March 8th Work on Research Design

I am really trying to get both a fisable resarch topic as well as a uniquie and intresting one. I am very into movie technologhy, well technology period I suppose. Here is an original email clip of my what I first wanted as a formal idea for this project:
I want to illustrate how video phones as a design are changing the way emotion is felt through communication on the phone.
For example, until a relatively short time a go we were used to using cord phones. Imagine cord’s on phones! Now there’s blue tooth and all wireless technology. With this new tech, people are able to travel far from their homes and yet keep all close contacts with them. One can text during a meeting, call during a taxi ride and send pictures well basically whenever. In fact cell phones now can write a text or a picture then wait until there is signal strength to send. Now it is pretty obvious how travel friendly cell phones have become. What I want to research is how their design, be it a computer on the go, helps drastically with communication boosting long loved relationships in an emotional manner.
How can I do this paper?
This question allows me to reflect on some of the reading made in the last week and a half. This week’s readings have focused on how one must step away from preconceived notions about a product or way of life in order to have as clean a mental state to harness a good design as possible. I have read other students writings this week and a trend seems to be that the above statement is easier said than done. I could not agree more. How does one have a clean slate then analyze the end like Dorothy Deasy’s explains in the essay “Non-Assumptive Research?” I am a terrible technology freak, how then do I keep my assumptions at bay? Here are my ideas for this research’s methodologies.

I have a lot of friends who strictly use their cell phones for the only phone they have? Why is that? Is the technology that convienent or is it too expensive to house other phones?

For work, cell phones are used to highten communication during travel. What designs in the phone itself help to ease communication when traveling?
Finally, how do cell phones make a family more in touch?

Now that I have truly wrote down ideas in a rambling way I wish to write a new sentence that fits my research idea better. Maybe.
How has cell phone design made telephone communication more personal among its users?

One last tid bit I found was intresting in my own life regarding this weeks readings is that we learned to be a good designer by someties seeking out a culture of design. We are doing this in our SL meetings. Researches working with other researchers to better their work is SL in itself for this class. Also, in my own life I will be heading to Madison this April for the WI Film Fest, what a great creative outlet for a film designer. To be around others who share a similar passion, is this not our readings and why we are taking this course?