This week
we did not have a seminar like the ones the previous weeks, we were supposed to
have two lectures instead. But because of Haibo’s lecture being reschedule we
only had one lecture with Eva-Lotta Sallnäs.
In the lecture she talked about her research in the field of Haptics. I thought the lecture would be more about qualitative/quantitative methods and objective/subjective methods since that is what the pre-reflection was about. But that was not really the case, instead she talked about the different studies she had done and was doing. It was interesting although I had preferred that she talked more about the questions we had answered in the pre-reflection.
She talked a little about qualitative and quantitative studies in the beginning and how one can get quantitative results from qualitative data and vice versa. That was really interesting but also a bit confusing. I already have a hard time separating those two methods, although I believe I have gotten better at it after our seminars, so it made it even more confusing when they can be mixed up like that. But I also think it is good to know that when you do a qualitative study it is not sure that the answers are qualitative, which puts more pressure on the one making the study. One need to really look through the methods and test them before actually using them, so that one can be sure to get the right kind of answers.
In the lecture she talked about her research in the field of Haptics. I thought the lecture would be more about qualitative/quantitative methods and objective/subjective methods since that is what the pre-reflection was about. But that was not really the case, instead she talked about the different studies she had done and was doing. It was interesting although I had preferred that she talked more about the questions we had answered in the pre-reflection.
She talked a little about qualitative and quantitative studies in the beginning and how one can get quantitative results from qualitative data and vice versa. That was really interesting but also a bit confusing. I already have a hard time separating those two methods, although I believe I have gotten better at it after our seminars, so it made it even more confusing when they can be mixed up like that. But I also think it is good to know that when you do a qualitative study it is not sure that the answers are qualitative, which puts more pressure on the one making the study. One need to really look through the methods and test them before actually using them, so that one can be sure to get the right kind of answers.
I've also had a hard time separating quantitative methods and qualitative, but through this course i have found a way that I can separate them.
SvaraRaderaQuantitative methods is a wide method,and by wide I mean that you have a lot of test subjects, that all of them have to answer the same question which later can be transcribed into raw data that can be examined. Quantitative methods only answers IF you are correct.
Qualitative methods are kind of the opposite, you have a small number of subjects, which you often interview and adapt you questions through the process. The qualitative methods can be applied to you quantitative finding s to try and find WHY your quantitative findings were correct or not.
the definition above is mainly for quantitative/qualitative surveys, but their internal theory can be applied to all kinds of usage of quantitative and qualitative methods.
I also got confused at first when I realized that it is possible both to gain quantitative and qualitative data from the same data!
SvaraRaderaI also felt that the lecture didn’t fulfill my expectations, but I on the other hand had thought that the lecture would be more about prototypes than quantitative/qualitative methods, haha.
Hi!
SvaraRaderaI believe that wether a method is qualitative or quantitative is maybe not so important to decide. What is important is how the results influence your research and what you choose to look at.