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3.5 Research strategies

Throughout the graduation I have made use of different kinds of methods and research strategies part of the DOT
framework. I will list the different strategies of the DOT framework below and I will explain how I have applied to my video
platform project.

Field:
With this different kinds of interviews will be conducted, and by this I determine the requirements for the final product.

Library:
I will need to go on the Internet (mostly), and I will read different kinds of articles about video platforms. YouTube and the
functionality of it need to be researched. At this strategy, I will need to look up the documentation of both Laravel and
FFMPEG, and I will need to go through these in order to get the best knowledge about these specific tools. The Bootstrap
documentations need to be read with this strategy, in order to know what the best ways are for automatically resizing the
screen for tablets and smartphones. Articles need to be read and research has to be made into different kinds of video
formats, and I need to find out what the best format is and what kind of encoding to use so that a video can be played by
all browsers and by tablets and smartphones. Research has to be made with this field to find what the best video player is
to use for playing videos on the video platform.
Workshop:
This strategy is used in the main phases of development of the project with the aim of implementing parts and improving
parts that I have until now. Since the working style is in an incrementing way, this strategy will play a big role for when I
increment and add new parts to the prototype that has been made.
Lab:
The lab strategy is used during the testing phases. After applying the workshop strategy I will need to test the parts out,
and make sure they actually work in the correct way, and this will be done in the lab strategy.

Showroom:
The showroom strategy will be used after I have done the workshop and the lab strategies. After fully testing the parts
during the lab strategy I will use the showroom strategy to show my company directors (mostly company mentor) the
resulting parts. The short-term goals will be showed by this strategy so I can show some progress and short-term results to
the company directors and company mentor.

Figure 2: the 5 research strategies of the DOT framework