Interviews are used to develop a deeper understanding of a given situation through well thought out questioning and follow up.
Interviewing co-design participants. As part of the co-design process, we wanted to reflect upon the co-design activities we had held. Our goal was to identify the experience of the cultural heritage professionals, designers and technologists in the project had of the co-design activities we had used.
We approached cultural heritage professionals and designers within the project who had participated in at least one of the co-design activities throughout the meSch project. The interviews were semi-structured: we prepared a number of questions to ask them beforehand as an interview guide. However, we allowed the interviewee guide the conversation so long as the topic was relevant, particularly if they had interesting opinions and insights on the co-design activities. All of the the interviews were recorded using an audio recorder.
The audio recordings of the interviews were transcribed. The transcripts were then analysed and several main themes were extracted. These themes were subsequently used as input to a focus group. For more details, please see the description of the Focus Groups method .
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