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Human-Centered Design Tools
Published in Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, Learning Engineering Toolkit, 2023
Jim Goodell, Andrew J. Hampton, Richard Tong, Sae Schatz
To complete an affinity diagram, follow these steps: 16Ask participants to silently jot down concepts, one per sticky notePost the ideas for everyone to see, like on a real or digital white boardCollectively sort the notes into conceptual categoriesPromote an existing card or create a new header card for each groupCreate superheaders if two or more groups have a strong relationshipRedraw the concepts and categories as a finished document
Quality Tools for Oil and Gas Industry
Published in Abdul Razzak Rumane, Quality Management in Oil and Gas Projects, 2021
Affinity diagram is a tool that gathers a large group of ideas/items and organizes into a smaller grouping based on their natural relationships. Affinity diagram is refinement of brainstorming ideas into something smaller groups, which can be dealt more easily and satisfy the team members. The affinity process is often used to group ideas generated by brainstorming. Affinity diagram is created as per the following steps: Generate ideas and list the ideas without criticism.Display the ideas in a random manner.Sort the ideas and place them into multiple groups.Continue until smaller groups satisfy all the members.Draw affinity diagram.
Tools for Quality
Published in Flevy Lasrado, Norhayati Zakaria, Internalizing a Culture of Business Excellence, 2018
Flevy Lasrado, Norhayati Zakaria
The affinity diagram can be used in many situations: for example, after we finish a brainstorming session and we want to look at all the ideas we have recorded. Or we may use it when we must reach a consensus between a group of people who are handling an uncategorized list of suggestions. The diagram can also be used to analyze the information we record while interviewing someone in a research project. The typical application of the affinity diagram, however, comes after creating a tree diagram. We apply this diagram using the following steps: first, record each idea on a card or board; second, search for relevant ideas; third, sort the cards into groups until all the cards are used; finally, once the cards are sorted into groups, classify large groups into subgroups to facilitate management and analysis. If you are doing the exercise in a team, using a whiteboard and markers is a good idea because the participants will be able to see it and read it from a distance. It is fine to have a few notes or ideas remain ungrouped; or, if you think one idea belongs to two different groups, then you may make a second card.
Substantiation of home occupant archetypes with the use of generative techniques: analysis and results of focus groups
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2022
Marco A. Ortiz, Dong Hyun Kim, Philomena M. Bluyssen
When the codes are produced, they are made into physical tags to create affinity diagrams. An affinity diagram is a tool that allows organizing large numbers of qualitative ideas and data into groups in order to see the natural relations between pieces of data (themes or explanations) pertaining to two or more topics; in this case, the two topics were the meaning of using energy at home and the ideal home comfort experience.