Contextual Inquiry

Useful early in specification for obtaining qualitative data. This method is an alternative (non-involving) version of Contextual Inquiry. It is useful for studying currently executed tasks and processes. It has been extensively

The interview is one of the major sources of data collection, and it is also one of the most difficult ones to get right. In qualitative research the interview is a form of discourse. According to Mischler (1986) its particular features reflect the distinctive structure and aims of interviewing, namely, that it is discourse

In my previous milestone paper, I identified a fundamental challenge that we must overcome in the launch of our application to our target market: Users must be educated in using our application the right way. I identified this as a fundamental problem because our application will not be able to keep the promise of safeguarding users if they do not use the product correctly. The consequences deriving from untrained users are considerably important, as the life of our users can depend on it.

National Center for Education Statistics which is part of the United States’ DOE Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics in education. (NCES, n. d.)

The method I chose for this analysis is in-depth interview. This ethnographic method will be best because it allows me to understand an

Useful early in specification for obtaining qualitative data. This method is an alternative (non-involving) version of Contextual Inquiry. It is useful for studying currently executed tasks and processes. It has been

1) You are in the midst of the first interview with Mr. K., a recently divorced 55-year-old man. You have introduced yourself and have addressed the other aspects of the beginning phase of practice. You are now ready for an initial exploratory question. At this point, you know only that Mr. K.’s concern relates in some way to the divorce. Therefore, you want to encourage him to explore that topic in depth. Write the words you would say in asking this first question. Once written, specify whether the question is open- or closed-ended. Outline your rationale for choosing this particular question and anticipate how Mr. K. might respond.

Please refrain from using your name or indicating what school you attend in your response. Our selection committee uses a blind selection process. Any narratives with names and indicating information will have that information removed prior to the narrative being reviewed by the selection committee. Please address the following questions for your narrative. Please limit answers to 250 words.

The pilot study conducted in this research shows that there were a few problems within the overall design of the interview and therefore the researchers decided to make some minor changes to their design, these changes included altering the questions so they were open ended, they also made the interview less structured in able to gain more focused answers in which they could analyse.

Devices are changing people’s lifestyles. People work and communicate with devices, which people couldn’t have even imagined 100 years ago. Interaction Design makes users’ lives more convenient by analyzing the relationship between people and devices. Interaction Design will mostly used for web and mobile applications now because users always interact with them in daily life. Especially, the navigation in a mobile application can make people’s life easier. For example, in Gmail mobile application, emails can be achieved by swiping, so that people don’t need to waste their time to read those unimportant email. Also, the designers can attract more users by unique Interaction Design. For example, snapchat’s face filters help them increase users’

Throughout this inquiry process the criteria will be created in a mixture of ways. Some of the assessment pieces are created by the teacher while others will be created with the students. Furthermore, sometimes the assessment pieces will be made as a result from my observations or notes. I think the criteria should be communicated to students before the actual assessment takes place. Thus, if they do not understand this gives them the opportunity to ask any questions needed and allows myself to make any changes that are necessary. Above I have mentioned the major assessments as a rubric, oral discussion/checklist, and a self assessment. I have decided to focus mostly on students oral and drawing skills since the students in the classroom struggle with writing down full assessments. Thus, they will be able to fully express their understanding and learning without the struggle of writing everything down.

An information system is only useful to all of its stakeholders if targeted users consider it usable. The importance of usability in technology adoption and usage is underscored by the dedication of substantial amount of HCI research to provide definitions, propose techniques, methods and guidelines for improving it [1, 6]. Although there is no widely agreed upon definition for usability, in this paper, we adopt the ISO definition given as: “the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use” [21].

The study is interpretive, applied and qualitative. It is interpretive as I will understand an example of a digital library, how children intact with the system and identify HCI principles. This research is applied, since the effects identified will be used to improve system and usability. Additionally the research uses qualitative methods to collect data, examine the information and report on ideas or derives for decision

In this theory Hutchins and Norman represent the gap between the user and the interface by the gulf. This gulf needs bridges to move across which amplify the demand for studying the psychological characteristics and memory limitations. First, the gulf of execution is describes by the making commands that meets the users goals. Second, the gulf evaluation is described by the output of the system. Thus, the user and the system need to understand each other and the interaction between them must rely on common language. In the same time, when designing an interface the designer need to consider the user cognitive ability, goals and needs.

Simply gathering opinions on an object or document is market research or qualitative research rather than usability testing. Usability testing usually involves systematic observation under controlled conditions to determine how well people can use the product.[8] However, often both qualitative and usability testing are used in combination, to better understand users' motivations/perceptions, in addition to their actions.