Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Interview protocol and analysis categories

I developed my interview protocol v 1.0:

1.0 General Information
-Who are you? / can you introduce yourself?
-How old are you?
-Where do you live?, With who?
-What are your daily activities?
-Do you have any hobby or leisure activity?
-What other interests do you have?

2.0 Environment / People
-Who are the persons you are constantly in contact with?, Why?
-Tell me about your friends
-What kind of activities do you do with your friends?
-In what kind of places do you meet with your friends?
-Why is these people important for you?
-Do you belong to any organization?, like a sports club or hobby group?

2.0 Mobility
-where do you have to go during the week?
-Do you spend much time out of home?
-When not at home where are you?
-what kind of transport means do you use?
-Do you commute alone?
-when you leave home what do you carry always with you?
-what do you do while commuting?

3.0 Communication
-How do you keep in contact with people?, and when you are out of home?
-family?, friends? is there any difference?
-Do you organize your friends information?, How?

4.0 Content / Media
-What kind of activities you have in your spare time?
-Do you preserve records of these activities?, How?
-Do you share any of these activities?
-How do you share these?

5.0 Information
-What kind of information do you consult or need when you are commuting or in public spaces?
-How do you access that information?


Is still incomplete, but It proved to be helpful in my first interview yesterday evening, Im working today on it to finish it and improve it from the test interviews and yesterday first user interview.

I am also working on the categories for the analysis phase, so far I have these topics in mind:

-Context / Location
-Mobility
-Communication
-Activities
-Identity
-Management / Organization
-Content / Media

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