050 | Experience Sampling Method |
Behaviors, interactions, thoughts, or feelings self-reported in real time when signaled
- Experience sampling requires participants to document something specific when signaled by a device alarm.
- Before smartphones, participants were signaled by pagers, hence the common nickname of “beeper study.”
- Behaviors, interactions, thoughts, or feelings are guided by clear instructions and entered into a pre-established form, often with photos in a diary or journal.
- Technology allows for documenting and sending photos, text, or audio entries through smartphones.
- The method is a form of design ethnography, collecting strategic samples of life in place of in-person immersion by researchers.
- Samples can give the designer a comprehensive picture across time or individuals for any particular design study.
- The method is useful in exploratory and generative phases of design research.
See alsoDesign Ethnography • Diary Studies • Photo Studies
The “Mappiness” project uses experience sampling to invite respondents to indicate their current feelings and situation when paged, mapping how the environment affects people’s happiness.
Courtesy of www.mappiness.org.uk
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