Interview with Tim

Tim

# Need Finding Interviews


## Interview 1:
* name: Annika Kouhia
* date: 09/20/2019  
* occupation: Professor
* location: Sudikoff
* interview partner: Tim Pierson

### Some potential questions to get you started

* What does your day to day life look like?
  * Like everyone else's. School year: prep for class, answer student questions, meet with people, class time, research/grant writing and getting to agreement. 
  * Creepy things that are going on that are concerning from a security and privacy POV
* What are the hardest parts of your day? In general/long term?
  * In research it's hard to stay ahead of what everyone else is doing--like the MIT team getting your HR wirelessly
* If you had a lot of skills and money, what would you make or do?
  * Make something that would help people who are struggling
  * No specific issue at this point 
* What is a time that you were pissed off at something?
  * Watching daughter's soccer game and other player shoved her after CONCUSSIONS
* What is a time you noticed a clever solution to something?
  * Strip out the green componenet and as your heart beats you can detect in the green component a change in skin color
  * Made an app called Card.io which 
* What are some things you like?
* What do you dislike? 
* Products that you wished existed?
  * Wish there was something that would help me recognize people as they came up to me and remember what we had talked about last
* Could you tell me story about a time you ______?
* What was your best/worst/craziest/most memorable experience with (area of focus)?
* What would I find surprising about . . .?

* IMPOSTER SYNDROME: FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
  * Showing up to Tuck everyone else went to Harvard//I can't believe how lucky I am to be here
  * This is fine I'm going to make it through this
  * Is there anything that would have helped you get to that realization sooner?
    * Dawn after the first few exams that he was doing fine
    * Getting feedback sooner rather than later would have been potentially helpful
  * Somewhat related to Kotz' work on stress management--how can we detect when stress is hitting
  * How can we mitigate that stress? How can we keep people healthier by lowering stress
    * MAYBE LOOK BACK AT EVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE CLASS
* SUSTAINABILITY/ENVIRONMENTALISM
  * I wish I did
  * At one point was invovled with a group that was considering buying and installing wind turbines
  * Super interesting to do some research on how turbines work 
    * The closest you've been to sustainable organization
  * It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't feel like I do enough
    * I try not to take the straw when I don't need one
    * I haven't moved into a YURT 
    * But I live in a house
    * Why not?
      * Awareness? Time? Knowledge? Resources?
      * I try to do the right thing but I FEEL like I'm not making that big of an impact
        * Would, but my suscpicions are that I miss opportunities
      * Really just not knowing what we can and should do
        * Why haven't you looked online
          * There needs to be a catalyst to say go do this NOW 
            * A trigger event
      * Daughter walked up to a construction crew and turn off things you're not using 
        * Contact principal of middle school
      * Education that makes children more aware
      * I wish I were doing better I'm just not

### Record Any Observations

* What were they doing while you asked them stuff?
* Any particular reactions / emotions during the interview or specific questions?

### Reflect / Conclusions

* were there any problems or stories that made you think, "how might we help __ do __?"
* what are some HMW statements you can draw from this conversation?
* for your favorite:
  * who is the target audience?
  * what would the problem statement be?
  * what would a potential solution be?