12 janvier 07
Meeting with Dr. Wendy Mackay, INRIA
Research Plan
Subjects:
- 16-20 participants (CHI studies normally 12-16)
- Two Groups:
1)people we talk to once (to get a broad sense/view of the field) – it’d be nice to have these people around for Phase II as well
2)Participatory Design Workshop (subjects with whom we want to keep working over time)
- Reaching Subject Populations:
1)Cite Universite
2)Ad in metro station
3)Chat with Jean Baptiste
- Required Documents
1)Informed consent (explanation of risks and benefits)
- Explanation of what kind of information we’ll be taking and using
- Interview stays anonymous
2)Permission to videotape form
- Explanation of showing video in research settings i.e. conferences
Interview Format:
1)Getting into details/initial questions to frame the entire interview (we’re interested in interaction, not functionality)
- Critical incident
- being specific about an event, anything where the subject is likely to remember the detail
- unusual, memorable, recent
- typical day
- the last time subject used something
- “What happens when you’re a on a train, in a car, on a plane, running, or walking, etc.?”
- “Did you miss something in the real world while listening to your headphone; did you miss your train stop?” [AT]
- Critical object –
- mp3 player, phone, or piece of music
- “Do you have a favorite song? Where did you hear it first? Have you played it for anyone else?
- “The last time you used this object—tell me about it in detail”
Other Notes
Different Models of Conducting Research:
- Social scientists
- Identify what is happening now – snapshot of the world today.
- Journalists
- Goal is to inform 3rd public
- Not looking for truth, but trying to paint truth.
- HCI
- Design new systems which changes the way we frame things
Interfaces:
- 1st person interface:
- A tool to augment personal capabilities
- Helps a person do what they do, but do it better
- Serves a support device and is not meant to be communicative
- 2nd person interface:
- Serves as a “butler, jeeves, assistant, or secretary” who is there and is meant for communicative purposes
- Tries to take over
- 3rd person interface:
- Medium of communication
- Interacting with an environment
- Creates a channel of communication
Technology Probes
- Should be an object that reflects on a problem
- Purpose is to reveal aspects of a problem
- Probes into how people use things today
- Details of how it’s put together will affect how it works
- Object needs to be open to interpretation
Thinking about the Problem
- Stating the obvious
- What are the things you believe?
- What do you think is normal behavior?
- What do people normally do?
- We might have preconceptions about what “normal” behavior is.