An excerpt from our forthcoming Remote Research book, out soon by Rosenfeld Media!
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The soul of remote research is that it lets you conduct what we call Time-Aware Research.
By now UX researchers are familiar with the importance of understanding the usage context of an interface–the physical environment where people are normally using an interface. Remote research [...]
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Time-Aware Research
Escape The Lab – Aug. 26
Want to learn remote research? Bolt | Peters is hosting a one-day workshop on August 26th, and you’re invited. Give us a day and we can teach you all the rocket surgery you need to conduct qualitative studies the real-time, native environment way.
Date: Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Time: 9am – 4:30pm. Sign-in starts at 8:30am, drinks [...]
Announcing Remote Research: The Book
We’re proud to announce our forthcoming book Remote Research, which will be published by Rosenfeld Media in 2009! It’s a book for everyone who’s interested in learning why, when, and how to design and conduct remote user research studies themselves.
From the book publisher’s website:
Remote user research describes any research method that allows you to observe, [...]
Build Your Own (Cheap) Moderated Testing Setup
While there are plenty of tools floating around to help you conduct one-on-one moderated interviews, if you’re just getting started with remote research, you may not want to invest in a ton of expensive software or subscription-based web services right off the bat. So let us show you a few handy ways to use more [...]
Live Recruiting for Remote Research
In an article for Boxes and Arrows, Paul Nuschke lists five phases of a usability study:
Step 1: Sales & Kickoff
Step 2: Recruitment
Step 3: Preparation
Step 4: Testing
Step 5: Analysis & Reporting
This post is about that second step, where you’re recruiting users to participate in your study. Traditionally this has been done one of two ways: either [...]
The Two Basic Types of Remote Testing
In general, remote user research simply describes any research where the moderator and the research participants are physically separated. However, there are lots of different varieties of remote user research, and each has its own strengths, weaknesses, and circumstances in which they’re most effective. Some types allow you to test many people at once, while [...]