CONTEXTUAL RESEARCH
COLLABORATION | CAPTURING ITS ESSENCE AT SCAD
COLLABORATION | CAPTURING ITS ESSENCE AT SCAD
Contextual Research provided our team with the techniques necessary to conduct useful research of a novel domain in context, while gaining knowledge and expertise to contribute to the design process in user-centered products and systems. During the course we experienced the various contextual research methods, including interviewing, ethnographic research, contextual inquiry and cultural probing techniques. This provided us with the opportunity to gather and analyze a large quantity of user research data and information in which models were created to convey user behavior to the client.
Our challenge was to research the present culture of collaboration within the various schools at SCAD for The Collaborative Learning Center. Created in response to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation, the The Collaborative Learning Center sees collaboration as an important part of design. Our team's research and resulting opportunity implications would be utilized in efforts to make collaborative projects for students, faculty and external partners more accessible for all involved so that students can gain real world experiences before graduating.
The following images are representative of our journey; beginning with secondary research, mind mapping, interpretation of survey data, ecosystem development, formulation of strategic research questions, designing of elicitation methods and tools, field research, interviewing, gathering, synthesizing and analyzing research data, and the organization and structure of this information into various models which then led us to various usable insights and innovation opportunities.
Our challenge was to research the present culture of collaboration within the various schools at SCAD for The Collaborative Learning Center. Created in response to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation, the The Collaborative Learning Center sees collaboration as an important part of design. Our team's research and resulting opportunity implications would be utilized in efforts to make collaborative projects for students, faculty and external partners more accessible for all involved so that students can gain real world experiences before graduating.
The following images are representative of our journey; beginning with secondary research, mind mapping, interpretation of survey data, ecosystem development, formulation of strategic research questions, designing of elicitation methods and tools, field research, interviewing, gathering, synthesizing and analyzing research data, and the organization and structure of this information into various models which then led us to various usable insights and innovation opportunities.
Feel free to explore our Process Book for further details and documentation of this project.
