website that I’ve been looking for!

seniors.gov.au is the website and information that I’ve been looking FOR!!!

YAY for me!

seniors.gov.au

People who are over 55 in the UK, they said that

• Technology is viewed as potentially playing a crucial role in health matters for people
• Two-thirds of all age groups say technology has a positive influence on their lives
• 58% of over – 65s said technology made life better
• Half of over – 50s said life without the net was unimaginable.
• 43% search for long-lost or distant friends and family
• Some older and lower income people felt alienated from digital life.

from seniors.gov.au

ethnography and other things

I changed some of my liki page today. I am reading books about research and new technology and it is giving me better ideas to find the way for my research project.
I will start from ethnography that is based on design research rather than folklore. I know I am not going to design the product but Design Research methodology is very related to my project. Design Research is about Research what people need shortly. And from the opinions and interviews, designer can design the products that are focused on people’s needs.
I haven’t finished the books and prints yet. Whenever I finish the reading I will put more information into my liki and also references.

I feel better now because at least I find the starting point.

things that i have to think

• find the research methodology clearly
• find the research model that I am going to use for my research project (for this, I got email address of authors of one of the books that I’ve read)
• make sure the direction of my research
• cut the fat of research

• think about the back ground of research -why I want to do this research
• think about the contents that I want to make or develop
• reduce the STRESS
• keep asking questions to anyone about anything I don’t understand clearly
  
• think positive all the time

lost

it sounds stupid maybe, but I sill can’t find the way and I am still thinking what I have to do for my research project. I feel anxious a lot and I get stress, heavy and BIG stress.

I can’t sleep at night and I can’t do anything without thinking about the proejct.

Am I stupid? Yeah maybe?

Please let me find the WAY soon! I don’t want to be there too late…

Very hard time for me, now. Very hard.

*BIG sigh*

A friend

My close friend, yeah i can say best friend, she is studying colours and psychology in Germany. Yeah it sounds really complicated for me ‘colours and psychology’ and she is studying in German. We talk almost everyday on MSN and I talked her about my problem of the research project. She just told me that

“you should enjoy the problems that you’ve found and you can’t run away from them.”

I answered,

“I am now quite scary whether I can do or not. you know what? I kind of lost my confidence about this research project. I found so many problems so far and I don’t know where I can go”

She said,

“I also got problems every day and I totally understand what you feel. but Jung, we have to overcome, and if it is necessary to do it again from the beginning, we need to empty our HEAD then start it again”

I said,

“Yeah I know and I understand in physically but mentally, it is hard to do it”

It is happy that I have a friend who can share the ‘feeling’ even though we are FAR FROM each other now.

And both of us know that we have to enjoy the problems. (:

problememo

I found today (yeah it is very late but it is worth to find) that I can be much more active to do my research when I found the problems. So I am going to write the problems of research project to my blog, HERE.

I hope that anyone who read this problememo can make any comments for me.

brainstorming

brainstorming

i did today, 24.04.2008,  not 25/04/08

rewind

I thought i know what i have to and what i am doing very well before but now I am not. After got advice from Adrian about my research project, I found myself was not on the right track. I don’t mean that i was WRONG but I have to think about my research project much more carefully than before. I got very HUGE stress after that and I feel kind of I am lost. But it is good problem and stress because I still have time to change the notion of my research project.

I didn’t expect that my research project will be gone easily but it is too early to face with the BIG problem. I enjoy the risks but it is still hard to overcome it. But I will work on my research project from now on and I feel better now. I just did some brainstorming after having lunch today and I will research about the history of mobile contents and mobile phone today.

I don’t know but whenever I explain about my ideas and process of research,I always nervous and anxious. Sometimes I want to be a good speaker in front of people, or maybe because of my English.??

Well, I’ve been here for more than 4 years but…still….I feel stressful when I can’t speak fluently.

well well well

lets do it

Plan for Web page

This is my plan for my online documentary web page of Transient Spaces.
I have to play with Dream Weaver for the main page’s link problem and I will find out about this.
My web page is going to be very simple because “SIMPLE IS THE BEST!”.
I am going to use less than 3 colours and I will put as many photos as I can but I will not put the LONG duration videos a lot. I will put NICE videos rather than put EVERY VIDEOS that I’ve got.
Also I have to draw the map for our trip plan as well.
Well, there are a lot of things to do but I enjoying a lot.