For the ethnography, I will be teaming up with Jorge Perez and Stephen Morrow to do Steven's study of use of workspace. We would do Stephen's 3rd idea.
"Study of how campus common areas (The commons, the library, zachary lobby, etc.) are mostly used by students. Study? Sleep? Group Meetings? This would study students at Texas A&M that spend most of their free-time / time in between classes, on campus. From this I hope to learn how our campus common areas are being utilized, and if there are any deficiencies in them. To study them, I would visit different common areas around campus at different times of the day and examine what people are doing. Are they on a laptop, a cell phone, reading a book, sleeping, etc. Quantitative data would include the different activities of people in the common areas. Qualitative would be how many people are performing a certain action, and the time of day they are performing it. The interaction of this study would be minimal. I would simply walk around common areas observing people's action. If needed, I could ask a few questions about what they are doing and what they normally do in the common area. In the end, I hope this ethnographic research would allow common areas designed in the future to better meet the needs of the students. For example, do they need more couches for sleeping, tables for eating, or group areas for studying?+
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