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Sick this week :(

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What was really valuable this week was getting others opinions about our prototype. I think getting those who actually living in the neighborhood is necessary because they are our targeted group and we want them to have everything that they want. While I wasn't there myself,  my group interviewed a group of people at a nail salon and the feedback they gave helps us to think of new ways to fix our prototype, the app. One of the feedback that was given to us was to think of places where the "Community Engagement" will be held and if there is a common place where everyone can meet. This is helpful because now we can change our prototype to fix these concerns.

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While creating our prototype, it helped my group to think of more issues that could be resolved through it. Our prototype is using an app to increase community engagement and some aspects that came up during creating the prototype was ease of access. When interviewing, we found that there was a high elderly population in the community, and we were discussing whether it would be easy for them to use our app. So, we adapted the ease of use of the application in order to help those who may have a hard time using apps by making clear diagrams of the different features and adding a help button. Going through and making the prototype helped to improve our prototype at the end.

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While going through the prototyping process, what I found particularly valuable was sharing with the class. Not only was my group able to think of new ideas to help out our user, but we were able to receive feedback on our ideas and improve on them. It helped to narrow down our ideas since before, we were set on sending an ice cream truck around the neighborhood to increase neighborhood relationships, but after getting feedback, we had changed to an app to connect them since everyone seemed to think this would be helpful. Not only was this idea very practical, it was also innovative which made it seem like the best idea to try and prototype.

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While analyzing the interviews in class, what I found particularly valuable was writing down the information that was retrieved from the interviews. It really helped to compare and really see if there were overlaps between what the people said. It was also really valuable to discuss why people were discussing certain problems such as safety in the neighborhood because I hadn't noticed before how so many of the things that the interviewees said had related to each other. I think figuring out the point of view statements was really helpful because it was hard to put into words what needed to be changed in the neighborhood and why there needed to be changes also.

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While conducting the interviews around the community, the information that we received was very helpful in deciding the communities needs. One particular interview that my group has done was with a women who had lived in that community since the 70s. She noted big changes that has happened between then and now, but her biggest issues were the lack of spaces that provided activities for teenagers to do. She said how when there is nothing for them to do, they start getting into trouble and it turns into a cycle that repeats over generations. It helped my group to realize that while the clinic would provide health care needs, it should also provide activities in addition that would engage the community. What didn't work as well this week was going in without any questions prepared because sometimes there were awkward pauses where the interviewee didn't know what to say and we also didn't know what to say. However, this was a very helpful experience in getting to know the community.

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What I found particularly valuable this week was researching the information about the population that we were going to be interviewing. I think this was important because in order to make a connection with someone, it helps to know what the majority of them will be like. What I learned from this sessions were different websites that allow us to see the demographics about the population we were looking at and what conditions could impact their health so we could get an idea of potential issues that they may be concerned with. A lot of my team members ideas were excellent, especially the idea of finding out how many providers are available per person because this isn't something that I would have thought about, but is highly important in determining where health problems for the population may lay.

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What I found particular valuable was asking follow up questions about the answers that the interviewee gave. It allowed for more opportunities to not only have them expand and explain their answers, but it helped to generate a conversation in which the other person felt more comfortable. What didn't work as well was one person leading all the questions, our best conversations was one in which both of us conversed with the interviewee and both were able to make a connection with them. I learned that it's important to try to find something in common in order to create a connection with the interviewee and be able to talk to them about that. This helped not only create longer answers, but helped to make the interviewee more comfortable. One experience was with a girl that we interviewed that I was able to have a long conversation about because we found that we both lived in the same apartment complex and were able to share our common experiences with that.

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Another interview who's name we failed to get, but we were able to have a discussion on our mutual major, Public Health Science! We found that she is stressed 3-4 times a week, and manages it by watching television, working out, and secluding herself. Though she doesn't think this is healthy, she's working on developing better methods.

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This was one of our interviewees who's name we unfortunately failed to get. While interviewing him, we found out that he is "infinitely" stressed, but he likes to cook and work out to relieve his stress. We also found out that he's 31 years old, only came back to school 2 years ago to study wildlife ecology, and is currently engaged.

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I really valued the experience of this week's exercise; it was an eye opening experience because this exercise was one that I had assumed I would be able to hit all the marks in, but there were so many different aspects of interviewing someone that I had forgot when the time came. One aspect that I felt really bad about was not getting to know the interviewee's name. When we watched the humans of New York video, I was very impressed with the photographers ability to be able to get a story through dialogue and not just question and answer. I also liked how he was able to connect with them so well, and during the exercise I failed in that. However, a team experience that stood out was I was able to experience rejection while interviewing, and while I could understand why someone did not want to be interviewed, it still hurt that they said no to my face. I learned that it is very important to make a connection with the interviewee, and in doing so will better help the answers you are looking for.