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 other universities and compare them to Koc University.

-Bilgi University (360 tour in the campus)-Metu (map of the campus and academic buildings)-ITU (the campus map and map of the academic buildings)-Beykent University (registration guide and 360 tour in the campus) -Boğaziçi University (guide for disabled students)

• 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: Was there any problem during the Registration Process?

• Go Broad: Explain me a different process which could be more beneficial than the recent one.

• Probe Deep: Tell me a story from your experience in the registration process in which you felt emotional (happy, stressed, depressed, relaxed, etc.)

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: Other UniversitiesTo see whether they have the same system as we do or a better

one.

• Things to see: Websites-Bilgi University (360 tour in the campus)-Metu (map of the campus and academic buildings)-ITU (the campus map and map of the academic buildings)-Beykent University (registration guide and 360 tour in the campus) -Boğaziçi University (guide for disabled students)

• 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.