This week Erin, Professor Siek, and I conducted a scaled down version of a co-design study we will eventually be doing with a group of about 10 people.  On Tuesday, 3 people kindly participated in a pre-study.  I was originally a little nervous to be standing in front of a group of people and my adviser conducting a workshop, but Erin and I built a good rapport with the participants and I relaxed soon after beginning!

A small portion of the things that I noticed:

• one person leads, one person takes notes – I wasn’t able to sit down and aggregate my thoughts until later that day and I think that I forgot a lot of things that were worth writing down and thinking about
• need to be more clear with instructions – perhaps create visual cues
• “you guys” – Professor Siek alerted me on this.  I didn’t realize how unprofessional I sounded until she mentioned that.  No more referring to a group of people as “you guys”!

Other updates: We’ve got a script that works for sending texts with Twilio.  Katie coordinated with the IT people at SOIC to get a server up and running so we can start replying to text messages from Twilio.

To do for this week: finish writing IRB proposal, get server up and running, work on replying to text messages