Interviews

Last night, I went out and used some left over Christmas cash to buy myself a digital voice recorder. As soon as I got home I conned my roommate into doing an interview with me. I asked her to explain the game of soccer to me as if I had no knowledge of the game, and in fact had never even heard of it before. I repeated this with another person, who I approached at random at Forsythe Park. Then I asked the same question of a group of people, who collaborated in explaining the game to me. I still have to transcribe and analyze what I have found.


Things to look for:

1) The way the mind structures data (general to specific... topically... naratively... from stringing relationships)
2) terminology used
3) concepts difficult to explain
4) how well I was able to follow their explination based on their method of structuring the data
5) good use of the language
6) problems of the language used (ex. possible word confusion due to multiple meanings)