WELCOME Briefing Meeting for Participants

1. WELCOMEBriefing Meeting for Participants

2. Video Study • Researchers: • Helen Roby and Rebecca Whiting at the Open University

3. Getting started • Your kit • Record and narrate ‘a week in your life’ • 7 day week can start on any day • Aiming to capture different times of day, locations and roles in your physical and digital worlds

4. Focus on roles • Different roles: • Where you live, family, university studies, any paid work, leisure, community, voluntary • Physical and digital settings e.g. online communities • How you manage these: • Physically e.g. through what you wear or your location • Digitally e.g. through using technology such as mobile phone, computer, netbook, iPad etc • Mundane, well-established routine, new or interesting

5. Focus on technology • How you use different forms of technology in your different roles e.g. • Communications • Study • Leisure • Sport

6. Focus on switching • Transitions between different roles • Physically • Through use of technology • Situations when it is difficult to switch between these different roles • E.g. what you might think of as ‘switching off’ once you’ve finished doing the work you planned to do that day or when you are doing one thing but thinking about another • Your commentary on these transitions • Explain what you are doing and your thoughts, particularly what role(s) you are switching – or trying to switch – between

7. What to record • We are most interested in seeing • what you do as it happens • your interaction with different technologies • Within these general themes it’s up to you to • record what you like • say what you like • record as much as you like, in long or short takes • simply record what is happening in front of you • Feel free to be creative, there’s no one ‘right’ way, it should be interesting and fun not a chore

8. Example 1: Switching roles - resuming work after dinner at home

9. Example 2: Transition in the physical world – the walk to work

10. Example 3: Work v Life – blurring the boundaries

11. What not to record • Anything of a confidential, sensitive or highly personal nature including such material at your place of work • Children • Other people unless in a public place where they might reasonably expect to be observed • In shopping centres or areas with high security status • Please don’t film whilst driving / cycling etc

12. To summarise • Please film ‘as it happens’ • Transitions between roles, using digital technologies and in the real world • Situations when it is difficult to switch between roles • Include your commentary on these

13. If you need help or more information • Participant FAQ on the website • Participant section with copies of documents • Email DBS-Project@open.ac.uk

14. At the end of the week • Keep a copy of your data on your computer • Arrange return of camcorder + data • Quick chat with me • Arrange interview with Petros • Explore research platform

15. Interview Study • Researchers: • Gillian Symon and Petros Chamakiotis at Royal Holloway, University of London

16. Timing and setting • Interviews will be approximately two weeks after you have completed the video study • Not too long so as you forget what happened • Gives us time to review the videos and to select items for discussion during the interviews • We will be asking you too to review your videos prior to the interview • Face-to-Face at a mutually convenient time and place for approx 1 hour • Some interviews may be conducted remotely (e.g. phone, Skype), if necessary

17. Format • Information sheet will be provided in advance • Specific occasions of switching recorded in the video diaries will be explored and related to wider life experiences • You’ll be encouraged to share stories about events identified in your videos • We will be reviewing selected excerpts of your videos during the interview to stimulate discussion

18. Thank youAny questions?