Define the goals of your data gathering session

Zuerst wollen wir erfahren, was die größten Probleme sind, die aktuell bei Online Brettspielabenden bestehen, um danach anhand dieser Funktionen Prioritäten vergeben zu können. Weiterhin wollen wir erfahren wie und in welchem Umfang die Nutzer vor Corona und jetzt Brettspielabende gestalten um unsere Nutzer besser kennenzulernen und besser einzuschätzen wie sie die Anwendung nutzen würden. Auch wollen wir erfahren wie die Nutzer sich den „perfekten“ Brettspielabend vorstellen.

Based on your goal, derive the kind of people you want to gather data from

Unsere Teilnehmer für die Umfrage sind Personen die gerne Brettspiele spielen und eher jünger (wahrscheinlich eher Studenten). Für das Interview befragen wir 2 Freunde.

Decide on your data gathering method

Which methods are you using and why?

Zusätzlich zu den Interviews werden wir auch noch eine Umfrage durchführen, da die Daten die sich hier sammeln lassen deutlich besser vergleichbar sind und sich schneller/einfacher auswerten lassen sind dafür allerdings nicht so detailliert. Die Interviews dagegen sollen uns sehr detaillierte Antworten bringen, was für Probleme und Wünsche es gibt.

What type of interview (structured, unstructured, semi-structured)?

Wir planen ein semi-strukturiertes Interview durchzuführen. Wir werden ein Größtenteils wird es ein strukturiertes Interview sein, allerdings wenn es um Problembeschreibung oder Wünsche geht werden wir die Fragen offen stellen.

What kind of data do you want to gather?

Das Interview ist vor allem daraus ausgelegt qualitative Daten zusammen, die Umfrage dagegen soll hauptsächlich quantitative Daten sammeln.

Decide how you handle the topics pilot study & data recording.

Pilot Study

Wir haben die Pilot Study aufgrund der kurzen Zeit ausschließlich für die Umfrage durchgeführt um dafür zu sorgen, dass die Fragen verständlich für den Teilnehmer der Umfrage sind. Hierfür haben wir uns ein paar Personen aus unserem Bekanntenkreis Gesicht, die sich dass angeschaut haben.

Data Recording

Interviews: schriftliche Notizen – Die sind einfacher Auszuwerten und meistens akzeptierter bei Interviewpartner als Aufnahmen

Umfragen: Tabellen und Diagramme, die automatisch vom Umfrage Tool erzeugt werden.

• Project 7
• Week 2

• Define the goals of your data gathering session.
  The goal of our study is to gather information on how people of age group 50+ form their opinions on political topics, i.e., how many and which sources are used. Additionally, we attempt to find out whether they consider their own opinion biased or balanced. We want to also know how they life in social media looks like and their daily usage of news.

• Based on your goal, derive the kind of people you want to gather data from.
  We needed people of age 50+ for our interviews. Survey, however, was sent to wider range of people to get bigger picture on the problem. Through this survey we were also looking for participants over 50 years old.

• Decide on your data gathering method.
  We use two methods. First, we conduct a questionnaire targeted at the general public, which we will post on forums and mailing lists. In parallel, partially based on preliminary results from the questionnaire we conduct in-depth interviews with multiple participants of our target group of age 50+.
  
  Our interviews are semi-structured. We decided, since we are going to talk about politics, we need to give our interviewed a space for longer responses and to share their opinion on the problem.

• Decide how you handle the topics pilot study & data recording.
  For data recording we used: Audio recording and notes for personal interviews and video recording for a remote interview. Achieved transcription from the interviews will be used as a main source for us.
  
  We use Google Forms as questionnaire software. They will provide us with categorized and counted solutions in the form of Excel sheet. We will be working from there on the next assignments.

Reflection:

We took our time to rethink thouroughly the questions for participants of our survey and interview. There was a lot of brain storming to decide what data do we want to gather from the public. Working together on the file was very helpful and time saving.

What surprised us, was the response for our survey. We got more replies than we expected and we hope that this is going to make our work more clear in next assignments. Our topic is definitely a wide area and a controversive one. We hope for more questions to answer and more solutions to provide.

