RESEARCH METHOD
74 Secondary Research
Secondary research consists of information collected and synthesized from existing data, rather than original material sourced through primary research with participants.
While human-centered design generally implies primary research with users, secondary research can also be a critical component of the project, establishing what has already been done and what hasn’t, gathering comparison data, and helping to suggest a research direction or methods that should be used in the current study. Secondary research is sometimes referred to as desk research, in contrast to primary research conducted as fieldwork, ...
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