Unit 6: Saltaire Research

From this research l learnt that not everyone is compliant to give up their time to answer a few questions. Mostly because they are too busy or simply do not want to do it. However most did agree to fill in the questionnaire either carefully or as quickly as possible. I found myself selectively picking potential people who l think would take the questionnaire seriously. People like teachers, members of staff, ones that would treat the questionnaire as actual course work. Though l think we managed to get at least one of every age group specified on the questionnaire though it was primarily 17-20 year olds. Because we asked allot of students to fill out the forms.
In the way of team organisation we simply split into pairs each with some of the questionnaire sheets and went to get them filled in. I got most of mine from the college resource centre. Where l managed to get a few 30+ age questionnaires filled.
For the questionnaire itself we used Alex J's template.l It didn't really matter who's we used since we all had similar questions. So we just added necessary ones to Alex's template and used that. Though when we were out getting them filled in. We started to notice numerous mistakes such as repeated questions and questions not everyone will understand. From this l have learnt to pick questions carefully and make them understandable by everyone or provide sufficient explanation.
As for the outcome of the results it was to be honest as expected mostly 17-20, Roberts Park being the most popular location. We have also acquired allot of useless information with these questionnaires we cant actually use.

Overall l think we could have done allot better with the quality of information gathered but what we have will do. Things that could be improved would be only use multiple choice questions. We had questions where the applicant could write their own opinion in their own words. Not many were willing to properly fill this out or just put a silly answer. To effectively gather and record information in a spreadsheet you need to have multiple choice questions. You can not record opinions into a spreadsheet as a result we scrapped these answers entirely.
For this project based on the research l don't really want to base our project on Roberts Park since there aren't many interesting buildings there save for the cafe and statue. I would much rather make the Salts building in a futuristic theme. Not sci-fi kind off future more like how l imagine Saltaire will be 100 years from now. Technology will have advanced but at a realistic and believable level.