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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research Diary Study | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Property Graph Schema Design | ![]() Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles. | Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 4-8 h initial, dann iterativ | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-6 | 1-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | Schema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample Queries | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | Knowledge graphModelingSemantic | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |



