Interview Study: Investigation

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This interview

The results of the questionaire will be reviewed to determine appropriate candidates to interview further. Candidates will be a mix between those who are successful and unsuccessful at self-regulation. The purpose of this interview is to further investigate on uncovered themes that may be worth exploring.

From this interview, a "scenario" will be determined to base the prototype from. Interview participant results will be used to create a clear persona that will be used to evaluate the proposed prototype.

Question Method

Hartwell, C. J., Johnson, C. D., & Posthuma, R. A. (2019). Are we asking the right questions? Predictive validity comparison of four structured interview question types. Journal of Business Research, 100, 122–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.03.026

Participant Requirements

Based on the pilot study results, a provisional persona has been created to target specific participants for further investigation. The characteristics of the participant include:

• The participant has intention of actively pursuing their personal ambitions, however may or may not struggle to keep them active in their lives
• Has a smartphone, relies on smartphone or desktop as a tool to support human functions, has a personal self-authored goal or ambition (long-term, linked to well-being) to achieve something beyond everyday sustenance and survival, has difficulty finding time to progress these goals, perceives distractions as a threat to personal or life achievement.
• Looking for subjects both successful and unsuccessful at applying strategies towards self-regulation
• Screening to be done through online profile-questionnaire to obtain profile data to screen eligible participants
• Participants with this profile may also be used for potential further experimental research with prototyping test.

Technical Support

• Audio Recording
• Time-Keeping

Interview Questions

Outline Structure:

Situation Time-Blocking: bringing awareness to required dedication of time+energy to progress one’s own pursuits

• https://www.hotjar.com/blog/user-personas/

The interview questions are as follows:

Introductory Script:

• Hello, my name’s [moderator]. I’ll be leading our interview today. As you may already know based on the questionnaire sent out, [Alex M. Chong] is conducting research on the topic of leveraging personal technology devices, so that we can self-regulate ourselves in progressing our own personal pursuits or goals. The research is particularly investigating existing techniques, and perhaps struggles, to learn more about what possibilities can be proposed.
• I’d like to start by thanking for you volunteering your time to speak with us. Your feedback is valuable and will be used to inform our research and future design decisions. Just to confirm, we’d like keep this interview to [20 minutes, but it may reach 30 minutes]. Does that still work for you?
• Great. If you need a break or to stop at any time, please let me know.
• Please be aware that there are no wrong answers — you’re the expert of your own experience. We’re doing interviews like these to hear things from your perspective.
• With your permission, I’d like to record this call. The recording will only be used to help us in our research – but it won’t be shared with anyone except those directly involved in the research process. Recording this call also helps me, because I don’t have to take as many notes! Is that okay?
• Finally, I’d like to know if you have any questions regarding this interview process?
• Great. Let’s get started!

Profile

• Please state your name, your age, and your profession

Goals & Motivations: [experience, non-situational]

To establish a particular scenario (2-3 examples) for a self-determined pursuit, and if they are actively or passively pursuing it in their personal time. To understand what motivates them towards this pursuit (why it’s important), as well as what their ideal state is when actively progressing this personal ambition.

• Definition: things you wish to progress and accomplish, that don’t have any external pressures or obligations; just your own desire for accomplishment.
• What kind of personal self-determined pursuits do you have going on right now? Provide 2 exmaples.
• How did you come up with... / What motivates you?
• Are you actively, or passively working on progessing ...
• in terms of your progressing your pursuits, what’s your ideal routine/effort?
• Is it important for you to achieve your personal ambitions? Why or why not?

Barriers: [experience, non-situational & situational]

To determine what methods have been attempted to progress their self-determined pursuits, and the barriers/challenges experienced from past methods. To validate if they struggle with remembering their pursuits and what causes them to forget.

• Are you experiencing challenges or struggles while progressing your personal pursuits? Why or why not?
• Do you struggle with remembering to actively work on your pursonal pursuits?
  • What do you think could be the causes of losing track of your personal pursuits?

Current Pratice: [knowledge, non-situation specific]

To gain insight on the existing techniques the subject uses to manage their digital calendar. To determine how they prioritize their unstructured personal time towards their own pursuit, and if they track their progress.

• How do you remember or keep track of your personal pursuits?
• Do you use a calendar to manage your personal time to progress your personal pursuits? Why or why not?
  • How do you use your calendar to manage your unstructured time?
  • Describe the process you go through when creating personal calendar events for yourself.
  • How do you determine what to prioritize?
  • Do you find using your calendar an effective way to progress you towards your self-determined pursuits? Why?
  • make-entry, time-scale when planning
  • is it literal, or processing pursuits?
  • What do you estimate as your success-rate when committing to your own time-blocks?
• Between yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily
• If you do not use a calendar, what techniques do you use to ensure you are progressing your personal pursuits?
  • How do you keep yourself accountable? How do you ensure you are successful at your progress?
• How do you determine what to prioritize?

Needs: [knowledge, situation-specific]

To determine if the proposed factors are perceived as useful at solving perceived needs.

• The following will ask you to rate a proposed function for a solution that helps support bringing you closer to your achieving ambitions. It will be on a scale from 0-5, where 0 is perceived as “not useful” and 5 as “extremely useful”.
• If a computer-aided solution is able to successfullly:
  • bring regular awareness to your personal goals, how do rate its perceived usefulness?
  • aid in structuring your unstructured time towards your personal goals, how do rate its perceived usefulness?
  • leverage social-accountability to motivate you towards achieving your personal pursuits, how do you rate its utility?
• What other functional features do you believe may be useful to help progress you towards your personal pursuits?

Followup Questions:

• Opportunity to ask questions

2.2 Interview Results Analysis

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Audio recording of interviews will be captured and to create transcriptions of their responses.

Text analysis will used in addition to qualitative research analysis, to combine quantitative insights as a mixed method to improve the quality of results. This allows for contextual information to be overlaid with empirical insights on word relationships, to either discover uncovered themes or to reinforce found themes.

Voyant Tools, which is an open-source web-based application used for tech analysis to extract word frequency and word relationship and to gain an empirical understanding of potential uncovered themes as well as used to validate discovered themes from qualitative analysis;.

Data Collection

• Audio recording needs to be processed and converted into text

Data Cleaning

• Text will need to be groomed and prepared for text analysis. [To explain process]

Data Analysis

• Text-Analysis