Over the past three days, we’ve conducted 11 interviews, and even had a few responses to our survey. We’ve been incredibly grateful for all the people willing to spend some time to talk to us, given the worldwide crisis surrounding COVID-19, and their willingness to try using Zoom, a virtual meeting app, as for many of them it’s been their first time. We’ve spoken to both members of the ecotourism board in the Transylvanian Highlands and people involved with businesses across the region, and they’ve given us a diverse set of opinions to guide our development of the website. Many of them have been very enthusiastic about the project, which has been encouraging, though we have also faced some doubts of the feasibility of some of our ideas. While we could take this as a challenge to beat, or as discouragement, we hope to take all of the advice and insight we’ve been receiving to heart and try to use it to make sure that this website is successful in our goal of serving the entire community as well as we can. Most of our interviewees have been very candid about the needs of the region, and their businesses, giving us a useful perspective of how the website needs to function to interact appropriately with this region. Tomorrow we will conclude the remainder of our interviews, and we intend to rapidly analyze the responses to generate a prioritized list of requirements by Friday. We also intend to revisit the responses that we have recorded throughout the project to make sure that we address concerns and insights that our interviewees have shared with us. While we’re disappointed that we can’t go to Romania ourselves as planned, speaking to all of these people has made us feel more personally invested in the project, and has reignited our passion to ensure that we do it right. We’re very thankful for all of these people’s help, and we want to make sure that in return, we include their views, beliefs and needs.
In addition to these interviews, we’ve continued working on our report. We have been working on another round of editing, with each of us reading through for clarity, information content, and grammar and suggesting and making changes. We also recognized a gap in our research on wayfinding and website best practices, so following some additional reading last week we have added new writing on these subjects. As we continue working on the project, we anticipate identifying more gaps in our paper and we have scheduled time to be able to fill these to make sure that the report is a good representation of our project and its quality. We hope that it will inspire readers to become more involved in initiatives such as the one we’re working with in the Transylvanian Highlands, and provide them with a better understanding of the ways and needs of rural areas.
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