Observation fieldnotes

Begin time: 4:47pm
End time: 5:05pm
Date: September 20, 2006
Location: Breezeway of the Washington Center by Chick-fil-a at University of Central Florida
Observer: David Kent Norman
Frame: Paired observation exercise

Time

ON Observer Notes

OC Observer Comments

MN Methodological Notes

4:47

Lady is washing window with pole at the copy shop

Holding keys in her left hand

 

 

Washer lady is wearing sunglasses

 

 

 

Older gentleman stopped to talk to the window washer and is sitting on concrete wall

 

 

 

Another lady stops to talk to washer lady and gentleman and tells her she can stop washing

Washer lady keeps washing anyway

 

4:49

 

 

Students at picnic table are talking loudly so I can’t understand the conversation with the washer lady and passersby

 

Gentleman walks away from washer lady

 

 

 

Undergrad male walked behind me talking on a cell phone and wearing blue and black backpack

 

 

 

Guy at picnic table yelled at girl passing

Girl named Rockelle

 

 

Rockelle stopped by the table to talk to the guy and the other two girls at the picnic table

 

 

 

4 students passed by the coke machines

Looked like undergrads

 

4:52

3 gentleman passed by the washer lady

One was listening to headphones and all looked like undergrads

 

 

Students at the picnic table are talking about law school

Rockelle is thinking about joining law school program

 

4:53

Rockelle is scared, petrified about her LSATs and can’t focus on her clients

Rockelle seems young to have clients

 

4:54

Older gentleman passes the coke machines

Holding a leather portfolio and looks confused about where he’s going

 

 

Rockelle said she is a “worry wort”

 

 

4:55

3 people passed coke machines

One was older gentleman carrying a gym bag

 

4:55

Guy passes washer woman

Carrying papers on his hip and dressed in a brown suit; looks like undergrad

 

4:56

 

 

The background noise of people talking in the breezeway is making it hard to hear even the people at the picnic table next to me.

4:57

Two people passed the washer woman

One was female, the other male, both looked like young undergrads

 

 

Washer woman steps back from the windows

Looks like she’s inspecting her work

 

4:58

Washer woman walks away from the window, taking her bucket of solution

 

 

4:59

5 people walk by coke machines

4 look like young undergrads; one girl had a brown belt wrapped around her shirt and a neon green skirt

 

5:00

Two girls walked by the copy windows and then through the picnic tables.

One stopped to sit at a picnic table by herself and opened to her cell phone to read something in it

 

 

Four guys walked through the step part of the breezeway

Looked like they weren’t even old enough to be in college

 

5:01

A group of 6 people walked through the step area of the breezeway

All were dressed professionally

 

5:02

Girl who walked through tables and sat down to read phone is staring at me

Might have noticed I’m observing; she is eating some junk food and drinking a coke

 

 

Girl in red shirt walked by coke machines wearing a red shirt with Greek letters on the front

 

 

 

Three older ladies walked by the coke machines

One had a gold badge on like what UCF staff wear