Weekly Status Update #4

Week of February 27

Team Members: Sonia Mody, Talia Smith, Andres Antonio, Evan Zlotnick

Received survey responses (~30)
- We are still receiving responses from sending out the survey in the Facebook group and directly to friends and family
- We also made QR codes (with a link to the survey) to hand out to the people we interview along with other employees in the store
Started interviewing participants in retail spaces (~5)
- We went to Target and Total Wine and More and talked to a range of employees from team lead to cashier to HR coordinator
Gained a lot of insight into potential users
- By talking to people in person, we saw their enthusiasm for the topic of gamification and asked more open-ended questions that gave us more information

Delayed the process of creating user personas another week
Needed to revise survey questions/answers after we had initially published it
- This included adding response choices and demographic/contextual questions, as well as rewording various questions

Getting people to agree to be interviewed
- Obtaining consent to record interviews
Clarifying some metrics for our survey questions
- We had to think of ways to measure happiness and motivation in ways that were relevant and substantive to our research

Update the survey and interview questions
- As we do our final rounds of research we want to make sure we get the most valuable and specific information possible
Finish our interviews
- Over the weekend we will go in person to do more interviews (~5 more)
- We plan to go into retail spaces in Davis
Analyze our research and draw conclusions
- We hope to come up with needs, confusions, and likes, that we see from the user end
- We also will summarize what gamification aspects that are currently implemented by other applications work well
Make user personas and journey maps
- This will be done both independently and as a group