Interview with Terry Thorpe
Environment
A 3 bedroom apartment with a dedicated entrance from the street outside. Living room kitchen combined in an open plan room. Master bedroom has en-suite bathroom. One other bathroom with shower and bath.
Inhabitants
1 British Man, 1 Polish girl, 1 British girl
Interview with Terry Thorpe
Justyna: Hello my name is Justyna Prokop. I will be interview today my landlord Terry Thorpe. This project is about Home Messaging system, so what I have to do is finding out how communications happend between the people in this house. Now I'm going to interview my landlord.
Justyna: I have in front of me questionnaires, so now I'm gonna ask you some questions. The first question is : Are you currently sharing an accommodation with another person/other people?
Terry: Yes
Justyna: yes ok, Numbers of people sharing the accommodation? Is males or females?
Terry: Its males and females
Justyna: aa ok, Who do you currently share your accommodation with? Is family, friends, fellow students or other?
Terry: Its myself and friends
Justyna: What are the ages of the people currently sharing your accommodation? Is 11-18, 19-25, 25+
Terry: Its two categorize there 19-25 and 25+
Justyna: ok Thanks, the next question is Do you ever share any type of information/communicate with your fellow accommodators, if yes how often? Is daily, weekly, monthly, never?
Terry: Is daily basis
Justyna: What methods do you use to communicate by and display your information/messages? Is White/black board, Pin board, Post-its, Calendar, Other
Terry: no white/black board, what else was there??
Justyna: Pin board, Post-its
Terry: No pin board, Yes is post-its, I uses quite a lot
What else was there?
Justyna: Calendar? And any other?
Terry: No calender
Terry: ok so the Post-its is use quite a lot in fact is the measure method of communication in a household when people around, exception to that if the people not around-like they traveling or they away for couple of days, so we can use sms texting, so thats the exception, but the main method of communication is Post-its (other than verbal communication, like talking to each other). If you don’t want to disturb someone we are using a Post-its for example if I woke up in the morning and I don’t want to wake up anyone, then I write Post-its notes and you stick on the fridge or door, so thats how we mainly do it.
Justyna: Ok thanks for really useful information and the last question is: What type of information do you display? Messages, reminders, requests, any other information?
Terry: is messages, reminders, and request quite a lot, so for example we have a system, that everybody have to clean once a week, like the bean need to be taking out or the floor needs to be moping and the kitchen needs to be clean etc. So we writing down on the Post-its notes and we are sticking on the door or fridge if we are not around. If someone call to someone and this person is not around, so I'm leaving a Post-its notes on this person door. Whats the other thing? Reminders?
Justyna: Yes reminders
Terry: again the same thing if someone forgot clean the kitchen, so I'm writing on the Post-its notes. Upssss sorry about that (he dropped something). Oh yeah I remember one thing someone (the girl) left the kitchen in such a mess, that was salt all over the table, so actually I wrote the message on the table with salt “is so dirty, please clean”...
Justyna: Thanks so much for this kind of information. We gonna use this information for our project. Do you find this communication method satisfactory?
Terry: Yes, but I will improve something better, because the weakness of post it notes is that it is possible for the messages, reminders etc may not get through. The Post it may fall off the door or other surface it was stuck to or the person may not see it. Also sometimes people’s handwriting is not clear. Usually is pretty good way of communication, especially here in this small flat and is only three of us, so its works pretty well. If you leaving with more than 5 people I'm thinking you need other method of communication, because propobely might not working. What I want to say about sms-texting is fantastic method, because nowadays everybody have mobile phones and everybody is using mobile phones.
Justyna: I asked this kind of questions, because we want to see there is any other way to do it the communication system better. How we can improve the system could be done better.
Terry: I will be so interesting what you finding are..
Justyna: Aaa ok I will let you know in the end of my project, so that will be around 3 weeks time. {laughing}
Thanks you very much for your interview
Terry: my pleasure, good luck
Justyna: thanks
