Background Research Chapter
Our background research chapters were due Friday. Here’s mine, in a semi-completed form - the very end still contains an outline of further areas for elaboration and discussion, and some of the citations aren’t complete.
Dave Chiu – Background Research Chapter (v_4).pdf
After conversations with Victor and Tristam on Thursday, I believe I will have to work on re-framing my arguments and repositioning my thesis. Specifically, talking about sustainability first and then the specific interaction design areas and components I’d like to address as relating to complex systems seems to have the effect of making people’s eyes bug out at the mention of sustainability and subsequently ignore anything that comes afterwards.
The revised strategy consists of talking about specific interaction design areas and components as relating to complex systems and then using sustainability as a case study for a complex system. I’m of course still very much interested in and motivated by sustainability, and yes, this project spawned from my interest in sustainability, but talking about sustainability in and of itself doesn’t further the conversation concerning my thesis.
After rereading the material I’ve included thus far in the background research chapter, and after going over my Thesis Proposal again and finding it entirely supports this emphasis on systems and communication and interaction design, I am comfortable with rearranging material within the background research chapter to better reflect my ultimate intentions. Now I just need to do it…