This would be kind of a second update for the week, so it's going to be shorter!

We had an interview with the divers for SDOF this week, and we are just so greatful that Courtney is so incredibly helpful in our project. It was probably quite an effort for her to put together an interview for 5 divers and us to meet at the same time of the day on a weekday.

All the participants were very informative about what they had to say. Unfortunately it also often diverged from the issue at hand (the question i asked them). Since we only had a limited amount of time of about an hour for all 5 divers, we had to do it all the same time which made it a bit complicated and frustrating to manage. I think just because of the way it was set up, that is, with the 5 divers and my group sitting at one table in a "conference center" building, everyone just kind of had an idea that it was a conference/meeting rather than a contextual inquiry kind of thing.

I just felt at times that we lost control of the interview session as the divers began to collaborate among themselves of the ideas for our project. I wanted to intervene, but at the same time I didn't know what I could say to steer it back under our control without sounding like a complete anus.

Next time (if there ever is one!), we will DEFINATELY need to do our interviews one at a time. Maybe 2 people will be ok, but 5 people was just incredibly difficult to manage.

We then had an interpretation session Wednesday during our usual group meeting to compare notes and plan for Saturday and next week.

For next week, we are going to hopefully come up with a prototype/storyboard because we are meeting with the divers again on Tuesday. I'm not sure how many divers are going to be there, but hopefully just one or 2 of the divers we interviewed last tuesday.