Publications related to Research design

Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Romain Simon Collaud, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Technology supporting meditation is a multimillion-dollar market that continues to grow. There is also strong academic interest to understand and improve the impact technology can have for the user experience of practitioners. However, little work investig ...

2023

The emotional entanglements of smartphones "in the field": on social positioning, power relations, and research ethics

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Darshan Santani

Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartph ...

2020

The Impact of Gender on Engineering Students' Group Work Experiences

Roland John Tormey, Siara Ruth Isaac

Women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering education, a cultural milieu which is stereotypically seen as a masculine domain. Laboratory studies and some questionnaire-based studies suggest being numerically under- or overrepresented in stud ...

Tempus Publications2019

Data-driven Measurement Designs for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Baran Gözcü

Despite being a powerful medical imaging technique which does not emit any ionizing radiation, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) always had the major problem of long scanning times that can take up to an hour depending on the application. It also requires u ...

EPFL2019

Understanding the Social Implications of the Digital Transformation: Insights from Four Case Studies on the Role of Social Innovation to Foster Resilience of Society, Electronic Participation

Gianluigi Viscusi, Gianluca Carlo Misuraca

This paper advances further the analysis of previous exploratory research conducted by the authors on how social innovation can foster resilience in a digital governance context. The process of innovation in social policy, as well as the building of resili ...

Springer2018

Towards Novel Researcher Tooling Based on Multimodal Analytics

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Much of educational research today employs a complex mixture of qualitative and quantitative analyses, both during the exploratory and confirmatory phases. However, researchers are still stuck with tools that were developed mainly for single-perspective re ...

2017

Design for Passivity in the Z-Domain for LCL Grid-Connected Converters

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández

This paper develops a design methodology aimed to shape passive the admittance of the LCL grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs). A novel aspect of this work is the assessment of the range of frequencies for control design: due to discrete and PWM ...

2016

Research Through Design: What Does it Mean for a Design Artefact to be Developed in the Scientific Context?

Jeffrey Huang, Selena Savic

The use of design artefacts in research is a debatable topic which raises important questions about the different approaches to design research and legitimate ways of knowledge production. Research through design normally involves construction of a design ...

STS Italia Publishing2014

Research Through Design: What Does it Mean for a Design Artefact to be Developed in the Scientific Context?

Jeffrey Huang, Selena Savic

The use of design artefacts in research is a debatable topic which raises important questions about the different approaches to design research and legitimate ways of knowledge production. Research through design normally involves construction of a design ...

STS Italia Publishing2014