Concept design

Supervisor meeting Decemeber

Supervisor Meeting 29th Novemeber

I have just received more questionnaires back. In the meeting we went over the literature review so far and came up with several ideas. By the next supervisor meeting I need to have finished the review. I have also been looking for origami for the back of my CV.

The next supervisor meeting is December 13Th. In this meeting we are going to set out what work needs to be completed over the December and January period.

update

Last week I have been checking up on my last two clients and how far the questionnaires are coming. I am also planning my interview for my main client.

Friday 16th supervisor meeting

During brake in virtual environments lecture I had another supervisor meeting. This meeting went as well as could be expected seen as a series of events led to my work being deleted. All the work was retyped Friday morning, however this meant I did not have time to finish my literature review.

During this meeting we went over my introduction and its pros and cons.
We also talked about how many questionnaires I had sent out and received back. I have sent out seventy which is quite a lot but I am still waiting for forty to be returned by two surgeries.

Between now and next meeting I need to re-write my introduction and finish writing my review. By then I would also like to have all my questionnaires back in and start analysing the data. I have also started thinking about my main clients interview.

Writing My Introduction and Other Updates

Today I have started writing up my introduction along with my literature review. I have not got as far as I wanted as I have also been working on my DFMA project. Tomorrow I will continue writing these part.

Today I also emailed my supervisor to organise our next meeting as we didn't sort this last meeting.

On the questionnaire front i am still waiting on the last forty to come back from two of my surgeries.

Analysing Data

Today I've bee analysing my data from my journals and books. After reading the journals I have found several facts about the age of onset for anxiety in dental care. I have also been researching several subject areas that came up in the journals.

The first key area is the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS). This has come in very useful as when typed into a search engine a lot more information comes up which i require for my dissertation. I found the questionnaire to work out the dental anxiety scale so now the information in the journals can be analysed further. I can now compare the levels of anxiety found on this scale as well as the percentage for the age of onset.

Another key element brought forward from my research is relaxation and different types of therapies. This links to some of the results from the questionnaires as a lot of people said they would like relaxation or therapeutic techniques to be used when at the dentist.

I have read through the questionnaires and next I am going to collate the data to create charts and diagrams of the results.