However, we are, in the words of James, Living in Extraordinary times. And adaptation is always the key. Creative collaboration has moved online - Slack, JIRA and Hangouts are the front line. And our insight work is unaffected. Quantitative work is, if anything stronger as people have so much time on their hands all of a sudden. And our qual is about simply dialling up the “Socially Distanced” methodologies that we’ve always used - we just never called them Socially Distanced before.
Technology and families are almost synonymous today. And so what better way to take full advantage of the situation we now find ourselves in than by getting some amazing insight from really engaging with respondents across digital platforms.
A speedy, efficient and relevant way to collect data. Advances in video and mobile technology and the adoption of these technologies by young people make this an ideal way to explore qualitative questions with them. Below I’ve outlined a few of the techniques we’re using and given just a taste of the quality output you can expect from Kids Industries during this time.
We are expert in the practice in managing online communities, whether more formal and managed through our range of specialist software or more informal and focused on capturing a breadth of lifestyle data.
These are great methods to capture longitudinal behaviours and a change in attitudes.
And if you need to generate wide-ranging data for inspiration and innovation quickly this is a truly efficient way of getting things done. And finally, if your brief is wide ranging this is a great way to dip in and out and iterate your questioning.
When participants are well-briefed and understand the research objectives, they are fantastic in supporting moderation or in delivering the answers directly. Filming themselves vlog-style is nothing new for a tween or a teen, whilst in a more family-focused scenarios, we engage and enrol parents to act as a supporter moderator who works with us to facilitate discovery with their child. We use a variety of comms tools to do this and of course, you can join the session from home without needing to travel anywhere to capture all of the action first hand.
Truly authentic responses from teens and tweens that makes for great content to persuade and educate your teams. Self moderation also works a treat with younger parent and child duos as it gets as close as possible to traditional qual insights. And best of all? This gets results super fast.
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This ‘traditional’ online research method, in which the moderator and participants discuss the research questions, similarly to the face to face set up. Just doing it over a stable video link. A great way to run virtual traditional focus groups, one-to-one depth interviews and for capturing the thoughts and feelings of the whole family.
Across all of our online methods, we are spending a great deal of time with the respondents with an increased focus on briefing them, carefully designing pre-tasks to make sure the key session is as insightful as possible and, of course, the art of the follow-up.
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