Nick's Commentary Week 06

Nicholas Pojman
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Monday 5/7
Re-Emailed Valdmir Orlic, site owner for maps.ucsd.edu, asking for some time of response to my series of emails. I proposed meeting in person so that we could dicuss some of the logistics of the sites, and also try to establis some sort of relationship. Hopefully, if he is wiling, and responds to my email, we will be able to implement the Google analyst program. The google anayltics program has over 80 different reports on user interaction with a site. Passed out paper surveys in one of my discussions. Received 19 more paper surveys.

Tuesday 5/8
Conducted contextual interview with female, 3rd, Sixth college student who had 2 years experience living on campus. here are some of the notes I took from:

- [ ] Sixth
- [ ] Sixth Academic Advising (3 minutes)
- [ ] uses search engine
- [ ] search comes up with
- [ ] re serach- Sixth college academic advising
- [ ] Can't find it
- [ ]
- [ ] goes to ucsd.edu
- [ ] searches sixth college academic advising
- [ ] finds on triton link 2nd floor on
- [ ] tritonlink has link to map
- [ ]
- [ ] Clics (15 seconds)
- [ ] search engine
- [ ] highlights clics
- [ ]
- [ ] TMC academic advising (5 minutes)
- [ ] searches "academic advising", selecting to search Thurgood
marshall
- [ ] then uses search engine
- [ ] but it comes up with ALL academic advising locations
- [ ] ucsd.edu
- [ ] searches TMC academci advising
- [ ] linked to provost.ucsd.edu/marshall
- [ ] still can't find
- [ ] inconclusive
- [ ] mamp ink from tritionlink.
- [ ] use existing landmarks
- [ ] mapquest directions
- [ ] main roads
- [ ] nataorium
- [ ] can't read street names
- [ ] can't read building names
- [ ] starting location
- [ ] getting in perspective
- [ ] what does
- [ ] searches aren't narrow enough
- [ ] worst were academic advising
- [ ] lists reasons why to go to academic advising but location is
difficult to find
- [ ] maps doesn't bring up same info that searching ucsd.edu does
- [ ] bigger map in one direction
- [ ] too ambiguous
- [ ] relied a lot on exisiting knowledge as reference
- [ ] description of building

Academic advising offices for each college were impossible to find on maps.ucsd.edu. Subject resorted to using ucsd.edu google search llinking them to tritonlink.ucsd.edu, and then sending them back to maps.ucsd.edu. Obviously this type of loop is an indication of poor design.


Wednesday 5/9
Group meeting. Ken, Anthony, and I discussed Ken and Mine's contextual interview. Ken's was particularily revealing because it gave us a lot of insight into someone who is constantly traveling to many of the builidings throughout campus. Ken and I dicussed making a type of personizable map, one that both employees and students could customize to fit their needs. Further contextual interviews will help us see whether or not this is something worth implementing.

Friday- left for Oakland to see mom for mothers day

Sunday 5/12

Group meeting
Agenda:
Discuss contextual interviews, start to consolidate data and collect models.


Goals for next week:

Conduct one more contextual interview
Consolidate work models from each member's contexual interview
Present data to class
Investigate Gym, natatorium, and rec gym. building layout and strucutre for muir maps prototype. Hopefully obtain some tangible copy of floor plan for implementation into paper prototype.
Conduct more paper surveys.