---
title: "interviewing"
tags: 
- info203
---

## 1 Use Cases
- [evaluating-designs](notes/evaluating-designs.md)
- [requirements-elicitation](notes/requirements-elicitation.md)
- [needfinding](notes/needfinding.md)

## 2 Overview
- direct and stuctured
- semi structured
- usually top down
- effective for high level interface evaluation
- need careful planning, experts, difficult to analyse
- not a controlled experiment technique

## 3 Conducting an interview
### 3.1 Choosing participants
- some is better than none
- get pople who are representive of users
	- users of existing similar system
	- non-users -> why people arent using a system
	- e.g., lecture support system
		- teachers
		- students
		- staff
		- admins
		- parents
		- freshman
		- phd
		- international domestic
		- stronger and weaker
		
#### 3.1.1 Recruiting
- Craiglist (in US)
- your network
- cheaper for less speciales users
- if you can convince people you are imporving the world they might volunteer
- if they think is is for profict they will expect to be paid
- if you cant pay -> you cant use a token of appreciation

### 3.2 Process
- introduce yourself explaint he purpose
- the interview is about them, not you?
- begin with open, unbiased questions-> then follow up
- ask the questions, and let them answer
- have breaks and give them time
- have a clear separation between the general introduction, the actual interview, and post inteview discussions

### 3.3 Questions to avoid:
- leading questions
- what would they do / like / want in a hypothetical scenario
- how often they do things
- how much they like things on an absolute scale
- avoid binary questions

## 4 Pros/cons
+ free and open answers
+ sense of active contribution
+ oppportunity for follow up
- time consuming and resource intensive
- dependent of commication skills of analyst
- location/schedule can make this impractical