Interview
Tom Tits 20 sept 2014
The first
interview I had was with a man I his 40:s and his two girls at the age of 8-12.
Before we started recording we explained the purpose and what we would use it
for. He was fine with it and we started the interview.
Är det er första gång
som ni är här på Tom Tits?
Det är vår andra gång.
Aha okej, varför
kommer ni hit? Var är det som lockar?
Jaaa.. ja det känns vettigare än bus-och lekland till exempel. Det är väl, det känns lite mer lärorikt
tänkte jag.
Så det finns ändå som
en baktanke med att det ska lära sig något, att få med sig något eller att få
med sig något intresse?
Jaa något intresse framförallt, så att de blir lite nyfiken
på saker. Jag tror inte att det är så att man man ska förse dem med massa
kunskap.
Okej, är det
någonting som du har kännt nu när ni gått omkring här att det är något som du
hade velat kunna förklara men som du kanske inte har kunnat för att det inte
har funnits information, eller om dina barn har frågat om som du inte riktigt
visste hur du skulle förklara riktigt?
Dom grejerna som jag inte kan förklara är dom grejerna som
jag inte fattar själv alltså där är meningen är hur det ska gå till. Förstår
jag så mycket brukar jag kunna förklara vad som händer själv.
Har du använt Tom
Tits egna app någonting som finns här?
Nej alltså.. (plockar fram en mobiltelefon, icke smart
Phone) det fungerar inte.
Haha jaa då blir det
ju svårt, men det är ju bra då får vi in den målgruppen också. Dom har en app
här istället för att ha så många skyltar, hur känner du för sånt?
Skulle du hellre ha
det på plats?
Jaa alltså lite mer information om en del av dem där
grejerna.
Jaa det jag tror att
det var allt, tack så mycket för att du ville vara med.
Summarize of interview:
I did two
more interviews but this one especially gave a lot of good material for our
project. He explained that he actually had though about why he went there with
his kids. This visit would actually give
his children something rather just going to a “play house”. And it was the same for the others I interviewed;
even though it wasn’t the knowledge itself that was the most important the
experience might start an interest. To challenge kids minds and make them think
a bit further.
When I
asked about if they had any difficulties explaining the experiments at a kids
level most of them had no problem as long as they understood it themselves. But
they all agreed on that Tom Tits could be better at giving information. None of
them I had used the app. One had tried but it didn’t contain just the one
experiment he had questions about and one, even though he knew about it,
didn’t download it. And as it says in the interview, one didn’t have a smart
Phone.
As a
conclusion of my interviews they all agreed on that it was important for the
kids to get inspired from the visit and it should be easier too get information
and explanations for all. Not only the ones with smart phones.
State-of
–the- art analysis – website
I did an
analysis on To Tit´s website. The website contains almost everything about Tom
Tits. Where you can eat, where you can park your car and so on. But the most
relevant part of the website for our project it’s a very good one where you can
read about the experiments on the different floors. So that when you go there know what to expect
before you go there. It doesn’t show all the experiments but most of them and
they have a short text attached that tell the most important part of it.
But I think
its very good of them to show what they offer so that parents and other people
with children can get an idea of what to expect and see if it is something for
them.
So this
website is more for those who think one step ahead or haven’t bin there before.
Tom Tits website
aims for tourist, or first-time visitors and on that note the website works
very well. But for those who I interviewed this website was not relevant to use
for other than to see what time it opens and other basic info.
During our
study we focused on when you are already there and how to get information and
explanations. So I tried to visit the website throw my phone, and I am sorry to
say that it weren’t as good then. It didn’t adapt to my screen so it was hard
to reed and navigate. So if I wanted to know something about an experiment I
would rather use their app. But as we
could see form our interviews the app that struggles on its own to get users. Using the website doesn’t solve any problems
the app have; it excludes the visitors who don’t have a smart phone.
So over all its a good website so visit before you go to the museum, but won´t be so helpful during your visit.
