Analyzing The Psychological And Emotional Experiences Held...

Drawing on the information and researched gathered using ethnographic data, in groups we have progressed from choosing between a hardware and scenario, refining the chosen scenario and creating concepts to find a solution to the problems that have come up from the research on our scenario context, documenting the journey to our refined context and concepts. Further development and refinement of a concept is necessary in order to test and evolve it. This report discusses the psychological and emotional experiences held by commuters on trains. Various methods of observation and readings have been employed into refining the context of our research and exploring different avenues in order to quantify our knowledge of Ethnographic Data to get to the concepts. Ethnography is the study of cultural and social phenomena. 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