Microsoft Research Project

Sunday, Jan. 29, 2006
Group Meeting | Grad Studio

• Agenda includes setting audience and creating a research plan. We use IDEO Method Cards to help us become aquainted with different research methods. Research methods will include:

1. current resources – product analysis
2. survey
3. drawing our experience
4. camera journal – directed writing of experience plus pictures
5. touchtone tour – Bruce’s research methods assignment
6. personas – create archetypes of what a typical participant/user is like
7. directed storytelling
8. bodystorming – focus on experiencing new situation, ex. Find a new restaurant, pay attention to what we do to accomplish goal

• The discussion also reveals that our potential audience is hard to determine without some initial research. We agree to revisit this topic once we have some data from the directed story telling.

• Group also determines an additional set weekly meeting time: Tuesday 3 p.m. - ?

• Work begins on content/design of camera journal.

• Complete notes from this meeting are here.

Monday, Jan. 30, 2006
Class Meeting — “Seeing With New Eyes”

• Brief after-class meeting to talk about scheduled research and papers to read

• Reports on initial

Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006
Group Meeting

• Review and refine camera journals.

• Confirm camera journal participants; 1 visitor, 1 semi-permanent visitor; and 1 permanent “mover” will maintain the journals.

• Review and set deadlines for Feb. 22 deliverables.

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2006
Class Meeting

• An incredibly helpful and pertinent (to us) presentation from Aradhana Goel of MAYA. Group decides to co-op some of MAYA’s techniques in understanding “being new to an area”.

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2006

• Sofia and Jonathan finish producing journal and gathering cameras and deliver them to study participants.