Our aims within this Initial Interview stage is to look for product viability from potential users. We have deicded to direct the Moonlight product at 18-30 year sociable females and apartment resides [1]. This will be conducted through a set series of interview questions to be asked towards the target demographic.
At this early stage, the goals can be seen as being fairly simple. The primary concern is viability and looking for insight into whether the concept is necessary. Adding to this is the idea of users being active with such an application and if made available, would it be used.Understand what people consider to be trustworthy and how to create trust. This will be difficult to distill and refine as the concept of trust can vastly differ for each individual. By looking in the metrics of what trust is and how other service applications on the markets have already create a credible system of trust, we hope to make people comfortable and confident when using Moonlight.
1 interviewer, 1 assistant and 1 observer were to survey an area (in this case UQ St. Lucia Campus) in aims of recruiting participants for this interview. With an unsolicated approach we aim to catch people off guard to help assist in observation of participants demeanor during a random event.Once agreeing to the quick interview the interviewer and assistant addressed the scripted questions to the participant while the observer maintained a generous distance to look for body language and gestures that the participant was exhibiting. Audio recordings were also taken at the participants agreement for further use. Notes on visual cues and reactions were taken.
Concluding the interview the participant was thanked for their time and the team move on.
The initial interview are conducted by approaching female students at random between 8:00-10:00am Tuesday Morning on the 22nd of August, 2017. This was aimed at a portion of our intended target user base. Alone drinking coffee. Female. ~20. caucasian . union complex. 845. started to think more about responses as the interview went on. Link to upload of audio Two females early 20s caucasian merlo 855.Having a conversation with each other. Hesitant on being approached. Some smirks and visual ticks before responding.
Female gp south 915. <20’s caucasian. Studying. Initially uneasy Early 20’s indian adv eng, communication and body language was highly important. Fidgety, appearing nervous. Very on guard. When an individual or group was approached there appearred to be a moment of pause of the person. Some difficulties were that the initial act of breaking the ice and allowing someone to be interviewed. A number of factors that made this initial step difficult were:- Heading to class
- Running late
- English language skills
- Involved in group conversation
- Studying
Adding to these problems that gave us some insight of helping the interviewers break the ice, 3 males appproaching a single female student asking if they would like to particpate in a survey may of appearred a bit strong, thus putting the potential interview on guard and not wanting to communicate further.
Some aspects that were not considered prior to interviewing was that; what if the person only trust or had faith in themselves? That for some situations they would not but prefer company. Given this insight considerations that would still make features of the application viable for individuals such as this should be considered. Asking ourselves what the is the users intent, and how may they succeed in their goal whether they are a passive or active user.
- "deco3500-2017/-", GitHub, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/deco3500-2017/-/blob/master/README.md#audience. [Accessed: 07- Sep- 2017].