Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating notes for affinity diagrams

2008-05-15 Thread Chauncey Wilson
There are several issues here: 1. How do the people going through the interview code items that are very similar (making the same point with a high-degree of inter-rater reliability). 2. What if a single user repeats something more than once during a single interview. 3. What if the same item com

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Creating notes for affinity diagrams

2008-05-15 Thread Matthew Zuckman
It depends on the application - I generally don't weight items as a result of frequency as it can be tough to know why one item was mentioned more than others. For example, many people might notice that a car is dirty, but thats not necessarily more important that the fact the it has a flat tire.

[IxDA Discuss] Creating notes for affinity diagrams

2008-05-14 Thread oliver green
Hi All, I am writing up notes for an affinity diagram session. I see that users are repeating some points during the interviews - i.e. these are issues that a majority of users are facing. Should I make just one note per issue or every time the issue is raised? I guess what I am trying to ask is