Prepare ResearchCurriculum & Space

Cem AltınözEzgi Atay

Leyla Hazal Çetin

Users, Experts, Extreme Users

• Newcomer• Families of newcomers• Koc university associates

Registration office Student dean Mentor (guide) students Alis teachers

Inspiring locations, Analogous Settings

• Observe registration processes of the best universities in the world and compare them to Koc University.

• Find out if the place of the registration process can be changed. -Gym? -Garden?

Select Research Participants

• User type: Geographical– People from Istanbul wont be as foreigner as

people coming from different cities. Treating those different groups in different ways could end up beneficially.

– Find out if people coming from outside İstanbul are having more difficulties.

Select Research Participants

• User type: Different Backgrounds– The school they come from affect the orientation

therefore grouping people from similar backgrounds would make the orientation easier.

– See if people from similar backgrounds (such as students of foreign schools of İstanbul) are having less trouble in orientation.

Select Research Participants

• User type: Behavioral- confused– Some students could be more confused through

the registration process. There could be an information desk so that much confused newcomers can use when they need help.

– Find newcomers that were too confused during registration and ask them if this could help them.

Select Research Participants

• User type: Behavioral- attention– Some students give more attention to the process

then others. Therefore these type of students know more about the process. Some don’t.

– Find newcomers that called the school or visited the webpage before coming to the registration. And compare them to the ones that have not.

Build a Question Guide: Interview

• Start Specific: Would you prefer a registration process in which you enter the school, get your ID card and complete the process without working on any documents?

• Go Broad: Could you please tell me an incident you had during the registration process which comes to your mind first, when you think of the process?

• Probe Deep: Please imagine a moment when you get emotional (if you got emotional during the process) during the registration process. What was the reason?

Build a Question Guide: Interview

• Start Specific: If you had a chance to change something in the registration process, what would it be and why?

• Go Broad: If changing anything about the process could have been in your responsibility, what would that be?

• Probe Deep: Please imagine that you could have one of these special powers: 1) Getting invisible 2) Having extreme speed 3) Copying yourself (having a duplicate). Which one of these three would you like to use during the registration process and when?

Interviews & Questionnaires Planned

• Gökçen Baruh interview questions• Facebook survey to be made in “2013

Girişliler” group, in order to find some examples of the user types we decided.

• A survey about the recent registration process, to be made in ALIS classes to the newcomers. (Bülent Kılıç)

• Registration office Esra Edin

• Observation Site: Best Universities of Europe and USTo see whether they have the same system as we do or a

better one.

• Observation Site: Registration Systems of Enterprises that can be used as a model for our university

• Things to see: Websites

• Things to do: Interviews with people from different universities, surveys to the newcomers of Koc University

Build a Question Guide: Observation

Prepare For Fieldwork

Team Member & Role• Hazal- team leader. Be sure

we are following the steps and combine the processes

• Cem- space. What would be more efficient?

• Ezgi- curriculum. Analyze the problems.

Location/ Interviewer Adress, Date, Time

• Gökçen Baruh- October 10 15.30

• Esra Edin- Associate Registrar- October 22 14.00

• Bülent Kılıç’s ALIS Class Students- Survey

• Zeynep Yavuzcezzar- Mentor- October 23 16.00

• Parla Buyruk- Mentor- October 23 15.00

Check List Prepare Survey Questions for the ALIS ClassCreate an online survey to identify student user types Find Team members’ contact details Find a model of the university (to identify the

locations) Find a camera (to have the registration example

video) Notepads and pens Identify the users and find their contact information

Thank you.