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Introduction to Usability Engineering Learning about your users

Announcements See syllabus for upcoming due dates. Need a helper for Monday to “demo” something. Volunteers? widgets are for talking about most of these points.

Learning about your users (See Rogers ch 7 readings) This is empirical work. “Empirical” = based on data. So you have to collect data. There are 2 kinds of empirical work: Formative: to inFORM your design. (This is what we’re talking about here.) Summative: to evaluate your design later. (We’ll talk about this later.) But it’s really a continuum...

The big picture How does formative empirical work with users fit into P R I C P E ?

Types of formative empirical work In this course we’ll do only these two: Interviews one-on-one (in the field) Observations of users (in the field) Many other types of formative empirical work ... Examples?

Interviews

Four key issues (!!!) 1. You need goals (Research questions)! Where do these come from in PRICPE? 2. Consider relationship w participants. Comfort, trust, IRB... 3. Triangulate!! Independent ways of getting to same conclusion. Examples? (data, investigator, …) 4. Pilot, pilot, pilot! ...your PROCEDURE and everything in it.

Interview Sequence 1. Introduce yourself. 2. Warm-up: who are you exactly, and why are you here? reassurances about confidentiality, IRB procs, IMPORTANT: ask their permission, set up data collection (quickly/efficiently). 2. Warm-up: Ask non-threatening, easy questions, eg: background things.

Interview sequence (cont.) 3. Main interview: In logical sequence, save hardest for the end. 4. Cool down Easy questions, to defuse tension if arose. 5. Closing Thank them!! Put stuff away, signaling that the interview is over, any further conversation is not part of it.

General guidelines for interview questions THEY are the point, not you. Use vocab THEY know (avoid jargon). LISTEN. Write down what they say + body language, pauses, signs of emotion, etc. After an answer, stay silent a bit to see if THEY want to add something. Avoid long/complex questions. Avoid leading questions/be alert to unconscious biases. Be precise in recording. Don’t “fix”.

Interview types for this course Open-ended/unstructured, structured, semi-structured.

Unstructured interviews No list of questions. But you still need an agenda, checklist, to ensure everything covered. Both you and interviewee can steer a conversation. Advantage: lots of rich data, unanticipated, affords emergence of surprises. Disadvantage: hard to analyze, can’t replicate.

Structured interviews Opposite of unstructured. Fixed list of questions. Only you can steer the conversation. Disadvantage: no rich data, all anticipated. Advantage: easy to analyze, easy to replicate.

Semi-Structured interviews Combines aspects of each. Fixed list of questions, each of which is followed by conversation and follow-ups as appropriate. Advantages: some rich data, some unanticipated, surprises possible, yet some of the data is easy to analyze to replicate.

Semi-structured interview example What websites do you visit frequently? A: ........ Why? A: ...mentions several but says she likes <w> best. And why do you like <w>? A: ...... <x> ....... Tell me more about <x>? A: ...... Anything else about <x>? Thanks. Any other reasons you like <w>? Black is fixed question. Red is follow-ups based on answers.

Example 1-2 minutes Steve Krug’s demo interview. “Getting the user talking” (segment #2, min 3:13-5:00). To discuss: What kind of interview is this segment? What part of the interview sequence was this? Did you notice anything he did that violated the guidelines? Answers: Semi-structured Warm-up He interrupted and talked over her – the point is to get HER talking, not him. He “led” her to answer that the kindergarten volunteering was fun. He never stayed silent to let her add to her responses.

In-Class Interviewing Activity Split up into pairs. Do a semi-structured interview to research the online grocery project (remember your Predispositions and what you did NOT know?). How: 3-5 minutes individually design the goals, questions, according to the guidelines/issues here. 3-5 minutes for A to interview B. (think of it as a pilot) 3-5 minutes for B to interview A. (think of it as a pilot) Goal: hands-on practice with the interviewing process. We’ll discuss your results in class (5-10 minutes) Quick reference to guidelines. This is 20-25 minutes, but can be scissored down to about 15. (3/3/3)+discussion.