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<p><em>Tip:</em> In many research projects, you might not just have several people who need to be involved in shaping the research project question. In this case, a research planning workshop might be helpful to gather input and to help the team to gain mutual understanding of their interests.</p>
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<p>The research project question serves to align, communicate and plan the research project. It is relevant to you and the people you work with, but it is not relevant to your direct work with participants in research sessions. What matters in research sessions are the research session questions.</p>
<p>The research project question serves to align, communicate, and plan the research project. It is relevant to you and the people you work with, but it is not relevant to your direct work with participants in research sessions. What matters in research sessions are the research session questions.</p>
<h3 id="researchSessionQuestions">Writing research session questions</h3>
<p>The research session questions are the questions you want to ask participants, for example “Can you tell me about how you cook?” They can also be invitations you want to give, like “Can you show me some recipes you like to use?” or “can you show me around your kitchen?” Some of your questions are not voiced at all, you ask them <em>yourself</em> to guide your attention, for example “Are there annotations in their recipes?”</p>
<p>You may have noticed that such questions such questions don’t target specific, short answers typical of surveys, like “How much do you like your Job on a scale from 1(I hate it) to 5 (I love it)?” or “Please name your most frequently used app”. Such surveys are usually analyzed quantitatively. In this book, I focus on understanding how and why people do what they do—qualitative research. I show you how to ask questions to which you can get in longer and descriptive answers. By this, you will learn what you did not know before. Such questions are called <em>open questions</em> because they don’t have a pre-determined (closed) set of answers. Open questions are, for example, “Describe how you started your work today” or “Why did you add sugar to the dough?”</p>
<p>The research session questions are the questions you want to ask participants, for example, “Can you tell me about how you cook?” They can also be invitations you want to give, like “Can you show me some recipes you like to use?” or “can you show me around your kitchen?” Some of your questions are not voiced at all, you ask them <em>yourself</em> to guide your attention, for example “Are there annotations in their recipes?”</p>
<p>You may have noticed that such questions don’t target specific, short answers typical of surveys, like “How much do you like your job on a scale from 1(I hate it) to 5 (I love it)?” or “Please name your most frequently used app”. Such surveys are usually analyzed quantitatively. In this book, I focus on understanding how and why people do what they do—qualitative research. I show you how to ask questions to which you can get in longer and descriptive answers. By this, you will learn what you did not know before. Such questions are called <em>open questions</em> because they don’t have a pre-determined (closed) set of answers. Open questions are, for example, “Describe how you started your work today” or “Why did you add sugar to the dough?”</p>
<p>It makes sense to write down your research session questions. This helps you to remember what to ask and allows you to review and improve your questions. Writing down the session questions is also useful for collaborating with co-researchers: They might have good ideas what could be asked and collaborating on the questions will help you to understand the motivations and strengths of your co-researchers.</p>
<p>When I start writing my research session questions, I often structure them around three themes: <em>Motivations</em>, <em>Activities</em> and <em>Problems</em>. They are relevant for design, and easy to remember with the mnemonic <em>M-A-P</em>.</p>
<p>When I start writing my research session questions, I often structure them around three themes: <em>Motivations</em>, <em>Activities</em>, and <em>Problems</em>. They are relevant for design, and easy to remember with the mnemonic <em>M-A-P</em>.</p>
<p>Questions about <em>motivations</em> are concerned with what the participant wants to achieve and what is important to them. Motivations can give you context to what the participants do.</p>
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<li>“What is the most annoying thing about cooking?”</li>
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