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Introduction to Research Assignment - Proposal, Literature Review, Research Method, Ethics

TOPIC - CYBER SECURITY

Assignment - Follow the template and steps below to complete your literature review, research method and ethics proposal. Remove any instructions provided, and replace them with the information required.

Title of the project (A tentative title of selected research)

1. Abstract -

• Summary of the knowledge gap: problems of the existing research
• Aim of the research, summary of what this project is to achieve
• Summary of the approach or methodology and innovation
• Summary of the expected outcomes and significance

The above four points need to be clearly stated, each have at least 2 sentences. The approach/method part needs to have minimum 4 sentences.

2. Introduction

An overview of the existing research relating to the proposed research. You must summarise how the proposed research enhance existing research, based on your knowledge obtained from broad scan and focused reading.

Broad Scan moves to Appendix 1.

3. Related work

Select one type of the research methods (qualitative, quantitative, new product/technology)

Select one of the existing research articles which applied the selected research method

If the article was not one of the focused reading articles in the assignment 1, a focused reading needs to be conducted for it; otherwise, existing focused reading needs to be improved according to the feedback received for the first assignment.

Include the focused reading of the article here, with answers to the following questions.

• What did the authors do (key contributions).
• Why did the authors conduct the research (existing problems)?
• What are the key differences in the method/approach (innovation)?
• What are main achievements, significance?
• What can be further improved.
• Research problem identified (to be reflected in section 4 Proposed Research).

Note:

Each of the above questions needs to be covered with one paragraph; each paragraph contains minimum 4 sentences.

Strengthen the assignment 1 literature review with review of the research methods and propose the method for your research. Provide a summary overview on what related works have been done and what has not been done.

Include the research works discussed in your reference list and cite as required. Follow one of the citation/reference styles in Week 4 lecture notes.

Example improvements can be - better way to collect data, better way to provide feedback and Combining new technology (eg. chatbots) with other new technology (eg. IoT, Blockchain)/combining products to form a new product/apply new technology to improve an existing product.

4. Proposed Research (give a title)

4.1 Problem statement: clearly define the problem identified in section 3.

4.2 Aim of the research: what to be achieved; elaborate on the objectives in details.

4.3 Expected outcomes and significance: Eg. How would your method will improve the existing methods; list the key benefits

4.4 Method and innovation:

Architecture or structure diagram of your proposed method

Any other implementation design (eg. flow charts, database design)

Preliminary study/proof of implementation

• Description of typical scenarios (minimum 2)
• eg. Use any programming outputs.
• Highlight the expected improvement in the outputs produced.

Screenshots of the preliminary study/programming output.

5. Ethics

Project Title:

Researchers:

Contacts:

Project Summary:

• Objectives-
• Method-
• Expected outcomes-
• Data to be collected-
• How data will be processed-

Ethics Principles:

1. Minimise the risk of harm

• Possible harms
• Mitigation of the risk of harms

2. Obtain informed consent

Follow the sample "Information to participants form. docx" provided in VU Collaborate to provide information about the research. It should include the following information.

• Project explanation - brief
• What will be the participant asked to do?
• What will the participant gain from participating?
• How will the information I give be used?
• What are the potential risks of participating in this project?
• How will this project be conducted?
• Who is conducting the study?

Follow the sample "Consent Form. docx" provided in VU Collaborate to obtain consent. It should include the following information.

• 18 years old
• Risk being fully explained
• Given opportunity to withdraw at any phase
• Given opportunity to ask any question
• Information will be kept confidentially

3. Protect the anonymity and confidentiality

• How will data be de-identified?
• How will data be kept?
• Who will access the data?
• How will results be published?

4. Include deception of participants?

If yes, how to mitigate risks and allow participants to withdraw at any phase

5. Provide the right to withdraw

Attach consent form and information to participants as Appendix C

6. Conclusion

What has been proposed, what has been done, what improvement has been achieved, what understanding has been gained from the preliminary study, what can be further improved?

7. References

Follow one of the reference styles explained in Week 4 lecture material.

8. Appendix

Notes on Assignment -

• Analyse the ethics issues of the proposed research according to the research ethics principles.
• Develop the document: Information to participants.
• Develop the consent form.
• Develop the ethics application (simplified version as guided in the template) for your research.
• Include the ethics application as Section 5 of the research proposal.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar