I've been circulating (e-)questionnaires through email to find out what real people really think about the needs for ICT to support one's personal decision making. It has been 2 weeks now, and I only managed to receive back 24 responses. I was hoping for some kind of domino effects to happen, that is by forwarding the questionnaires to some of my close friends and also my sisters, and they will spread the word by forwarding to many more people in their mailing list. But i guess, I will just have to give it some more time before I can call it off and start working on the analysis part.Talked to my supervisor the other day, about the questions that i include in the survey. She said they were OK, but probably some of the words i used were bit too BIG for laymen. Yea, i think so too...hee.
And after much thoughts, my supervisor popped something out: "Maybe we don't need to know, if there's a need or not for what we are doing? Of course nobody will be that certain to say yes".
She gave me some analogies like: "Do you think you need a computer before you actually know about the existence of computer? No, right? But having known about the technology now, you some how see the benefits that you can get from it, thus make you need/want to have the computer in your life".
...and another one, which was something like: "Why do you think the product magazines, made all the efforts to come out with great reviews and comparisons of several different products, just to give some idea for potential buyers to consider before actually buying one. So, don't you think, by having our prototype would ease the same process for buyers?"
And my reaction was something like: "Dang...why you always know what to say?".
