{"id":575,"date":"2008-02-29T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/contextual-inquiry-presentations\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:45:56","slug":"contextual-inquiry-presentations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/portfolio\/contextual-inquiry-presentations","title":{"rendered":"Contextual Inquiry Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>After introducing ThoughtWorks to the method of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Contextual Inquiry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usabilitynet.org\/tools\/contextualinquiry.htm\">Contextual Inquiry<\/a>, I carried out a series of presentations at company events throughout the year.<\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1.5em\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"featured_img\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/Contextual_Inquiry_poster_web.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>What did I do?<\/h6>\n<p>Following a presentation at the local ThoughtWorks Chicago &#8220;Home Office Day,&#8221; I was asked to do the talk at the North America Away Day Conference and UK Away Day Conference. The presentation depicted the findings from a Contextual Design project with a Construction and Mining Equipment manufacturer, and discussed how user input and analysis can lead directly to the design and redesign of business processes. I also created a poster that is currently on display at ThoughtWorks corporate headquarters that gives high-level details about how to carry out a Contextual Inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Contextual Inquiry is a method used as part of a Contextual Design process that aims to gather user data by interacting with the user in their most familiar settings. A Master\/Apprentice model is employed such that the user is the master of their domain and researchers learn how the user does their work.<\/p>\n<p>Using the data gathered with this method, the team is able to see the intricacies and details of the user&#8217;s role(s), and can implement software and general process-based changes to improve efficiency and enjoyment, and potentially decrease effort on the user&#8217;s part.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation was based on <a href=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/portfolio\/client-construction-equipment-manufacturer\">work with a major manufacturer<\/a> and led to the redesign of an already existing system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After introducing ThoughtWorks to the method of Contextual Inquiry, I carried out a series of presentations at company events throughout the year. What did I do? Following a presentation at the local ThoughtWorks Chicago &#8220;Home Office Day,&#8221; I was asked to do the talk at the North America Away Day Conference and UK Away Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":541,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}