Yesterday, you diagnosed your research architecture.
Today, you test whether your methodology can support that structure.

Methodological alignment must reflect your project’s developmental phase. A design appropriate for early prototyping (e.g., DBR cycles, feasibility testing, usability observation) differs fundamentally from designs appropriate for mechanism testing, evaluation, or implementation research. Today, you refine that alignment.

Ambition without alignment collapses:

• You cannot claim evaluation-level impact with development-level methods.

• You cannot claim implementation without credible data strategy.

• You cannot claim translation without ethical discipline.

Day 2 Objective

By the end of today, you will be able to:

• Analyze whether your methodological design matches your research question and research phase.

• Evaluate whether your data strategy truly captures your theoretical constructs.

• Identify XR-specific ethical and governance vulnerabilities.

• Construct a coherent Methods & Ethics Blueprint section.

• Revise your project in response to structural critique.
  
  

Without credible methodological alignment, translational planning becomes premature.

Alignment Principle

• Your methods must match your question.

• Your design must match your phase.

• Your evidence must justify your ambition.