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| Criterion |  UX Research Diary Study |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 60–90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-20 | 2-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience Timeline | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | UX researchTrackingBehavior | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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