• On 20th September 2021, we had a group meeting where we discussed the questions to be asked to the participants and also shortlisted the participants taking into consideration the diversity in culture and personalities of the participants.
• On 21st September 2021, we met again and refined the questionnaire by categorizing the questions in a particular way. Then we distributed the work amongst the team members and analyzed how to ask questions focusing on getting specific insights of every participant's pain points and recommendations.
• On 22nd September 2021, scheduled interviews, taking into consideration each participant's availabilities and ours as well.
• 23th-28th September 2021: We conducted the interviews. We cover almost all the interviews in pairs of two where one member asked them questions and observed the participants, and the other member noted the answers and recorded the interview using otter.ai for live automatic transcription.
• 29th-30th September 2021: We conducted meetings online and interpreted the data from the interviews. We started working on Affinity notes and Affinity diagrams and also started including the information on the Team Website for Milestone 2.
• On 1st September 2021, we met online to review the work done and fine-tuned elements of the website and the Affinity Diagram.

Demographics

The majority of the interviews were conducted in person and a few through online platforms like Google Meet and Zoom. We were able to reach out to participants from varied demographics. The participants are aged between 18 to 34. Out of the students we interviewed, 30% are locals and 70% are International including students from South Korea, Taiwan, India, and Europe.