this week marked the first official, class-wide presentation of our work so far and our intentions as we move forward.
i'm spending time at this point doing justice to the surveys i took and cataloguing people's stories. here are some emergent points i've discovered, some more surprising than others. given my sample, which are people that i know directly and through social media and who volunteered to participate in such a survey, the distance is overwhelmingly that of college. even those who have dealt with other types of distance, such as military separation, have also experienced college separation. almost everyone, military excluded, gets to see their partners around once a month. phone, texting, skype, and facebook are huge communication help, while many people also enjoy the intimacy of letters. one coping mechanism that cropped up unexpectedly was that of pets, whether one partner currently has care of the other's, or whether a pet was adopted specifically to help with the separation.
these are some of the people who've shared their stories with me, beginning with a feature narrative.
very pleased with your in-depth user research AND your follow through with the presentation of it in your book.
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