Brigid Costello, looking at her PhD thesis

From Brigid Costello's 2009 PhD thesis.
PLAY AND THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTIVE ART.

"The research in this project focused on play as a way of thinking about, designing for and understanding the relationship between these interactive art systems and the audience experience they evoke."

a great introduction that may really help me to understand how to write research up.she locates the inquiry within a domain of research or activity and states what the design out comes were

"This research was centered within the discipline of interactive art and resulted in the creation of four interactive artworks: Elysian Fields, Sprung! and two iterations of a work titled Just a Bit of Spin".

She says what the central thrust or focus of the research is and then wraps this into a methodological approach. This sentence also locates what she wants to find out.

The research in this project focused on play as a way of thinking about, designing for and understanding the relationship between these interactive art systems and the audience experience they evoke.