In terms of how the interviews went, we are happy how did it go and with data we were able to gather. Some information and ideas came up during them, that we didn’t predict before. The biggest struggle was avoiding leading questions, as the main topic is politics and media, where each person can have it’s own, original opinion.

Also thanks to the survey we conducted, we could get a feedback from our responses about the questions and the problem. Opened questions in the survery, allowed our responders to state their opinion and some of them we followed up by the discussion on our meeting.

For our in-depth interview, we created the following questions while the goal was to become aware of the meal ideation process

1- How do you plan your meals?
2- When do you plan your meals?
3- What do you think about fast food?

4- Do you cook regularly?
Yes => Where are your recipes coming from?
No => Name the reasons
5- What do you think about a meal planner?
We are developing an app which is recommending you recipes for food that you do not know how to use. It is new because your only input are the ingredients that you want to use for it; and allergies.
6- On a scale from 0 to 10, how willing are you to download an app which helps you with the cooking?
7- If you had such a mobile application, would you use it for your daily eating habits or occasionally?
8- Which ingredients generally remains when you must go for groceries again?
9- What colour intuitively represents food in your opinion?
10- What form of recipe is appealing to you the most?
A- Text
B- Pictures
C- Video
11- If you think about your social circle, to how many acquaintances would you recommend such an app?
12- How would you like such an application to be called?

In our project, it’s best to analyze existing software

1.Document your method and the type of data you are gathering.

During our research, we become inspired by a good working project that we discovered. Our analysis is done with the following steps: 1. Try out the use case written in the previous blog post in the app 2. Protocol during the process all thoughts and become aware of other (potentially for us interesting) use cases 3. Describe the other use cases.

2.Store your collected data.

Supercook was created by Assaf Rozenblatt an it`s an responsive website, Android and iOS App.

„Supercook wants to make life easier for everyone who cooks at home! Our mission is to enable smarter, quicker decisions about what recipes to make and what ingredients to use using advanced technology and all the recipe content on the web. Based in New York, Supercook has a distinct focus on solving the practical problems of modern home cooks: how to waste less food, how to use up perishable or seasonal ingredients and how to keep track of everything in the kitchen“ supercook.com can be easily found with a search engine, just by typing in the word supercook. You will find it on the the top. Similar in the Appstores.

You can see a tutorial screen with the information „Speak to add ingredients Adding ingredients is easy Open your fridge, tap the mic icon, say what you have“ and also „Every ingredient you add unlocks more recipes“, „vegan lasagna without tomato“ and „Search over 1 million recipes“. You can click on „Skip“ or „Get Started“ while both buttons bring you to the same start screen.

On this screen, you can see pretty clearly that it`s time to add ingredients here. You have 3 possibilities to do that. At the top of the screen, you can write in a search bar, after writing the first character you will see the available ingredients. The second option is in the middle of the site and it is a list of ingredients (sorted in meat, vegetables etc.) while each is clickable because they are buttons. The third one is to use natural language processing. At the centre of the screen is always a microphone, which is also a button. Additional to the important button „See Recipes“ which we will click now, we can see other buttons too which will be explained at the end of this analysis.

The relevant/ingredient-dependent recipes are „hidden“ behind one more button. Following it you will see the wished list of recipes for the ingredients chosen, while the same as before each is at the same time a button. Next to the recipes which can be done with the selected ingredients, we can see underneath some others which require 1 more ingredient. Next to this list, you can see filter like „video only“ or „meal type“ and you can also select more ingredients. With a click on a recipe, it`s clear that the categorization is done with tags because we can see here the tags. You can also see here a rating, the cooking time needed, the necessary amount or weight of the ingredients and nutrition facts. With another click, we will be forwarded to one of a few websites because Supercook does not host the full recipes. You can see here links to similar recipes under „You might also like“ too. If you step back to where we found the „hidden“ button we can also see the more ingredients selection and the filter. Additional: Some recipes are shown in a big horizontal slider with the headline „Featured Recipes“ or in many (>20) smaller slider with categories like „low carbs“, „gluten free“ or „cookies“; always with a picture.

