RESEARCH
Survey Findings #2 Week 09: October 01 to October 07, 2012
BACKGROUND
OBJECTIVES
After 1st round of survey research, I have the basic understanding of students’ opinions towards working in school. However in order to get a more specific respond, I went ahead to refine the survey. I make most of the questions in the structure of closed questions so it is easier for students to answer them accordingly.
To find out: - Design students’ preferences of a workspace; how much physical space in general do they feel they need to have in order to better support their design process? - The problems that design students faced working in school and how does workspace affect designers in their creative thinking?
My research is to gather first hand information from design students on how workspace affects their thinking ability and work performance. In turn, how does this workspace defines and influences their creative thought process and work performance.
These objectives are based on the 3 key issues: 1. How does physical space affect thinking potential and ability; what is the size of space in relative to the quality of thinking?
As students spend an increasingly amount of time working in school, I would also like to find out what are the problems students faced due to the constraints of physical space.
2. How does workspace defines and influences creative thoughts process and work performance? 3. What are the constraints of physical space and its problems and effects on design students?
* On a side note: I learnt the way of structuring the project’s survey questions from the book: How to develop a questionnaire by Bill Gillham
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