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=FINAL REPORT: DUE WED APRIL 7, 2010 @ 2PM J219/223 = //Tutorial:// Be prepared to show material collected, including your project journals and visual revisioning of one aspect of the campus, Select it and spread it out, to demonstrate how you researched and applied your methods.

//**Your Final Report:**//
 * 1)** **Project Journal** (This wiki)
 * 2)** **File of Collected Material**, Documents, Photos, Drawings, Visuals, etc. range of material but select for impact
 * 3)** **1,500 word report** (5-6 pages),
 * 1) summarizing PERSONA method, how far we were able to pursue this method (what worked/didn't) - what personas can contrubute to the design process
 * 2) DEFINE THE RESEARCH QUESTION (that motivated your process)
 * 3) brief description of other research methods you were presented on Mar 9, (guys please include your results/your notes that you wrote down when you met with the other group members - how they might apply persona in their research question)
 * 4)** **Bibliography**
 * 5)** **Visual Exploration**


 * (3) March 9, 2010**: JIGSAW STRATEGY: switching group members


 * PSYCHOGRAPHICS**

- the use of demographics to study and measure attitudes, values, lifestyles, and opinions, as for marketing purposes. 2. used with pl. verb the data obtained form such study

INTERIOR DESIGN

//ANIA// - FOCUSED on questionnaires, focused group, surveys (IF WE WERE) technology - how people feel about technology (experiments) lighting and they focused on interior design. - opinionated and how they feel about things, lots of qualitative data, and people's behavior

- seeing through other people's eyes - immersing yourself in the culture - since we are student students we do count - wanted to do a survey, conduct projects, etc. but had lots of rules and limitations
 * PHOTO ETHNOGRAPHY**

SPACE USAGE, and how other students see the space (ex. someone who lives on campus vs. someone who commutes) - to give 12 disp. cameras, to different students - and how they viewed... - DESIGN/CREATIVE INSTALLMENT/ADVERTISEMENT, ETC

//EMILY// - www.emsproject.blogspot.com "does not feel like an actual project, did not feel concrete" []

- A lot like Photo Ethnogrpahy - researchers who have the camera, and a lot more biased.
 * VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY**

FOOD/WASTE - split it up TIM HORTONS, VENDING MACHINES, WASHROOM, GARBAGE RECY - all these services, and how close they are within each other - proximity - found out: disposal is small, and useless, poor design. "They didn't look like they belonged there) - confused other "cans" as the garbage not not actually waste disposal - a lot of garbage bins "did not make sense" - Placements of garbage bins was not logical - interesting photographs of the results.

//CHRISTINE// - MAKE A MAP of the campus, and plot out certain services for the entire college.


 * March 9 **

Persona group was split up into groups that shared common focus, but different methods. notes were taken when each member from a different focus spoke:

__Nick__ Psychographics - focused on people's feelings and how they react to the space they are in - interior design of the classes YSDN students learn in and use was observed - identified all problems with desks, computer access with plug ins for battery chargers, colours of the walls, placements of the desks, some not facing the lecture podium which hinders the learning process. - lighting's effect on students as well as the different areas set in a class such as, clustered vs. large unused space - interviews and surveys were planned for students to fil out and be able to set down on paper the issues they have with certain areas of the classes.

__Kenneth__ Visual Anthropologies - basically it requires a journal of taking photos of an area to record changes throughout a normal school day. - mainly focused on food and waste as well as washroom facilities - throughout different times of the day, photos were taken with notes about the exact time taken and location, and if clean or messy. - photos were collected to see results and state a conclusion or solution to the issue.

__Evgenia__ Surveys, Questionnaires - in this particular group, questions are asked like: "why do buses stop away from entrance" "why was the school built here in Oakville rather then a heavy populated city like Toronto?" "is it possible for Sheridan to grow/expand?" - questionnaire is still being developed - focused on getting opinions on improvements or views of the school - geographics is included in the design research process

Reflection wtih main group members
 * (3)-2 __RESULTS, March 16, 2010__**

- the extra space in the main Illustration A hallway, is pro because it is used so frequently by the different personas that exist in Sheridan College. Therefore we decided to keep the existing hallway and it's existing use, but improve for more comfort, and improve and maximize efficiency and - pretty much an interior design problem? making it more efficient for illustration students, - sound is a huge issue as per an illustration student - ADD, disorders prone - as per an illustration student - hallway is right beside the classrooms and sound carries throughout the wall, no closure - there is clear advantages and disadvantages of having this hallway, therefore - make posters/ clear signs - could we add windows in the seating area, to maximize light? - could we have a table ramp? since people are drawing a lot, however it would take away from free space, and would people spill more into the hallway? - conflict with art fundamental students, fighting for social space - some display have imacs in them, plugged in, and the computers do not even work or display anything.. display within a display? - security issues - double padding, lie down properly - people nap here - animation students have own building, illustration - illustration tuition: $7400 - padding extra on the bench (double seating for people against wall and the bench- aldonna pic) - lights installed - timed, when it's dark outside