When you want to do ethnography

with oil painters, you need to recruit participants, but you know it is not

easy to find oil painters. What sampling method will you use?

Before you can do any of the

research mentioned above, you need to go through ethics applications. What right(s)

do the participants have that you should inform them about?

Which of the following issues are

visual usability problems that apply to this interface:

You learn that some oil painters

take photos of their paintings at various stages of the creation process. You want

to find out how representative this practice is. What method will be most appropriate

for you to use?

The designer will try some

measures to improve the visual interface. Which of the following are concerned

with the concept of

You have designed a lo-fi prototype

for oil painters to store and manage the digital copies of their works, and you

want to collect some initial feedback from oil painters about the design in an exploratory

way. What method will be most appropriate for you to use?

Now you have a workable

prototype, and you wish to conduct an ethnographic study to understand how oil

painters incorporate this new technology into their creative practices. However,

you, as a software engineer, have certain ideas about the design and creation

process. Which of the following would be good advice on how to proceed?

You want to do a survey to

learn about oil painters’ use of a particular technology in the UK. You know

that there is an online oil painter community, and you invite 100 of those who

have been active in the recent 6 months to do the survey. 24 reply. Members of

the online painter community are called:

You want to find out in

contextually relevant details how this technology will actually be used in the

oil painting studios, which are often private. What techniques will be the most

appropriate to use to collect that data?

A colleague is running a study

where a user is asked to sit in front of a laptop, and press the space bar

every time a shape appears on screen.

In which band of Newell’s 'time scale of human action' would this study

fall?