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WHY IS UX RESEARCH AI-ETHICS?

MIXED METHODS•USER EXPERIENCE RESEARCHER

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Dawn E. Procopio

The only way to program ethics into code is to see how people USE it.

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-Dawn E. Procopio, UX Researcher/AI-Ethicist

Why

UXR PROCESS

Target Audiences
Stakeholders

STAKEHOLDER/ 
ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

Coordination with research scientists, marketing teams, designers, engineers and product managers to identify research questions and formalizing the shared goals and assumptions. These include: 

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  • KPIs/SMART Goals 

  • T-Shirt Sized Research Goals/Questions

  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) Interviews and Workshops

  • Stakeholder assumptions and testable hypotheses (may include hypothesized use cases.)

  • Evaluation for new or existing UX Metrics (ex: meeting, exceeding, not-met, unknown)

  • Target Market Demographics (if not specified in assumptions)

  • Commitment of resources (observation, design, participant compensation, tools, stimuli links, reporting collaborators etc.

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Pre or Post Environmental Scan/Non-Experimental Research: 

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  • Competitive Analysis

  • Market Research

  • Business, Social Science or Company Literature Reviews

  • Meta-analysis of Studies

  • Heuristic Reviews

  • Cognitive Walkthroughs

  • Past meeting minutes

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UX Research Analysis
UX Research

OBSERVATION & DATA ANALYSIS

UX Research
In a Meeting

Environmental Analysis 

Stakeholder Elicitation:

  • KPIs/SMART Goals/OKRs

  • Subject Matter Expert (SME) Interviews and Workshops

  • Target Market Demographics 

  • Commitment of resources 

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Background Research: ​​

  • Literature Review

  • Competitive Analysis

  • Market Research

  • Meta-analysis of Past Studies

  • Heuristic Reviews

  • Cognitive Walkthroughs

  • Past meeting minutes

Flow Chart
UX Research

Research Planning

Research Plan includes:​

  • Background Summary

  • Goals, Research Questions, Hypotheses, Assumptions

  • Methodology/Mixed methods specifications (Multivariate Usability Testing, Ethnography, Concept Testing, etc.)

  • Participant Screening Logic, Questions, Consent Forms

  • Timelines

  • Stimuli Creation and/or Tracking design

  • Discussion Guide Writing (Scenarios, Tasks, Questions)

  • Data Capture Design, Protocols (ex. Success/Struggle/Fail Criteria)

Analytics
Behavioral Analysis

Observation & Data Analysis

Dimensions follow the NNGroup nomenclature. 

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A. Qualitative (direct) vs. Quantitative (indirect); including: 

  • Environment

  • moderated

  • unmoderated

  • remote

  • Tools, ex:  

    • UserTesting.com

    • dScout

    • Qualtrics

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B. Attitudinal vs. Behavioral: 

  • Null Hypothesis Testing/Predictive Analytics

  • Grounded Theory Approach (GTA)

  • Video Analysis

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C. Scripted vs. Unscripted

ex: Semi-Structured Interviews, Ethnography, Contextual Inquiry, Usability Testing, etc.

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Mobile App Testing
Collaboration

Reporting & Collaboration

Report sections include the following for low to high fidelity prototyped solutions: 
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  • Executive summary​

  • Key findings

  • Hypothesis statuses: 

    • SUPPORTS​

    • NOT SUPPORTED

    • NEEDS RESEARCH

  • Storyboards

  • Customer Journey Maps

  • Personas or archetypes

  • Use Cases

  • Service Blueprinting

  • Highlight Reel Production

  • Design Workshops/SME Visioning 

  • Recommendations

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