Design for Agile Aging
January 15: Empathy and Interviewing

Topics: Interviewing and observation techniques, Working with older people

Activities

• Debrief on design day at IDEO
• Check-in on behavior change
• Discussion of observation
• Interviewing demo
• Discussion of interviewing and the interviewing assignment

Materials

• Handout on interviewing and observing, including the assignment.
• Slides on observation (from Barry/Kahn)
• Slides on anatomy of an interview (from Barry/Kahn)
  

Due In Class

• Nothing

Due Next Time

• Exercise Assignment