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Visualizing the Research Process: A Participatory Design Study for Developing Research Data Management Library Services
Eleanor Mattern,1,2 Wei Jeng,1 Liz Lyon,1 Daqing He,1 and Aaron Brenner2
1 University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences, 2 University of Pittsburgh Library System
I. Setting the StageII. Visualizing the Research
Process in Participants’ Disciplines
III. Reviewing the Research
Process Visualizations
IV. Enhancing the Sketches
V. Reviewing the RDM Services, Tools, or
Resources VI. Debriefing
Methodology
• Methodology and findings from a pilot study
exploring early career researchers’
visualizations of the research process in
their disciplines
• Visualizations prompt participants’ ideas
for new RDM library services
• Draws on a methodology termed visual
narrative inquiry which uses storytelling
to study individuals’ experiences (Bach
2008; Bowler et al, 2014)
• How do early career researchers
visually conceptualize the
research process in their
disciplines?
• What does visual narrative
inquiry reveal about participants’
RDM needs?
• What does visual narrative
Inquiry reveal about their
recommendations for RDM
services?
Introduction Research Questions
Preliminary Results and Conclusions
References
• Bach, H. (2008). Visual Narrative Inquiry. In Givens (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods (pp. 939-941). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
• Bowler, L, et al. C. (2014). Developing design interventions for cyberbullying: A narrative-based participatory approach. In iConference 2014 Proceedings.
Participants in Pilot Focus Group
ID Status Discipline Structure of
Research
Process in
Sketch
Examples of RDM
Service
Recommendations
A Doctoral
Candidate in
Dissertation
Stage
Information
Science
Research
Process as
Flow Chart
Catalog of shared
datasets
B Postdoctoral
Researcher
Library and
Information
Sciences
(LIS)
Research
Process as
Mind Map
Librarian role in
integrating information
on RDM best practices
into methods courses
C Postdoctoral
Researcher
Research
Process as
Linear Course
RDM workshop on best
practices for qualitative
researchers
D Postdoctoral
Researcher
Research
Process as
Linear Course
No RDM services
recommended
▲Stage IV: Participants went back into their
sketches and used Post-It notes to mark where in
the research process a library service would help
them with data needs
▲Stage III. Participants were prompted to talk about what is happening with their
data during their verbal explanations of the drawings (Participant C)
▲Participant B : Research process as
mind map, with all stages beginning
and ending with world view▲Participant A: Research process
as flowchart
• Researchers visualize the research process
differently even in the same or closely related
disciplines
• Two participants included RDM as a single stage
(see Participant B and C sketches)
• Participants were self-aware that there is room for
improvement in their RDM practices and welcomed
assistance from the library
• RDM service recommendations included web-based
resources, workshops and consultation support
• Not all recommended services related to RDM