Normal/Daily Wash Is the Default When Cleanliness Is the Top Goal
Facets
These facets are broadly related to the theme.
Answers for the multiple choice question: "Looking at your dishwasher’s dial or display, which program are you choosing for this load? Please pick the option below that is closest to the program name you see."
Confidence in program selectionClassified by AI
Participant’s or interviewer’s expressed confidence in the program choice (reflects whether the selected option is a strong or tentative match).
Display legibilityClassified by AI
How clearly the program name is visible on the machine at the time of the interview; affects confidence in coding the chosen program.
Program identification methodClassified by AI
How the interviewer determined which program name to record (direct reading, participant reading, camera clarification, or guess). Useful to assess reliability of the selected program label.
Answers for the multiple choice question: "For this load, which of these are most important to you when choosing the program and settings? Select up to two."
Number of program priorities selectedClassified by AI
Records whether the participant chose one or two priorities when asked (captures how many trade-offs they are willing to state for this load).
Rationale for selected program priorities (load-specific)Classified by AI
Captures the participant’s load-specific reasons for why the chosen program/settings matter (e.g., protect delicates, ensure sanitization for baby items, speed because guests arriving). Use participant wording and link to this particular run.
Answers for the multiple choice question: "Roughly how long do you expect this program to take from start to finish?"
Quotes
“I feel like that's typically our main reason for utilizing the dishwasher occasionally. Like, after hosting, we will have delicate items, and so we will choose the, like, the one hour wash. It just feels like it's safer. Things do come out still very wet. But, again, with my more delicate and special items, I'm fine with that. But 99% of the time, we're just using normal. We just wanna get it clean to keep the routines of our house running.”
“So we normally just choose the regular cycle. I feel like we've tried to use eco or quick cycle and I feel like they never seem to work as well. So we normally just try to do the regular clean. I feel like that's pretty much the standard or the rule in our household. And then we do try to get everything as clean as possible and we do seem to think that that one works the best.”
“I actually think it's all of those. I think, part of it is the way I load it. I did leave some space. I try not to put a bunch of stuff really super close together so that it has a chance. Even these plates, they're they're not really that close together. I spread the silverware out so that it gets clean and is not clanking against. I think there might be something to be said with having powder detergent as well as the rinse aid seems to work really well. So I I think it's all of those. I just did the normal setting. I I do have other settings that probably would work good. There's, you know, ultra dry and sanitize and all those. I don't seem to need them. They seem to get pretty clean without it.”
“I mean, it's not really I I I don't wanna lie. I I think the number one rule is you always follow the house rules and habits. Clean it and keep the you know, don't have it too dirty going in. Pipes fight pipes. I can't I can't express that enough. And then get them as clean as possible. There's really nothing special here. Save an energy or water. We have one of the energy saving ones. We could, but this is a normal load. And I think, you know, just running the normal cycle here is gonna get the job done. Don't really it doesn't have to be as quick as possible. It doesn't have to come out super dry even though on a normal load, they always do. I don't need to fit as many things as possible. So, I mean, in this load, these are the best two answers.”
“For right now this is just a normal load that's being washed so the one that really is the most is not really about making sure everything comes out dry I don't want to have to get a towel and dry it and then just fitting as many in as possible it's kind of a little space that's left over I don't worry about the noise as much but getting everything as clean as possible is always my number one”
“Because every time I have to do eggs and make pancakes, I have to wash the pots and pans immediately because the pancake mix will get really stuck, and then the eggs get stuck on the pan. So I wash it, you know, the same day that I cook and put it in the dishwasher. It's just daily habit for me. Just put it in there, drop on pod, put it on a normal wash, and I'm done.”
“I think what had the biggest impact is not doing water saver mode for this one. I think keeping it as normal wash helped out with that. I feel like if I didn't do that mode or even if I had done heavy wash, I might have done a little bit better. But I think that this mode is what keeps it or is keeping it very clean.”
“I don't want to have to do rework. I want to be able to just come down in the morning, put my dishes away and not have to dry anything. And I don't want to have to, you know, second clean something. I'm sure I won't have to. This load is a pretty basic load and I'm sure it's going to come out really good.”