Last Emotisurvey Participant Completed!

Participant number 8

We've just recorded the final emotisurvey participant in Malvern.. Student Dom and I now have a lengthy set of video and audio analysis [as well as other considerations] to undergo while bearing in mind further specific requirements set by the Route to the Hills steering group..

So to take this opportunity to say a big "thanks" again to all those people who kindly gave up their time and energies to help us build up a picture of how various participants "saw" and thought of our definitive route through the town. We've truly got a diverse view of the town now with inputs from the disabilities perspective, children's perspective, transition/sustainability as well as various residents.

We've still much work to do but the 'recording' element of the project is now complete. Assuming all is well then we're hoping to have a working version of the consultancy interactive at the end of Jan 2012.

Emotisurvey User Interface Design Ideas

We're soon to record the last emotisurvey participant and we're now embarking on arriving at the best layout for an interactive interface that links our findings with the various audiences who will need to look these over. We're preparing ideas based on our last projects and the bespoke requirements of this latest project. 

The very early ideas will be put to the Route to the Hills steering group in an upcoming meeting to gain their feedback on which we'll then evolve a bespoke interactive solution. It's an exciting time with some further challenges ahead in tying together our recorded data in such a way that it can be easily accessed and digested by a wide audience including Route to the Hills project staff and Malvern Hills District Council Landscape Architects.

7x Participants Surveyed to Date

 

Participant Peter

We're well underway with surveying the various participants to date and have heard some really interesting perspectives on the same route from people of all different perspectives and backgrounds. In particular the perspectives we've had to date have included: Malvern's history/architectural/arboreal history, effectiveness of the existing public realm from senior MHDC staff's perspective, the perspective bearing in mind people with various disabilities and a child's perspective on the route when walking with a parent. All very, very different and all picked-up and highlighted a wide range of unforseen aspects of the same walk. Genuinely fascinating to hear and many, many thanks again to those who have given their time to help us.

Thanks again
Thanks again to Manda Graham RTTH Project Manager for her continued patience and to University of Worcester design student Dom Gambetta who is presently starting to look at possible methods of putting these experiences across to the RTTH project steering group/Malvern Hills DC.

Emotisurvey in the press!

We've been covered recently by various press including [BBC Hereford and Worcester], [The Malvern Gazette] and the [University of Worcester].

Emotisurvey Participants Underway..

A participant from Transition Malvern en route.

 We'll be surveying a range of participants over the next few weeks. To date we've had perspectives given from local Malvern Hills Council Economic Development staff, Malvern residents, representatives of Transition Malvern [looking at the sustainability angle] and also historical and architectural. It's been fascinating to hear all of the different perspectives already and we're only part way through working with participants. 

In addition we'd like to welcome Digital Arts student Dom Gambetta to the team. Dom's undertaking a negociated study at the University and helping to further getting the eventual outputs into an interactive interface that can be used by the Route to the Hills Project.

In addition, to quickly thank Malvern Hills Council staff for all the help they've already been in sourcing the various participants. Special thanks go to Manda Graham - Route to the Hills Project Co-ordinator for putting up with all the challenges to date and being flexible with us..

Emotisurvey Test Walk Success

We've now undertaken the first test walk in Malvern which was a really useful exercise to undertake.. The results of which will now be analysed as well as tweeks made to the documents used so that they're as user-friendly as possible for formal participants later Sept 2011/early Oct 2011.

Defining the Brief

We're presently going through a scoping exercise to ascertain what the brief for the survey is. This will involve feed-in from a range of people and organisations local to Malvern. The image [below] shows the broad corridor between Gt. Malvern Station and St Ann's Well that we'll be focussing on.

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emotisurvey Malvern's potential route area

emotisurvey | Malvern - Up and Running

This will be the project website for the emotisurvey of Malvern that we'll be carrying-out. The aim of the survey will be to support the Route to the Hills project already ongoing in the town by supplying a broad survey of participants' reactions to public realm space in the town.

The project will involve a collaboration of various identities including the Route to the Hills project and the University of Worcester.