Designing a self-inquiry toolkit (in the form of a Board Game) for Performing Artists to Explore the Hero's Journey in Their Personal and Professional Lives

How they used Delve

A Master of Design candidate at OCAD University used Delve to inductively code sixteen interviews with performing artists and mental health professionals, working with a second coder and checking intercoder agreement, to derive the themes that shaped a Hero's Journey self-inquiry board game.

“Delve software (qualitative data analysis software) was used for the process of coding the data. To enhance the reliability and validity of this coding process, we involved a second coder to help reduce the potential for bias and errors. This collaborative approach not only expedited the analysis but also brought diverse perspectives to the interpretation of the data. The intercoder agreement played a crucial role in ensuring that multiple researchers were interpreting the data consistently”

Field

Design for health and mental wellbeing; a Hero's Journey self-inquiry board game for performing artists

Data

Sixteen online semi-structured interviews - seven performing artists and nine mental health professionals - recruited through arts organizations, mental health associations, social media and online communities, video-recorded and transcribed, with participants compensated by $25 gift card

Approach

Inductive coding of interview transcripts transitioning into thematic analysis (Kiger & Varpio; Saunders et al.), with a second coder brought in to reduce bias and error and intercoder agreement used to check consistent interpretation; trustworthiness also supported by member checking, peer debriefing, and a reflexivity strategy, with a written positionality statement

Data types

Interviews