1 on 1 session with Emma before report part one is due on Friday. We talked mainly about primary research methods because I wasn't too worried about the report. I should:
  • document all primary research iteration, tests, and include in my final report
  • for finding participants I could look online at Facebook groups, bloggers, maybe approach admins on sites and ask if I/they can post to their site stating that I'm looking for participants
  • research a few (3?) activities in my primary research. With 5 participants in each activity, that would be 15 participants. Hopefully I'll manage to get more than that though
  • the pages in the cultural probe that need to be unfolded should have arrows or something telling the participant to unfold them
  • maybe include a completed activity diary in the cultural probe as an example (but obviously use a related activity, not the one I'm actually researching)
  • if I wanted to get participants to think aloud while sorting their photos of their products along a semantic differential scale, I could just do it for a selection of participants (i.e. local)
  • the breakup letter could start 'It's over?' or be a 'we've had a fight' letter instead of being a direct breakup letter, because breakup is quite extreme and users might have bad experiences with products but not necessarily want to 'break up' with the product
  • the 'map of my life' could start 'Sketch it' or 'Make it' because 'Draw it' might make people nervous about their drawing skills