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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Knowledge Modeling Ontology Design Patterns |  Agile ROAM Board |  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. | When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 1-3 h pro Pattern | 20-40 min initial, dann laufend | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 1-6 | 3-15 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Selected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern Documentation | ROAM Board, Owner List | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling | RiskAgileTrackingAlignment | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |