Focus group Transcript

Focus group with 4 university students

Environment
rented house with 4 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living room

Conversation content

Hayat: Hello

A: Hi

Hayat: We are gonna ask you some questions about we are doing our home messaging so we need to find out if we leaving the problem what information do you show. So could you tell me are you all living together?

A: Yah

Hayat: So you are four living together. Amm.. what type of ..amm.. when you are at home what type of amm.. so you say something you’ll like when you for example if you’re cooking or if you’re like one of them are do you communicate arrr... for example any type of communication

All: Umm..Mobile

Hayat: mobile?

B: Yeh.. text messaging

Hayat: Text messaging…

Justina: What about for example whiteboard or post-it or something. What kind of information there? To message someone, just leave something?

C: Like the…

Justina: You know there maybe something

C: Like the I have to pay some bills and one of my friends they can do it. Or some messages has wrote they received calls, so some people have called you inviting so and so interview or what ever. I might leave out those kinds of messages on the fridge so that they can come and directly see that.

Hayat: So why do you prefer on the fridge like why do you..

Satyam: What kind of information do you put on there?

C: Ahh.. reminder

A: Like text messages, just information like it should be intimated.

C: Then the some kind of bill statement of the bill, payment of the bill.

Hayat: Oh..That was today yah.. end of the month so you need to pay.

B: Yah

Hayat: Ah..okay. Amm… Apart from that, do you use any other messaging like apart from the bill, the cooking, what ‘bout the cleaning stuff

C: Oh yeh

Hayat: Do you have a timetable, how do you know each other like..

C: Weekly

Hayat: Oh weekly… so how do you…

C: We both will be handling the kitchen and they both will handle the bathroom, cleaning the computer and other things of that.

Justina: Is that like you have everything on Saturdays or..?

C: Yah..Sunday

Justina: Sunday

Hayat: Do you work at all?

C: Yes

Hayat: But how if you got a nightsuite for example how do you manage to for example to clean it or to communicate each other?

C: Yeh that’s the reason we put messages on the fridge like when we got to home we still hungry then I got to open the fridge and then I can find the reminder.

Satyam: Next time if you’re hungry I can give you a call.

All:(laughing)

Satyam: How long have you been living together now?

A: Four months

Satyam: Do you have problems with each other?

B: No

C: If we have any problems we’ll discuss

Hayat: How do you discuss together?

C: We’ll sit together and…

A: We’ll argue until … we solve our problems.

Justina: Are you guys friends? Or family maybe?

All: Friends

Justina: And how many people are you currently sharing accommodation with?

All: Four

Satyam: Who pay the bill? Both of them isn’t it? The man officely.

All:(laughing)

Hayat: So what about for example if you wanna go out like outside or play some… go to the gym. How do you connected to… how do you basically communicate to each other?

C: End of the day we’re back from work from uni at night so we sit together and have our dinner. So that we can communicate and make some plans of what we going to do for tomorrow.

Hayat: So when you’re doing those plans, where do you save or write it down?

Satyam: They probably put in the head

All: Yahyahyah

Hayat: Yah I know but when you write it down like for example do you use the diary or something like that?

All: Paper

Hayat: Paper…Okay.

Satyam: That’s ok. Thank you very much…

End

Involved group members: Hayat, Satyam, Justina, Louis(note-taking)