Working in pairs use the provided research plan to draft a discussion guide and run a mock interview
Fill out the debrief worksheet
PURPOSE: RUN A MOCK INTERVIEW, FILL OUT A DEBRIEF WORKSHEET
For this assignment, I interviewed few student at Columbia University.
I recognize that this interviewee doesn’t have experience with Smartphone Addiction, or Social Media Isolation. However, I wanted to take the opportunity to conduct an informational interview regarding classroom learning, and sustainability actions and conversations in school environments.
Purpose of the interview:
To understand how youth think about the Internet Age.
To understand how smartphones influence their daily lives.
To understand how can I find design opportunity from their lifestyles.
Debrief documentation via post-it notes: capturing gut reactions and strong impressions
After our conversation, I took some time to write down some mentioned pain points, needs, opportunities, and preliminary insights.
Using Smartphone is a signal to Let You Interrupt Without Saying a Word
Smartphones are everywhere now and for many of us they serve as a constant companion. They keep us continually connected, filling gaps in our day, entertaining us, and demanding our attention with a string of notifications. Because they offer a convenient alternative to face-to-face conversations, and at times they butt into our chats directly, there’s a growing realization that they may be killing the art of conversation.
“Smartphones enable us to avoid direct conversations altogether. We can chat via text messages, or in real-time on social media, but there’s a danger that we’re missing out on some important aspects of communication when we do this.”
"Phones are a useful barrier for avoiding small talk, but their influence is expanding well beyond the train or the bus stop. Stories about text message break-ups are common. People take to Facebook to notify their friends and families about weddings and funerals. Phones offer a convenient opt out for any potentially uncomfortable conversation."
“When we send a text or email, or we post or tweet, we lose all but what is being said and so there is a lot of misinformation, miscommunication, and hurt feelings, because we don’t have those other sources of information that help us imbue some kind of meaning into what somebody is saying.”
“In a good conversation, the words we say are only one small part of the meaning that we convey, there’s also body language, tone of voice, facial expression,” Dr. James Roberts, Professor of Marketing at Baylor University and author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone? told Digital Trends.
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