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title: Needfinding
sr-due: 2022-04-09
sr-interval: 18
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#review
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#### Review questions
1. what is participant observation
2. what are interview, what are their purpose
3. what are longitudinal studies. when are they used
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# Needfinding
how to start imporving or designing inerface
how to identify the gap or use interface issues
needdfinding tries to identify issues, often through observational studies (qualitative)
> "the trick [challenge] to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell"
> "The other trick if finding out the difference between power and knowledge. You dont start at the top if you want to find a story, you start in the middle. Because its the people in the middle that do the work"
> "self conciousness is the enemy of interestingness"
> -malcolm gladwell
## Methods
- Participant [Observation](out/notes/observation.md)
- Apprenticeship
- set a partnership with the people to be observed
- be taught the steps in the process
- observe the practives
- validate what you are observing with those observed as you go along
- e.g.,
- apprenticeship is eVision user
- task: find in which room INFO203 is
- problem: I do not have a timetable in eVision like students
- allows you to capture the context of use and the issues and needs
- what do people do now
- what values and goals do people have
- how are these particular activities embedded in the larger context
- similarities and differences across people
- other types of context that are relevant -> time of day, social context
- [Interviews](out/notes/interviews.md)
- avoid leading questions
- choose sample representative of real users
- often impractical
- can be structured or semi-structured
- effective for high level
- Longitudinal studies
- sporadic use -> when the product is used rarely
- used when you cannot use observational studies
- diaries
- scale better than direct observation (less time consuming)
- give people a diary to copmlete
- structred task
- can use journals, camera, voice, video
- tailor the recording to the context
- may require practice, training, reminding
- use of ntifications, digital calendars, phone calls
- Experience sampling
- use txt, phone calls , calendars, notifications to recieve feeback or actively remind people
- choose interval depending on study context