UXD 210

Spring 2020

Craig Miller

Weekly Notes

Assignments

Individual Assignment
Initial Discovery Research and Root Problem
Due Friday April 10 before 11:30pm
Project overview should be posted online by Monday April 6

Overview

For this project, you will conduct some preliminary discovery research in the (broadly construed) area of remotely maintaining human-to-human connections.

Root Concept Possibilities

You may choose to focus on a particular domain for maintaining remote connections and calloborations. A focus may address work collaborations, student learning collaborations, keeping up with friends or participating in an online community.

Preliminary User Research

Interview and/or observe two people who would be potential participants in your area of focus for remote connections or collaborations. To plan for your interviews, determine the following:

  • How you recruited participants
  • Informed consent
  • Key questions (follow up questions are ok too)

You are encouraged to ask your participants to show you the apps, software or digital tools they use to connect and collaborate.

Findings should include relevant (but not identifying) characteristics of your participants. A bulleted list of major insights should also be included in the findings. Detailed answers and observations can be noted and used to support insights. Consider including annotated screenshots of artifacts if it usefully supports your observations and findings.

Deliverables

Create a report with the following sections:

  1. Executive Summary
  2. Description of your focus and questions
  3. Brief overview of research method
  4. Findings from research
  5. Appendix including details of selection criteria, method and results

Submission

The submitted document should use a common presentation format, ideally PDF. Submit the document through D2L. A rubric for grading the assignment is present with the dropbox submission folder.

By Monday April 6, post an overview of your focus and preliminary findings on the designated D2L discussion board . This step is a requirement of the assignement.

Grading

This project is worth 10% of the course grade and will be reviewed using the following criteria:

  • Completeness. All requirements are addressed.
  • Usefulness. The report emphasizes findings most relevant to defining a solution to the problem. However, the findings should also allow for diverse approaches.
  • Support of findings. Findings are clearly based on results from the inquiry.
  • Ease of review. The document is organized and content presented to faciliate review of the above criteria.