We will be using surveys and interviews as our needfinding techniques to collect data to help our project. Our goal is to find both people who know someone with Parkinson's and people who don't (and ideally some people with Parkinson's but that is hard to find).
The first needfinding tool we used was an online survey. We created the survey using Google Forms and had each member of the team send it via social media, email, or text to some people in their lives. The survey is made up of mostly multiple choice questions with a few short answer questions to get more in depth answers.
When asked "Where do you feel the ParkTest site is weakest?" most of the responses said that the site was either too plain, unclear, or old looking.
When asked "What features would you add to the ParkTest website to increase its robustness?" there were a variety of answers but some were that it should be an app instead of website, more tests are needed, and the instructions should be more clear.
For our interviews we wanted to conduct more but we only were able to interview one familial caretaker of someone with Parkinson's and one student that works with UI. Below is the document from where the questions were asked and the results we got back. In the future given more time and resources we would really invision interviewing actual Parkinson's patients and more of their caretakers (potential even nurses/doctors) but sadly that couldn't be accomplished at this time.