Besides the „See Recipes“ button you can see a menu with the name „My Pantry“ where you can deselect your ingredients, a shoppting list which allows to save ingredients in a seperate list and an acctount mode. „If you sign up for an account, your ingredients, and dietary restrictions, will be saved on Supercooks servers. This means you can sign into your account from any device and everything will be synced up. Having an account also allows you to “favorite” recipes you like so you can easily find them later.“

Who did what?

Christian was writing and Mouadh was leading during the gathering

What did we learn?

To come closer to our goal this week was very helpful because we discovered a working product and it`s flow producing. The interview made us aware of the community of people who want to count calories and we will focus on that niche

What went well?

If we can continue like this week it`s very likely that our product will be great.

What do we want to improve?

All writing was good this week but we had problems with the data formating.

Define the goals of your data gathering session

Wir wollen unsere Funktionen durch die Meinungen der NutzerInnen in der Priorität einordnen können. Es geht uns also vorallem darum, einschätzen zu können, welche Features am Wichtigsten oder am Hilfreichsten sind. Was sind die Must- und was sind die Nice to Haves.
Außerdem wollen wir unsere NutzerInnen – mit den Funktionen im Hinterkopf – kennenlernen. Dabei kommen natürlich Fragen auf, was für Haustiere sie besitzen, ob diese Einschränkungen haben (für zusätzliche Funktionen zur Rücksichtnahme, vielleicht einer Abstufung an Schwierigkeitsgraden der Gassirouten) und auch allgemeine Fragen, die die Handhabung der App betreffen. Wie und wann würden die NutzerInnen sie benutzen?

Based on your goal, derive the kind of people you want to gather data from

Unsere Teilnehmer sind vorallem Hundebesitzer für das Interview und Haustierbesitzer für die Umfrage.
Dabei interviewen wir mit den längeren Interviews Hannas Schwester, Lara und Ailis‘ Kollegin.

Decide on your data gathering method

Which methods are you using and why?

• Wir werden größere Interviews mit Einzelpersonen durchführen. Desweiteren erstellen wir eine Umfrage mit einem Onlineformular. Ein Interview ist gut, um detaillierte Antworten zu bekommen, den Problemspace und die Fokusgruppe kennenzulernen & zu analysieren. Wir werden damit herausfinden, worauf die UserGruppe wert legt, lernen die Umgebung der user Gruppe kennen, und finden heraus, wie sie sich die App-Nutzung vorstellen und was sie sich von der App wünschen würden?
• Mit einer Umfrage erreichen wir eine grobe Einschätzung der Prioritäten von Features und Bedürfnissen der Nutzer. Wichtige Gründe für eine solche Umfrage ist die schnellere/einfachere Datensammlung und Auswertung und ein gute Vergleichbarkeit.

What type of interview?

Wir planen ein semi-strukturiertes Interview zu machen, welches mehr strukturiert ist als unstrukturiert. Wir arbeiten mit vielen geschlossenen Fragen , haben aber für jeden Themen bzw. Feature Bereich mindestens eine offene Frage.

What kind of data do you want to gather?

Mit dem Interview wollen wir vor allem qualitative Daten sammeln. Mit der Umfrage wollen wir hauptsächlich quantitative Daten sammeln, aber auch qualitative.

Decide how you handle the topics pilot study & data recording.

Eine Pilotstudie werden wir aus zeitlichen Gründen nur für die Umfrage durchführen. Hierfür nehmen wir Personen aus dem Bekanntenkreis, nicht aus der Fokus-userGruppe. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Formulierung der Fragen und der Verständlichkeit für den Teilnehmer.

Data Recording

• Interview: Notizen (schriftlich) – Das ist schöner für den Befragten und einfacher in der Auswertung.
• Umfrage: Tabellen, Schriftliches, … was das Tool hergibt, das wir benutzen. Je nach Fragetyp wird das unterschiedlich ausführlich sein.