Plot would like to invite you to join in a social experiment. We’re trying to see if we can create distributed user research as a part of our piece at Media Future Summit on 20 June. We’re not sure if it’s possible, but we’d like to have a go all the same.
HERE’S THE DEAL:
Find one person who is happy for you to ask them a few QUESTIONS. (We’ve got three questions for you to ask them.) Let them know their answers will be used at a conference , but their responses will be anonymous.
Try and pick someone outside of the people you know well (i.e.Not necessarily YOUR MUM or your boyfriend) someone who you think will show you something you don’t already know...
The questions:
1. How has what you read, watched or listened to CHANGED over the years?
2. Thinking about everything you’ve ever read, watched or listened to - if you had to suddenly leave the planet, what ONE THING would you take with you?
3. When are you BORED?
Write down or tape all of their RESPONSE, including er’s and um’s and pauses. As they answer, don’t comment on what they say, but try and draw more detail from them. Watch them and notice what they do, and how they appear to you - anxious, thoughful, enthusiastic etc. Make a note of this too.
Oh, and Take a blurry photo of them. (Show them it’s blurry)
Then, send (email us) your recordings or notes to experiments@plotlondon.net, by the 19th June.
We will collate all of the pieces sent in, and for all of the people who send something in we’ll send you a copy of the whole thing - a fresh new piece of user research around media for you to think with!
We’ll use what you send us as material for our talk, and credit you all of course. We’ll be doing some of these ourselves as well. We promise not to go off and write a book based on your responses! Ready? Make sense? Okay, LETS GO!
p.s. and apologies to our ethnographer/anthropologist friends whom we do respect and admire. We know this is not how you would do it. It’s just an experiement.
pps you need to get one of these people in to help you, they’re worth every penny in our book.
Here's a link for downloading this invitation
Download medfutex.pdf
And send it to us here.
