OurStories+Interviews

toc **OurStories** **User Interviews** by **Payam Azadi** (azadi@umd.edu), **Brandon Britto** (britto.brandon@gmail.com), **Dan Sonthichartkul** (dsonthic@umd.edu), **Kevin Heiting** (kheiting@terpmail.umd.edu)

Transcripts of all user interviews conducted for user analysis phase of OurStories.
 * Key: A= Brandon, B= Dan, C= Kevin, D= Payam

=A Interviews=
 * **22 year old male, senior college student, Animal Science Major, African American**
 * Quiet, chill guy, likes video games and tv, and is always on Facebook
 * No, wouldn't like to have to create an account. Doesn't think it would be something he would be too involved with. Also wouldn't like to give an email or phone number but would give some sort of screen name.
 * 1) Would give a city so people could know the area of what he was talking about.
 * 2) Would want to search for stories most of the time, but would like random stories that were sort of related to what his searches were some of the time.
 * 3) Would send a text in before he called, but just having the feature available would be cool to have.
 * 4) Would like to hear technology stories, or like general random information. (would like to learn something new from the stories) He would write about tech stuff and social interaction between people he met that day.
 * 5) Yes would like to be able to leave comments, but maybe limited to a certain demographic of people, or just something to limit the amount to avoid trolls and spam.
 * 6) A bunch of free time, and big events. Also if he read a story that applied to himself or his personal experiences.
 * 7) If it were more personal it would keep him involved. Also if he wasn't in the story personally, he probably wouldn't keep up with it too much. But if there was a big event going on he would read stories about the event.


 * **18 year old female, freshman college student, Arabic studies, Hispanic (Latin America)**
 * Very outgoing, likes learning about cultures. Wants to work for the UN, UNICEF, peace corps etc, so her answers may be biased in our favor.
 * 1) Would give a name and an email address. And she would like to connect to facebook etc through the website.
 * 2) Would give geographical information. Would give up to the state but no more than that.
 * 3) Would want to seach for stories, but would use the random story feature.
 * 4) Would text a story in, but wouldn't use the voice in feature.
 * 5) Would read/write about war, poverty, technology.
 * 6) Would like to have the comments section.
 * 7) To be able to connect and reach others and be able to relate to them.
 * 8) Just being able to connect to others around the world and read inspirational stories from others.

=B Interviews=
 * **49 year old female, works from home**
 * 1) Yes, I'd like to create an account. I don't have facebook account. email but not phone number.
 * 2) Yes
 * 3) I want to search for stories I want to read.
 * 4) No. It's not convenient.
 * 5) Children's stories, mysterious stories, something interesting.
 * 6) Yes to both parts.
 * 7) Good feedback or many people read my stories
 * 8) quality and amount of stories to read.


 * **25 year old female graduate student**
 * No, I don't want to create an account or give my phone number. If it's just an email address or facebook, then it's ok.
 * 1) Yes, if it's just city.
 * 2) It would be nice if the site put on any interesting stories so I don't have to search for it.
 * 3) Maybe sms or email, but I don't think I'll take my time writing somthing long on my cell phone.
 * 4) Fashion, insperation, personal experience about something interesting.
 * 5) Yes, I'd like to comment on other's people stories. I also like to see people's comment on my stories.
 * 6) When something new or something strange happen in my everyday life. I don't think I'll read any stories when I'm online on facebook.
 * 7) Good and exciting stories, nice community, popularity


 * **22 year old male undergraduate, Business major**
 * 1) Yes to all
 * 2) Yes
 * 3) Both
 * 4) Facebook. Like I post something on the site or on facebook and they're automatically synconized
 * 5) sports, girls, news, business analysis, anything
 * 6) Yes why not
 * 7) I'd rather read than write.
 * 8) interesting story,the site is up to date, cool reader interface.

=C Interviews=
 * **45 year old female, self employed**
 * 1) I would not create an account, or use face book, or give any other identifying information.
 * 2) I would feel comfortable giving geographic information.
 * 3) I would want to search for stories, and search by category
 * 4) I would use a phone to submit and retrieve a story by phone call, but would hate to use text for writing or reading on the phone itself.
 * 5) I would likely never write a story, and would read stories that catch my eye as interesting.
 * 6) I would leave feedback and accept feedback to my stories.
 * 7) I would be likely to write if there was a reward system of some kind.
 * 8) I would return to the site if valuable stories are found each time I visit. I would stay on the site if I find a topic I enjoyed and want to read more stories like that genre.


 * **21 year old male, undergraduate Computer Science major**
 * 1) I would create an account with an email address only, I would not use face book compatibility.
 * 2) I would give geographic location as precise as my city.
 * 3) I would want to search and have random stories be provided to me automatically through streamed topics.
 * 4) I would not want to listen to stories or tell stories over the phone,
 * 5) I would not write stories, but I would likely read war/conflict-zone stories. I would also be interested in stories involving economic and social change in the developing world.
 * 6) I would leave feedback, but would not want feedback into my own submissions.
 * 7) I would not be enticed to write, but could be enticed to write feedback to other submissions and even provide a counter-perspective to a current submission.
 * 8) I would need to have a clear understandable interface with the ability to navigate stories (randomly or by category) in an easy and effective way to find interesting stories.


 * **21 year old male, undergraduate Computer Science major**
 * 1) If there is an option to post stories as an anonymous user even while i am registered then yes I would create an account. I would only give an email and connect with facebook. No phone number.
 * 2) Yes. But no exact address.
 * 3) Definitely.
 * 4) Either by typing in the story or by uploading a pre-recorded narration.
 * 5) Anything and everything except perverse stories of course.
 * 6) Perhaps make it optional on a per-story basis: youtube method
 * 7) Definitely. Comments on anything are always a welcome thing.
 * 8) Other users. If everyone has a story to tell then I have a story to tell. Plus extensive control over who gets to see any story I enter.
 * 9) Use a facebook app to track stories? (probably based on the stories you read and can relate to in some way?)
 * 10) If it stays free and user friendly.

=D Interviews=