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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |  UX Research Contextual Inquiry |  Knowledge Modeling NeOn Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory. | 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 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. | The NeOn Methodology structures ontology work as a controlled process with reuse, scenarios, and reviews. It is useful when ontologies should not emerge ad hoc but modularly and reusably. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 2-4 h | 1-3 Wochen | Mehrere Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 4-12 Beobachtungen | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix | Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points | Ontology Requirements Specification, Reuse Plan, Ontology Modules, Evaluation Report |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic | UX researchObservationContext | OntologyMethodologyReuseSemanticEngineering |