Saturday, October 28, 2006

Yesterdays notes on collecting primary data

Collecting Primary Data Types
  • Quantitative
  • Qualitative
  • Observations
  • Interviews
  • Questionnaires
Observation - The role of the researcher!
Hawthorne affect - might play up for the camera
Which role do I adopt?
Field observation!
Data collection!
Group interviews!
When to use interviews!
  • Initial insight
  • Follow-up
  • Criticalness
Practical Considerations!
  • Time available
  • Access to responants
  • Expertise
  • Equipment
  • Setting
Questionnaires! Advantages and disadvantages
Question Design!
The DECIDE framework.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

UCD Paper prototypes

Started looking at simple editing software on PC's, camcorders and phones and sketched out different approach's for paper prototypes.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Todays Notes

Stuarts up to his old tricks again, having us sign our lives away on the new module - UCD
Discussed camcorder re-design - evaluation, whats wrong with it, editing - and proposed a plan of action, paper and Flash prototypes

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

User Centre Design-Notes

User Centre Design UCD - Re-Design. Intro to the module-read through of brief.
Intro-methology-development-conclusion-reference-bibliography
Ideas- left handed, ambidextrious camcorders.

Lecture Notes
Stages of design
  • Develop alternative designs
  • conceptual level
  • physical level
  • building
  • test & evaluate
  • final development
Look at others designs, ask users, put yourself in users shoes.

Lifecycle models
  • Traditional waterfall
  • Rapid application development RAD
  • A simple interaction design model (Preece et al 2002)
Christine Falken/Norman/Neilsson

USD in my work







  • Long Timerecording
    unavailable with any
    other storage
    medium.
  • No Costfor or need to
    buy additional
    recording media.
  • Direct Access
    to scenes you want.
  • No Risk of erasing
    something by
    mistake.
  • Easy Deletion
    of unwanted scenes.
  • Simple Editing
    is possible by
    camera itself.
    Playlist function.
Using these 6 descriptions of the advantages of using the hard disk camcorder taken from JVC's broucheres. I want to ask users what thier expectations of the product are concerning each of these statements. I might use these answers to see where the expectations fall short and re-design appropriately.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Participation

People are starting to participate with work in our field in a variety of ways.

YouTube is one of those mediums that you participate with twofold, not only can anyone watch videos on it but anyone can post videos to it as well. It is a place on the web where you can engage in new ways with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing. If nobody participated in these ways then YouTube would be as redundant as the shelves at a Betamax video store.

The National Trust
is encouraging people to record a diary of their day (the 17th of October 2006) on a website, as part of what is being called "Britain's biggest blog". They are trying to get people to participate and help create a “fascinating social history” archive of everyday life for future generations. People who want to contribute to the project have until the 31st of October 2006 to upload their accounts of the 17th of October 2006.
As you can see from the above examples these new forms of audience participation are nothing without your contributions. The artists of the work are in essence now conductors of a multi varied canvas.

In terms of the work I want to produce I could make use of the YouTube technology to have visitors upload video blogs of their experiences at the memorial sites they have been to.


http://www.art-themagazine.com/pages/tokyo2.htm
http://www.artinteractive.org/curatorial.php
http://www.chapter.org/7088.html
http://www.youtube.com/t/about
http://video.google.co.uk/video_about.html
http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/page96.asp
http://www.myspace.com/Modules/Common/Pages/AboutUs.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About
http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/361871/jakob-nielsen-s-tips-on-increasing-community-participation.html
http://technokitten.blogspot.com/2006/01/participation-tv-as-part-of-mobile.html

Participation brief

http://dfim-ccs.blogspot.com/2006/10/session-5-participation.html

Seminar 4; Sustainability

http://dfim-ccs.blogspot.com/2006/10/seminar-four-sustainability.html

Sunday, October 22, 2006

RADAR


Here's the postits from Fridays lecture