Homework 3: The Interview (Due 3/15 11:59pm)
You will work on this homework alone.
You have been tasked with creating a mobile phone application that tells surfers the current locations of really good waves. Before you start prototyping, you decide to interview some users. Discuss:
- How many users you plan to interview and why
- What type of interview you will conduct and why
- The kind of sampling you are going to use to pick participants and why
- The forms of triangulation that you will use
- Whether you will run a pilot study and why (You can make up the reasons)
- How you are going to record data and why
- The types of raw data these recordings will produce
- The relevant qualitative and quantitative data that they will produce
- Any initial processing that will be done on the raw data
- How you will present your data and why
Create an informed consent form; it must include all of the appropriate information. Also write down what you plan to say during each of the 5 stages of the interview. You must ask a reasonable number of questions. Indicate which questions are open and which are closed.
Extra Credit
Always with the questions (1-2% EC):
Create a questionnaire to learn more about surfers and finding good waves.
It must have at least 10 questions (20 for 2% EC) and you must utilize every type of questionnaire question that we talked about in class.