This was written May 16, 2008 but I am publishing here today, November 25th, 2008, for archival purposes even though it is desperately late.
At first, I planned to have four contextual inquiries. Turns out though that since I am just starting, just having preliminary interviews might work better. Anyway, I had only reserved an hour per interviewee.
Putting it all together was kind of scary, I haven’t done actual interviews before. luckily I had a “training interview” with Saila Ovaska, who also told me a lot about what to take into accoung (note taking facilities, audio recording).
I am pretty much satisfied with the 4 interviews I had yesterday. They were not formal and the perceptions were quite general and probably incomplete, but nevertheless each of them gave me precious insight about the lifetime of a quiz and/or what electronic exams are about for different teachers. I recorded each of the one-hour sessions and it seems now that I will need to listen them through to at least keep my thinking process going.
next, I will proceed with gathering all my current perceptions into another prototype just to keep things concrete. But the perceptions also need to be documented as such. For this I am using a document template, will need to make sure the one I have doesnt have a retricting licence. Why does this has to be a template, why can we not have all the info built as an app that would also work out all of the references?