Week 3: Work Session

09/14/2016

Outline

* Talked about Nurie & Eunjung’s findings in different scenarios

* Measured five major scenarios

* Talked with Professor Lee and got advices

* Presented our progress so far to everyone

* Reviewed question setting

Online research

Nurie & Eunjung collected relevant investigations and data on the internet, and they found something interesting:

• The military is a kind of extreme situation. 54% of soldiers experience insomnia, and even some have psychological problems like PTSD and depression.
• For college students, it is necessary to make each person aware of sleep needs.
• It would be better for parents to give personalized sleep cycles for each child instead of making all children share the same schedule.
• 53% of young children in China share a bed.
• For people who may choose to live in a hostel, the concerns for safety influences their sleeping quality a lot.

Feedback and advice from Austin and classmates

• Routines are strictly regulated in the military and school dormitory.
• Use open-ended questions in interviews. Talk to people in different settings
• Need IRB protocol
• For roommates situation, problems still need to be solved as soon as possible
• To solve the routine problems, it could be a particular way of socialization.

Discussion and measurement of five scenarios

We clarified the major five scenarios we may be interested in measured them according to different dimensions. And got some distinguished features about every scenario:

• Shared house — It could be the new “family” pattern.
• The military — There are a lot of extreme situations, such as extreme environment, irregular work shifts, with more people living in the same rooms without a choice.
• School dorm — It may be the first time a young people live with others in the same room. Meanwhile, there are dorm rules which would limit their daily routines. And roommates may not the same schedule.
• Siblings — It is the only family relationship among these five, so they may have the closest bounding. And there is a considerable force under this circumstance — parents’ dictation.
• Hostels & Airbnb — A short-term relationship between roommates. People who live in Airbnb concern the safety a lot while having difficulties to communicate with others since they may have a different schedule every day.

The military scenario is too unusual and hard to find interviewees. For the other four, we value all of them to some extent. Thus, for the next meeting we are going to discuss interview outcomes, choose to dig in on one particular scenario and establish personas.