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| Criterion |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. | When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen | 2-4 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 2-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchObservationContext | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas |
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