy and confidentiality are maintained while the data is practically useful

- Conceptual Significance:In order to help my readers understand what is the nature and extent of information privacy.



- I want to study:What makes narratives participatory

- Question:Because I want to find out how to make a reading experience social in the readers’ related fields

- Conceptual Significance:In order to help my readersget the information in a system, not in parts



- I want to study:the way people memorize & store musics

- Question:Because I want to find out how to search musics in the data base

- Conceptual Significance:To help my readers understand how can music search engine be more accessible and innovative, and find a new way to search non-text information



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