We conducted the participant test outing in London's West-End/ Soho area, giving the participant a map of the area and highlighting 5 key spaces she had to find her way to from the starting point at Cambridge Circus.
We also gave her a camera, a very basic pen-voice-recorder and a notepad.
The key spaces were:
Denmark Street (commercial)
Tottenham Court Road Station, South-West exit (transport interchange)
Soho Square (residential and green)
Frith Street (residential and commercial)
We quickly noticed that to manage the route with the mapa, the camera, the voice-pen and take notes was asking too much, so we walked with the participant and asked questions and took notes ourselves while she was feeding back.
It was hard to get her to focus on small scale details, but as she got the idea of the sorts of questions we were asking, about why she felt how she felt about the different spaces, she started to give more specific feedback.
We need to develop some very specific questions and tasks to get the participants to feed-back observations that will be most informative for this project.
At the end of the oouting, we sat in a cafe and the participant drew a map of where she'd been, without looking at the one we'd given her. She then noted comments on the map about her impressions, also noting a score of between 1(low) and 10(high) for her overall impressions of each of the sites she observed; ie are they positive or negative, 'Do' or 'Don't' spaces.
A scan is posted above.
Here is a scan of the second half of the visit notes...
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