4.3 Surveys

SO3 is conducted a Tuesday late night to see if people claim the space for their own at odd hours when the commuters fall away, and the space is quieter. The entire stretch of the liner park is observed for this purpose. As new evidence of people claiming the space is found in SO3, SO4 is scehduled to attempt to capture the said people claiming the space and study their motivations.

In addition to structured observations, our team also conducted surveys and interviews on the above-mentioned site visits.

4.3 Surveys

Survey consists of three main approaches: exploratory, descriptive and explanatory surveys (Williamson & Johanson, 2013) depending on the parameters of target group and objective. Thereare in additionfive survey design options to constructefficient surveyframework, namely, time period, respondent group, variable choices, data collection and analytical method (Lau F, 2017). Survey is considered as best method to obtain overall impression and attributes of a large group. With regards to this proposal, our team strategically select explanatory surveys and data collection to supplement our structured observations. Data collection will mainly refer to questionnaire and semi-structured interview.

Our team designed two surveys for both active sampling (SV1) as part of interview, and passive sampling (SV2). SV1 is meant for users of the space and residents in AMK and SV2 for general public residing in Singapore who may or may not personally experienced the linear park.

SV1 is designed with simple English-Chinese closed-end questions (see Appendix 3) to cater to the nature of the space where majority of users are constantly in motion whether in transit or exercise and serve as a primer to engage participants for a more in depth interactiveparticipatory interviews (to be elaborated in 4.4 below). SV2 is similarly designed with simple questions (see Appendix 4) in recognition of the difficulty to obtain survey response from the general public who have no vested interests and are not otherwise incentivised. It is nonetheless important to consider the views of general public if the fruits of our work were to