Best for performances, installations, and other face-to-face live events.<\/p>\n
Accost visitors with a clipboard and pen.<\/p>\n
Best for early tests of an online project.<\/p>\n
Actively try to get a representative<\/em> sample.<\/p>\n Create occasions for testing, eg schedule demos of installations or performances for your classmates.<\/p>\n For mailed\/emailed surveys, expect less than 10% to respond. So if you want 10 responses, you need to contact 100 people.<\/p>\n Requires a lot of promotion.<\/p>\n Schedule each phase separately in your Gantt chart:<\/p>\n About 1-2 weeks of deployment.<\/p>\n 3-10 people.<\/p>\n Don’t worry about a representative sample.<\/p>\n Can be friends, roommates, relatives.<\/p>\n About 1-2 weeks of deployment.<\/p>\n 10-20 people.<\/p>\n Draw from classmates, unless they are not a representative sample.<\/p>\n May require throwing out any previously accumulated content.<\/p>\n About 4-8 weeks of promotion, followed by 4-8 weeks of deployment.<\/p>\n Can be shorter for live events.<\/p>\n Should not be friends, roommates, or relatives.<\/p>\n May require throwing out any previously accumulated content.<\/p>\n Occur in the year after you graduate.<\/p>\n Goal is not just to improve the project, but also to attract the means to sustain it (funders, advertisers, clients).<\/p>\n Ideally should not require throwing out previous content.<\/p>\n The more quantitative, the easier it will be to compile statistics. But leave some room for comments if possible, to capture what you didn’t include but is important to your respondents.<\/p>\n What’s your GPA? (4.0, 3.84, 2.37, …)<\/p>\n How many computers do you own? (1, 2, 3, …)<\/p>\n How much computer experience do you have? (Expert, Moderate, Newbie, …)<\/p>\n What’s your ethnic background? (Latino, White, African-American, …)<\/p>\n How did you like this course? (“It sucked because…”)<\/p>\n One of the main purposes of testing is not to come to a single conclusion (“Everyone likes my capstone!”) but to identify and explain differences.<\/p>\n Example: A new media installation asks how technically savvy visitors are, to see if that affected their enjoyment of the work.<\/p>\n Example: A Web site randomizes which of two versions of its front page visitors see, then logs which spurred more click-throughs to deeper content.<\/p>\n Best for catching users when their experience and motivation is fresh.<\/p>\n Gathering and presenting feedback Choosing a sample Random Best for performances, installations, and other face-to-face live events. Accost visitors with a clipboard and pen. Hand-picked Best for early tests of an online project. Actively try to get a representative sample. Create occasions for testing, eg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolineblais.net\/capstone2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Mass-invited<\/h3>\n
\nScheduling testing<\/h2>\n
Pre-alpha phase<\/h3>\n
Alpha phase<\/h3>\n
Beta phase<\/h3>\n
Postgraduate phase\/s<\/h3>\n
\nFeedback format<\/h2>\n
Data types<\/h3>\n
Quantitative<\/h4>\n
Continuous (decimals)<\/h5>\n
Discrete (whole numbers)<\/h5>\n
Qualitative<\/h4>\n
Ordinal (rank ordered categories)<\/h5>\n
Nominal (categories without rank)<\/h5>\n
Freeform text (comments)<\/h5>\n
\nExplaining differences<\/h2>\n
Differences in respondents<\/h3>\n
Correlate demographic differences with other responses.<\/h4>\n
Differences between versions of the work<\/h3>\n
Create two versions of the experience and share them with different visitors to test for a preference or demographic disparity (“A\/B” testing).<\/h4>\n
\nHelpful tools<\/h2>\n
Online survey sites<\/h3>\n
SurveyMonkey.com<\/h4>\n
Doodle.com<\/h4>\n
Google Charts<\/h4>\n
Offline applications<\/h3>\n
Microsoft Excel<\/h4>\n
Apple Numbers<\/h4>\n
Onboard surveys<\/h3>\n
Drupal Polling module<\/h4>\n
\nSurvey examples<\/h2>\n
Seeing Double<\/a>: a test of emulation as a preservation strategy.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"