I continue to collect data from my second year project participants. I have 6 videos from participant 01 (5 hours of recorded desktop/online activity) and 2 videos from participant 02 (1 hour of recorded activity). Participant 03 has consented but has not yet shared any video recordings. Sadly, the individuals I had lined up as participants 04 and 05 have most likely dropped out. I am looking for one more willing individual but will probably be unable to secure anyone until at least next week.
Tim, Amanda, and I are transcribing and coding each video file, and we are making sure each file gets reviewed by at least two of us. At this point, we are about half-way through coding the files we’ve collected.
I’ve also been preparing some interview questions for participants 01 and 02. I hope to conduct a preliminary interview with them early next week.
Also last week: I created, piloted, and revised two surveys for the social search project at PARC. We’re trying to collect 50–100 responses (initially) from Mechanical Turk. So far we have 40 for the searching survey and 5 for the organization/tagging survey. See this post for more details.
Finally, Stu Card and I prepared our CHI madness slides (and 30-second spiel). If you’re going to CHI2008, come to our talk! We’re in the “Help Me Search” session on Wednesday, Apr 9, from 9:00–10:30AM.
