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Our final meeting at MOSI was quite an adventure. At many points, I felt like I was part of a Looney Tunes cartoon and at some point someone was going to pull out an ACME anvil. This is not to say that the meeting was cartoonish, just that, as the culmination of a semester-long project, [...]

Today I made my second trip to MOSI to collect data. I am focusing primarily on dwell times, as that was something D (our contact there) was very curious about. After a visitor or group is done with the exhibits we are looking at, I introduce myself as a researcher from USF and ask them [...]

Breaking the Rules Kitchen Stories is a film about friendship and human interaction yet contains subtexts that are important for research. I’m sure this film wasn’t created to be a commentary on objectivity in research, yet it is ironic that 65 years after the setting of this film and despite the intrusive high chair in [...]

My first thought about Action Research is that it is very much like certain implementations of design-based research; both methods require collaborative relationships with the person or entity with the need, emphasize creating a process (or in design-based research, sometimes a product) that can self-sustain without the researcher, and aim to inspire some sort of [...]

I had a great time at MOSI on Tuesday. So much of what they have in the works there aligns perfectly with my research interests. I think the match is ultimately both a benefit and a hindrance. for one, I am really a doer. During the conversation, Wit mentioned to get the text service up [...]