Remember the research process is not linear. You will inevitable move back and forth between focusing your topic, research, and writing before completing your assignment.
Watch the Focus Your Research Topic to discover how to do background research and use it to brainstorm a topic, and utilize the 5Ws framework to consider the various aspects of your topic that you can then focus your research on.
Topic: Bias in AI and implications on women's health.
| What |
bias, health data, diagnostics, disease, gender equity, socio-economic, sample representation, medical advice, cardio-vascular disease, medical app, gender informed |
| Who |
women, app developers |
| Where |
hospital, doctor’s office |
| When | Last 5 years, medical studies, tech development, tech information, app development |
| Why/How |
Why when medical apps are developed do they not include gender-informed data? How can medical studies be more representative of women in their sampling? How can we improve medical advice given through medical apps? |
As you can see, there are so many different aspects of the AI and gender topic, we can start grouping and seeing themes or further focuses and curiosities. For example, you may focus on:
