“Affinity” Focus Group exercise - Georgia Tech Library

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affinity Focus Group exercise At Georgia Tech we sometimes use an affinity Focus Group exercise to tap into customer preferences for services, accommodations, furnishings, technology, etc., in renovated Library spaces. This can be an effective technique for sampling customer expectations and, more critically, discovering to what degree the customers expectations converge with our own. This discovery technique helps to mitigate the risk of bringing new spaces into production by helping us to align space programming with customer expectations. In past years when we conducted Focus groups, we attempted to have proportionate student participation by assembling academic majors in their relative numbers ( 13% electrical engineering, 15% computer science, 13% architecture, etc.)

participants for attending. Tell them the exercise will not extend more than an hour. Assure them that when the data / comments are compiled afterward, no one will be quoted or have a specific comment

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