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In the beginning of your Project the main research activity will be doing user research and getting to know the goals and problems of your users. Later on you will probably solve more specific problems and use more books and online ressources to solve these problems. | In the beginning of your Project the main research activity will be doing user research and getting to know the goals and problems of your users. Later on you will probably solve more specific problems and use more books and online ressources to solve these problems. | ||
It is important to get to know what your users what to archive – what their goals are. Goals are not activities like using a feature in your product. | It is important to get to know what your users what to archive – what their goals are. Goals are not activities like using a feature in your product. | ||
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You can search for papers by using [http://www.google.com/scholar google scholar] or the [http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm ACM Library]. The search is free in both cases but just google scholar links sometimes directly to the papers while you need a membership for ACM. If your university has one, you are a lucky student! But even if you find a paper on ACM or google scholar links on a pricy database too you should give it a try and search specifically for that papers title. Often the researchers have published accessible versions on their webpages. | You can search for papers by using [http://www.google.com/scholar google scholar] or the [http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm ACM Library]. The search is free in both cases but just google scholar links sometimes directly to the papers while you need a membership for ACM. If your university has one, you are a lucky student! But even if you find a paper on ACM or google scholar links on a pricy database too you should give it a try and search specifically for that papers title. Often the researchers have published accessible versions on their webpages. | ||
==Qualitative Research== | |||
Reading the headline "research" you will have probably thought of numbers, statistics and large tests. The findings of research like this can be useful for us, but we will not conduct this kind of research: It is too elaborate and would just help to learn about existing things and not about ways to create new and innovative solutions. We research to understand users and get to know what their motivations are and what influences their behaviour. This kind of reasearch is called "qualitative research". | |||
There are many different techiques for doing qualitative research. In this guide I will concentrate on interviews for getting the findings you need. | |||
==Planning Interviews== | ==Planning Interviews== | ||
==Conducting Interviews== | ==Conducting Interviews== | ||
==Review the Interviews== | ==Review the Interviews== | ||