Thnx for the initial answers. Some background. @ Mark young: The persons who have to use the interface are illegal persons (Convicts) who wil be send back to their homeland because committing a crime. Most of these persons came illegal to our country. Normaly before sending them back, they wil have an intake, to give them some knowledge of their competences and information how for example they can get a new job or a income in their homeland. This now done in personal conversation. Problem with this is that the person who wil be send back most of the time, won't corperate and interact. They simple won't interact with a guard. This is why it's very difficult to do these intakes. Most of these illegal persons will interact with eachother. With cames from cultures they come from. By creating a intermediar (computer) between the guards and the convicts. We hope we see some interaction and hopely also a direct interaction between guards and convicts. For this we wanna use computer system with a coach to help a convict fill in a intake on their own along some other things. This is done by small tests a interactive coach and group interaction with other convicts. We already have such a system for dutch criminals in testing and that seems to work quite good. But those perons are dutch and most them can read and write.
The foreign conficts can't. Some can, but only in their language. And a few in english. That why my idea is to create a (non textual) interface. I hope this makes it al more clearer. Motivation of use. Well, they have to. No natural motivation. We want to encourage it by giving some kudo's and priviledges if they at least try. Why no qualitive research. These persons are criminals. The only people who are suited to do some sort of research are guards and most of them are not good interviewers. A have seen the stats, place of origin, cultural different and knowledge of devices (radio's, celphones, tv's etc) For now that al i have. @Katie Albers Thanx for making my problem much clearer. i included new info to explain how this interface will be used. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39252 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
