PRP: Artefact#1_Interview

For my first Artefact I am going to contact a number of creative companies based in Nottingham. The intention being to arrange an interview and hopefully visit their office(s).

Aim:

The main aim of this artefact is to find examples of where online social platforms have been encouraged and implimented in varying ways and with varying success. From this, I hope to determine what methods are most successful, in what settings and why.
Also, through visiting creative companies' offices I will to observe office layouts and question reasoning behind design decisions. I hope this provide evidence on how influencial a work setting can be on a groups creative performance.

Method:

Initially I will contact people from range of positions within the companies via email and/or snail mail-dependant on suitability to the individual company. This will introduce myself, state my research topic, and suggest to the recipient that I will call them regarding my research topic in the following week.

During the follow-up phone call I will discuss their company with relation to my research project and ask if they are willing for me to visit and perform my interview.

This may seem a drawn out process but I feel this will be a more successful strategy as the ownus will be on me to make contact both times and will illiminate waiting for responses.

Evidence of the Interview will take the form of a voice recording. I have chosen a voice recording over video as it is less intrusive, potentially allowing for a higher levels and quality of participation from the interviewee.

Prediction:

From this Artefact I hope to find that from my partipants experience, higher levels of innovation and creativity can be gained from the implementation and encouraged use of online social platforms.