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title: "needfinding"
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aliases:
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tags:
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- info203
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how to start imporving or designing inerface
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how to identify the gap or use interface issues
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needdfinding tries to identify issues, often through observational studies (qualitative)
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> "the trick [challenge] to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story to tell"
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> "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"
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> "self conciousness is the enemy of interestingness"
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> -malcolm gladwell
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## 1 Methods
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- [participant-observation](notes/participant-observation.md)
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- Apprenticeship
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- set a partnership with the people to be observed
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- be taught the steps in the process
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- observe the practives
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- validate what you are observing with those observed as you go along
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- e.g.,
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- apprenticeship is eVision user
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- task: find in which room INFO203 is
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- problem: I do not have a timetable in eVision like students
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- allows you to capture the context of use and the issues and needs
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- what do people do now
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- what values and goals do people have
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- how are these particular activities embedded in the larger context
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- similarities and differences across people
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- other types of context that are relevant -> time of day, social context
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- [interviewing](notes/interviewing.md)
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- avoid leading questions
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- choose sample representative of real users
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- often impractical
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- can be structured or semi-structured
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- effective for high level
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- Longitudinal studies
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- sporadic use -> when the product is used rarely
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- used when you cannot use observational studies
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- diaries
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- scale better than direct observation (less time consuming)
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- give people a diary to copmlete
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- structred task
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- can use journals, camera, voice, video
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- tailor the recording to the context
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- may require practice, training, reminding
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- use of ntifications, digital calendars, phone calls
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- Experience sampling
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- use txt, phone calls , calendars, notifications to recieve feeback or actively remind people
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- choose interval depending on study context
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