Sara Petry & Jessica Richman Fieldwork Activity Sara Petry & Jessica Richman 17 April 2008
Observation Types of fieldwork ... observation, interview, document analysis Observation ... most common in HCI The “Master-Apprentice” model is common in observational research Learning to do observations well takes time
The Activity Break into groups of 3 or 4 1 person will be the user, others will be researchers Go to http://www.google.com/experimental 5 minutes to play with any or all of the experimental searches Researchers - note areas of improvement for each search 5 minute debrief with the whole group
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Situated Actions, Lucy Suchman, 1987 All this complexity = Action is context-sensitive Planning is not always followed and sometimes a rationalization Language is easily misinterpreted
An Ethnographic Approach to Design, Jeanette Blomberg, et al, 2003 Historical: anthropology and relativism Philosophical/epistemological: Natural settings Holistic Descriptive Members’ point of view
Practical Ethnography Your experiences: Sampling Gaining access Observation, self-reporting techniques, remote data collection, digital observation Artifact analysis
Experience Models and Opportunity Maps
Profiles and Storyboards
Questions?