Value Sketch
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Method Overview
Value Sketch is a technique of sketching that helps designers and practitioners to gain insight into the different kinds of values participants assign to the variable under study. Here participants are provided with a material and asked to sketch out a product or scenario. Next, the researchers or designers conduct a systematic qualitative analysis of the sketches to foreground the values that the participants expressed through them.
Framework of ethics used:
pragmatist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Materials: Paper, pencil, any other material required that supports the sketching activity.
Participants: Participants can participate individually or in groups.
Steps:
- Determine the scenario of the study
- Introduce the participants to the scenario of the study and provide them with sketching materials
- Facilitate the sketching session
- Collect necessary data like demographics and other data points that will support the analysis of the sketches.
Further Reading
Citation
Woelfer, J. P., Iverson, A., Hendry, D. G., Friedman, B., & Gill, B. T. (2011, May). Improving the safety of homeless young people with mobile phones: Values, form and function. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1707-1716).
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