Framing : what are we working on and what encouraged us doing so ?
the general theme --- explicit formulation of the disciplinary field in which our work/contribution will take place
the context --- a phenomenon or a situation that is interesting for us, situated in time and space
why we think it's an interesting topic ?
Problem statement / Challenge : what is not working as we think it should ?
how things should work ? what knowledge would be interesting to have ?
description of the problem, or the missing knowledge, and how it showed up [NB : may need a study to validate the need with methods like these]
the motivation --- why solving that is important ?
Bibliography : what have already been done, and what there's still to do ?
very short introduction to the school of thought / community of practice in which our contribution will take place
who worked on some aspects of the problem we've identified ? How ? What was their goal ? What did they manage to achieve ? What did they miss ? [NB : describe these works regarding several aspects or "dimensions", on which you'll be able to compare these past contributions. That process builds up what we call a "design space"] [NB : find a balance between presenting the most recent works, the "state-of-the-art", and the most important past contributions, the "seminal works"]
Position statement : how do we identify the work we're doing, compared to what has already been done ?
the position --- what part of the problem we want to address / act on ? what specific part of the "design space" we want to explore (compared to the works presented in the bibliography) ? what is the bad effect we want to counter ? or the good effect we want to foster ? or the knowledge we want to contribute to ?
the target --- what people / users are concerned ?
Research question : what are we aiming to ?
a precise question that we want to answer (all the rest of our work will tend to answer that question)
the hypotheses --- what we expect, given what we already know from the litterature
Design
what we started from (data, frameworks, existing designs, etc.) ?
what we developped to validate / invalidate our hypothesis ?
a grounded explanations for the design choices
a precise description of the use / activity [NB : that can be done with storyboards, user journeys, etc.]
Protocol : how we will validate that we've reached our aim ?
what we will measure / analyze ? how ? [NB : could be quantitative (measuring an effect) or qualitative (describing and catacterizing a phenomenon, observing tendances, identifying patterns), a field study or a lab study, free or controlled, etc.] [NB : the methods and apparatus should be precisely described, including materials, methods, scripts for studies and questions for surveys, etc.]
Analysis : what have we observed / measured / validated ?
a description of the effects / phenomena we've observed and measured
what conclusion do we draw from that analysis ?
how does it answer our research question and validate/invalidate our hypothesis
Future work : what is the territory for further contributions ?
implications for design
perspectives to continue our work and provide additional contributions (allows to position our contribution more precisely, by explaining what else could be explored/validated, in comparison to what we already explored/validated)