Saturday 15 March 2008

Last updates

The DE module is totally sucking all my available time (and the brains too).
Last updates on the research site:

- Marina Jirotka replied to my email saying we could either talk on the phone or I could go to Oxford. Great!
- Had a meeting with Andrew Harder, from Flow Interaction, who did an ethnographic study of the London Underground for his theses a couple of years ago. He told me he used to sit in the back of the room, 2 or 3 hours per day and observe, literally. He let the data talk to him. He says it is agonizing, but things start shaping up little by little. He didn't use any kind of tool (like the Ethnographer or Atlas) to analyze the data, he used post-its that he stuck on his bedroom wall. A good point he made is the post its give a better visualization of the data and he found it easier to find patterns. That's valid point. He also said he didn't worry much about the implications to design, because as it was -- a MSc thesis -- it was already valid just as sn observation study.

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