{"id":1307,"date":"2019-02-19T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T13:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T13:40:20","slug":"log-week-3-nutc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2019\/02\/19\/log-week-3-nutc\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 Log – NUTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Log week 3<\/span><\/h1>\n

Hello, this week we decided upon our user research methods. We believe the best method for us would be to participate in detailed (structured) interviews with stakeholders and the general public, and also to take general observations of the areas usage. Within the seminar we came up with some brief questions, following this we met as a group to expand upon them more. <\/span><\/p>\n

Planned site visit<\/b><\/p>\n

This week we contacted Ali to try to organise a meeting with her, Mark (computer, tech side of the project) and Julie (environmental\/health side of the project) although Julie wasn’t able to make the dates suggested, so we have agreed to try to meet up next week with them where we will be able to ask them more detailed questions about the project. As we cannot interview them this week we have decided to make a site visit instead to Heaton Road, to try to interview some of the locals and the stakeholders. We realise that we need different types of interviews for each set of people, some needing to more open and others more specific and closed to only certain groups of people who would know the answers or have experience with the questions asked. We would like to talk to a few of the people below, although we have been warned due to local elections to not focus on them too much. These would be users such as:<\/span><\/p>\n