Blog 8

Research Question: How does the interviewee's (B) reluctance and brief answers impact the research results?

Based on the responses from the interviewee, it seems that he was either nervous or lacked motivation. Certain responses seemed like it could've contained more information but was played off with a joke or short answer.


Evidence: 

Example A:

Ch        I wanted to talk a little, you  talk about your self as a hardware expert, you said software novice, although I bullied you into being competent, what software do you know how to use?
B          you know, what everyone else knows how to use, word, frontpage, powerpoint, excell, spreadsheet things
Ch        so it's interesting, games aren't really considered software are they?
B          they are -
Ch        so you know lots of software
B          yeah, but it's just games (laughing)

The interviewee knew what he was talking about but then the responses were a lot shorter. Based on the responses, initially the responses were decent. The interviewer would ask a question and the interviewee would just respond with one word or a small response. He wouldn't really elaborate on it. The interviewee knew what he was talking about but didn't seem interested in really talking about it. It seems like he was quite modest and often laughed after a brief response. Based on the laughter at the end, it seems that the person had a more nervous laugh. From experience, normally a chuckle would indicate some sort of uneasiness.


Example B:

Ch  - so what's another thing - so playing those games when you were a little kid set you up to be able to disentangle that DOS system more easily than your stepfather, so what were you doing?
B          like I was navigating through menus
Ch        you got used to trial and error
B          I wasn't being graded - there's no - all right man, let's pass this class you've got to
Ch        so you're completely comfortable with messing it up and starting over.
B          Oh yeah

The interview was a little different from the generic types of interviews. Normally the interviewer just asks a question and the person being interviewed just formally responds. For this one it seems that the interviewee has little interest in answering the questions. In these lines, the interviewer asks a significant amount of questions but the interviewee hardly elaborates. The interviewer seems to ask a good amount of questions and the interviewee just briefly answers sounding reluctant.