Category: Observers

Tuesday

• 19/29 students had jackets (66%)
• 2/19 wore jackets inside the classroom, while 17/19 were placed on chairs
• Total of 10 drinks on the table (34% of classroom with a drink)
• 7 waters, 2 coffees, 1 soda, 0 juice
• 10/29 printed out the articles for the day.

Thursday

• 14/26 students had jackets (54%)
• 3/14 wore jackets inside the classroom, while 11/14 were placed on chairs
• Total of 9 drinks on the table (35% of classroom with a drink)
• 6 waters, 2 coffees, 0 soda, 1 juice
• Plus, 1 candy eaten today in class= Skittles
• 4/26 printed out the article for the day.
• Time spent chatting with Micki= 25 minutes

Interestingly, out of both day, there was only one person who ate something during class, which was the candy. Also, with the temperature increase from Tuesday to Thursday, less jackets were brought to class as there was a 12 percent decrease.

For Tuesday and Thursday’s classes, I logged when and from which table any student spoke up in class to answer a question, share a thought, etc. I arbitrarily assigned numbers to each table according to the diagram on the right.

The data appear below.

Tuesday 2/3/15		Thursday 2/5/15
time	table	time	table
1:42	3	1:42	8
1:44	3	2:10	4
1:44	5	2:22	1
1:45	2	2:25	3
1:46	8	2:32	8
1:46	3	2:33	7
1:53	3	2:34	7
1:54	5	2:35	3
1:55	5	2:39	8
2:04	4	2:43	1
2:05	1	2:44	8
2:07	4	2:52	2
2:08	3	2:53	7
2:09	3	2:54	7
2:10	8	2:55	8
2:10	2
2:10	6
2:10	7
2:11	5
2:12	8
2:13	4
2:28	7
2:30	6
2:30	3
2:32	7
2:32	4
2:33	8
2:34	2
2:36	4
2:36	3

Tuesday:

• Times people spoke up in class: 26
• People who spoke up: 15
• The most times an individual spoke up: 4
• People who shook legs: 7
• People wearing a shirt: 8
• People who kept notes with pen/pencil: 7
• People who yawned: 2
• Petty actions:
  • Touch chin: 10
  • Touch nose: 4
  • Bite fingers: 4
  • Play with pen/pencil: 4
• Group discussion:1

Thursday:

• Times people spoke up in class: 10
• People who spoke up: 8
• The most times an individual spoke up: 3
• People who shook legs: 9
• People wearing a shirt: 7
• People who kept notes with pen/pencil: 9
• People who yawned: 5
• People who brought laundry to the class: 1
• Group discussion: 1

Plus: It might be really interesting if observers keep track of how many times people speak up and how many people speak up per week, and make a chart in the end. Just a suggestion!

Tuesday:

People with beverages 7

People wearing t-shirts 5

People wearing blue to class 10

People wearing hat in class 4

Times written on the white board 5

People wearing glasses 3

People wearing stripes 2

Times we had group discussions with our table 1

 

Thursday:

People with beverages in class: 11

People wearing only t-shirts in the class 5

People wearing something blue to class 7

People wearing hat in class 2

Times written on the white board 2

People wearing glasses 5

People wearing stripes 0

Times we had group discussions with our table 2

Numbers of times students spoke up in class 26

Tuesday, January 27:

• 4 hats in class
• 1 pair of crutches
• 1 person wearing flip flops (high temperature: 46 degrees)
• 3 people wearing glasses, unknown number wearing contacts
• still only 3 girls in class
• 9 shirts with collars
• ~24 minutes spent building panopticon

Thursday, January 29:

• 2 patagonia fleeces
• 6 people wearing glasses, presumably lower number of people wearing contacts
• 10 drinks on tables
• Time of Arrivals:
• 

Tuesday:

• 13 laptops out, 10 of which were open
• 9 of these were Apple
• 2 tablets out: 1 apple, 1 windows
• 15 people had paper notebooks
• 2 had both a laptop and paper notebook
• 1 person had nothing out at all

Thursday:

• 19 laptops out, all open
• 14 of these were Apple
• 3 tablets out: 2 apple, 1 windows
• 11 people had paper notebooks
• 5 people had both a laptop and paper notebook
• 0 people had nothing out

Tuesday (1/27)

10 pairs of blue jeans

3 hats

5 sunglasses

2 crutches

2 coffee cups

2 fraternity shirts

2 econ pens

1 Ticonderoga pencil

13 computers being used

-6 apple computers

-1 tablet

7 green markings on board

4 blue markings on board

18 questions asked by Dr. Sample

7 Nike shoes

 

Thursday (1/29)

25 questions asked my Dr. Sample

18 Iphones

8 androids

4 other phones

5 drinks on tables

26 computers being used

1 hat

4 Davidson shirts

1 fraternity shirt

Tuesday (1/27):

• Words written on the board by Dr. Sample: Dataveillance, surveillance, and superpanopticon (this word was underlined)
• 18 comments written on the board by students, responding to Foucault’s statement, “Visibility is a trap”
• First interactive class exercise and first time Dr. Sample has recorded us
• 3 people wearing hats to class
• Class finished at 2:52PM

Thursday (1/29)

• Words written on the board by Dr. Sample: Inscribe, writing (written underneath inscribe), represent, and depict (written underneath represent)
• No comments written on board by students
• First YouTube video shown in class
• In preparation for the quantified self assignment, it looks like there are 18 IOS devices, 8 Androids, and 4 Others
• Ended class on the idea that the act of observation changes the object being observed

General observation from both days:

With some exceptions, it seems as though the class organizes its seating arrangement by gender (all 3 girls at one table), fraternity, athletic organization, and college year.

DIG 210- Data Collection: Distribution of Technology
Tuesday:
5 Windows Computers
7 Mac Computers
1 Windows Tablet
2 Mac Tablets

Thursday:
(Statistics Obtained Prior to Use of Lab Computers)
5 Windows Computers
1 Windows Tablet
2 Mac Tablets
12 Mac Computers

In addition to this, as we learned in class, we have 18 iPhone users (iPhone 5 or later), 8 Android users, and 4 people who use a different type of mobile device.