How you should categorise your readings and start your research proposal

- Reading too much makes you lost cause theres too much
- Know what your research interest first hen build your reading list
- Find a methodology or framework you want to adapt into your work
- Eg interested in book binding → history→ methods→ what goes into book binding (key essential facts)→ production methods
- From there you break it down into smaller parts and subcategories, pick the parts that interest you to narrow down your readings
- Synthetsize thoughts through the lens of design, things can be very theoretical or philosophical. Think about it in the lens of design, emoting can be thought of as a way of communicating in design
- For instance emotions, you need to have technical applications research which is machine learning( a method to execute it)
- Read about things, try the methods out and see if it works or doesn't
- Create a little tree of what you’re currently interested in
- Find an anchor in your interest so you don’t stray too far
- Adopting frameworks and methodologies but with a different geographical lens - Try different methods and see how they fit into your research, adapt them to suit your needs cause one method if not enough, so you need multiple to back it up.
- When theories overlap, when you see theories from differe readings connecting and supporting each other, you can see indirect links and synthesize across different topics

Introduction

- Introduction can be effective computing, what is the emotions, how to portray the emotions, keep it broad (what you researched from the readings and how the relate) eg a way of determining facial recognition is through emotions

Summary of readings

- Summary of readings is where you dive deeper into each framework, show your understanding of your topic eg. what is each emotion) show a deeper understanding of the introduction, back up what you are writing with your readings like literature review ( don't need to argue your points- theres 8 emotions as defined by this person)
- Effective computing as referred to in the sense of this group of people and effective computing in the sense of another group of people
- Structure of summary of readings is like defining the subcategories that you introduce in the introduction. Show that these readings are relevant to the topic

Research Objective

- Objective is where you link the summary reading -this concept and this theory, how does it go together. What would you like to get out of this research
- Because of (ive done all these research, it makes sense)…, how does this bring ( be done at this level)

Approaches and methods

- The three frameworks where you choose one which is the approach for this section - The approach is the umbrella and theres a few different approaches - Critical journal is your own work as the context which you use to reflect on over time ( your own experience) -prototyping can be a method -experimentation interviews(other peoples experience) Case studies ( analytical based on someon else results)