{"id":1221,"date":"2024-05-03T11:11:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T11:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/social-informatics\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2024-05-09T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T10:28:27","slug":"seminar-on-delphi-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/social-informatics\/2024\/05\/seminar-on-delphi-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Delphi technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week\u2019s Social Informatics Research Group meeting was a seminar on the Delphi technique. Marianne Wilson<\/a> and David Haynes<\/a> introduced the technique, which is a \u2018structured way of corralling experts\u2019 input\u2019. It is based on two or more rounds of feedback on a series of statements or scenarios, and can be used to avoid \u2018group-think\u2018, to identify areas of uncertainty and to establish priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Marianne Wilson<\/a> spoke about her use of the technique for participatory design, in her PhD research, to design a useful career support chatbot to support Skills Development Scotland<\/a>\u2019s services for young people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Brazier<\/a> spoke about use of the technique in the \u2018iDP\u2019 project, which researched how library staff and others may be \u2018digital proxies\u2019, i.e. asked to log into and take actions on users\u2019 online accounts (e.g. apply for benefits) when the users cannot do so themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Haynes<\/a> spoke about use of the technique to identify future research themes in online privacy and risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussion focussed on how research group members might use the technique in future research, covering topics such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n