This week
Haibo Li's lecture was cancelled and unfortunately I missed Eva-Lotta Sallnäs
Pysander’s due to work. So this post reflection will not be that extensive. What
I did was to discuss her lecture with some of my peers that attended. This gave
me better insight and understanding of how collaborative setting can be
beneficial. I also did discuss the texts with two other students, we usually do
this and it really gives me a better understanding and different perspectives.
I really
liked the paper written by Haibo. It was interesting and it was inspiring that
it was something I could do as a media technology engineer. It is of great
importance to use prototypes when developing both physical and virtual products
and services to find flaws but also advantages.
The use of
a collaborative setting is also really interesting. If this is used, you don’t
need to force the users to think aloud; this will hopefully happen
automatically when the users discuss and interact with each other. This will be
more natural and may result in a better research.
Hi! I like that you discussed the readings with some friends before you wrote your reflection. Did you do this every week?
SvaraRaderaI agree with you that a collaborative setting is good and more natural than the think aloud method. If some researchers asked me if I could participate in a research where I would have to think aloud, all by myself, I would most definitely say no (if I wouldn't receive a nice reward or so, haha) since it would be too awkward. If I could partake in the research in a collaborative setting though, that would be a whole other thing.
As a researcher I think it is important to put yourself in the participants "shoes" and carefully think through what method and setting to use. I think that questions regarding how the participants will experience the situation and if they would be able to feel comfortable in it (which I think is necessary to "perform well"), are important to ask yourself before conducting the tests.
Hi! I agree with you about collaborative settings, is really interesting to think in this kind of settings, I believe that the results in any research using this will have better and more truthful data. Many times when we do any kind of research we assume many thing that the participants on the study don’t, we have to think how participants would be more comfortable in order to have more “natural” information. I also think that using prototypes is really useful and we can find many advantages like identify some failures or identifying features that can be improve; it is the best way to test our “product”. Good reflection!
SvaraRaderaIsaac Rondon
Hi,
SvaraRaderaI agree that a collaborative setting result in many advantages. However, I think that you would have to consider the negative effect that participants might have on eachother; like not being completely honest about opinions, peer pressure. Furthermore a collaborative setting might be hard to analyze and not fit all test cases.