Monday, November 10, 2014

Task 7: Field research project outline



I decided to stay with "Information flow in HCI" topic because after doing some work on this topic I thought I can get a better understanding of it rather than a new subject. Aleksei and I would like to work on this, and have done some planning.

Overall topic or problem description 
nowadays almost everything is done online using ICT tools and technics. considering that HCI program is a subset of ICT and is presented by informatics institute, we should have the best connected system with good information flow. however it is not the case in this program(or maybe whole department). 
 
Description of inquiry context
Context of inquiry is relatively known. we both study in this program and have weekly contact with HCI program related matters. we have already done some field work in the form of contextual inquiry.

Inquiry focus and analytical interest(s)
Since we study theory of HCI in parallel with this course, we are very interested to apply some of those knowledge in this context. two main theories that we would like to look into are: 
-activity theory
-CSCW and group theories 

Contextual inquiry interviews (and other types of data gathering) planned 
We did not interview all of the steak-holders by ourselves, therefore the first thing we will do is to interview at least one of each steak-holder group, here: Student, lecturer, staff .. 

Intended project outcome(s) 
We hope to find out the sources of problem and bottlenecks that slows down the information flow in HCI program and gather some change and enhancement ideas to improve the situation.

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