Easier and easier...
The stuff you can do on the web gets easier and easier and easier every frickin day. During my ongoing research efforts today I some how stumbled into another ideation session with Wyatt a fellow design researcher here at lextant.
I rambled on and on about an idea i've been tooling with lately, doing pager research studies with SMS + chatscreen like interfaces. Whaaat?!
A long time ago I used to hear researchers talk about pager studies. They'd give people pagers and then page them at certain times and ask them "whats happening now in X Y or Z experience you're having". The idea was to remotely collect data on the now. Get into people's NOW space and collect data at the moment. Fast forward 6 years or so and I began following trends online with people leveraging SMS chat messaging systems in different ways. And I started seeing all these bit ideas unfolding.
People using chat screens in bars and lounges giving people ways to anonyomously interact with an audience. You could screen the content of course, no F words please. Still it was interesting. What else could do with this tech? I saw some posts online the other day about bands playing on stage having a huge SMS text chat screen setup so that participants in the audience could text what song they wanted to hear next or even ask the band a question. Thats frickin cool.
So I started thinking, what about pager studies reborn al la SMS? I've also been looking for a way to display live data in the office, as a way to showing people that collecting live data is very real and very possible. So I imagine this display at work with SMS chat text coming thru to it, I envision texting participants questions, they reply and the data unfolds live in person in front of the whole office. It goes, every day new messages occur.
At first I thought investing in this tech would be expensive, and the coding, and all the back end stuff to do it, very costly and way over my head.. boy was I wrong about that!
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