What I have accomplished thus far
March 22, 2011 Leave a Comment
Well, what do I have to show for 5 weeks of work…2 survey’s, 13 study families willing to let me invade their homes and 5 families completing a week long journal.
One of the survey’s was used to establish desirability of a family organizational system was published late last fall. The second survey looks into how connected families feel in different situations . Both surveys where used to generate further research participants with an opt in at the end of the survey.
The 18 families involved in additional research are divided into 8 contextual interviews, 3 lunch interviews, 5 family diaries, 1 extended ethnographic interview and 1 phone interview. However, these are not the first families I have discussed this project with and gotten feedback and guidance. I have been working on this project off and on since spring break of 2010 talking to anyone that would listen and offer feedback. That slow evolution may not be considered ideal but it did allow for the project to evolve nicely into a project that is interesting and exciting.
So, here I sit waiting for all the wonderful families to let me know when is a good time to invade their space. In the mean time I am using the knowledge I have gained over the last year to create a “Pre-Research” family persona. It is based on the undocumented research and is resulting in what I believe to be an archetypal family. I plan to compare/contrast this family to data based persona’s.
