On Tuesday November 2, we went over the scenarios made by each group. Some of the examples created were excellent. Here I include some of the comments brought up during the session.
The first group that presented, Suse, Heikki, Kalle, Tapio, Palas and Jian, proposed a voice-to-text concept that would simplify the process of interaction. The graphics were beautifully realized. The scenario itself needed more details, with respect to system interaction and in the presentation, the group needed to sound more convincing.
The second group, that included Forrest, Vuokko, Ferhat, and John presented us “Bridging the Generation Gap”, a Brief Analysis of 3 potential user groups, and 3 potential technologies as well as a video scenario. With respect to the Brief Analysis, it was commented that because of the large amounts of text, the visual presentation of these materials was not effective. The video scenario, however, was a total success in how it showed clearly the patterns of interaction of story collection with a voice-driven interface.
The third group that presented, “A Christmas to Remember”, included Dipti, Juho, Satoko, Jaakko and Mikko. They have already done some user interview, with members of their families and presented an excellent rendition of potential interaction with an internet-based story collection system. This scenario included 1) a memorable title that immediately contextualized the work 2) Used clearly defined persona’s 3) Clearly rendered the user interface and tasks being performed from a 3D perspective so that we were able to see the foreground (the functions that the user was accessing to complete tasks) as well as the background.
The fourth group that presented included Jussi, Lauri, Minka, Markus,
and Matti. This group showed us an interesting scenario featuring a multi-cultural family that is split between Finland and Argentina. The scenario, that was beautifully rendered, showed an understanding of the problematic of the users in maintaining their ties to 2 different cultures. It could have focused more closely on the system details.
The fifth group that included Outi, Helena, Tapio, Björn, Minna and Reina gave a very good rendition of a story collection system, “Elsa in Epooq Land”, grounded in real life institutions, such as libraries. It also provided with convincing insights about the feasibility of future products such as memory books.
Next week we will have Merja Helle, who is a researcher at the Department of Media as guest speaker. Merja will give us a presentation about “Fieldwork”, what it means, how to do it, and some insights.
During the next few weeks, you will be required to create questionnaires that allow you to perform some fieldwork and enable you to get an understanding of how people might respond to the design that you have developed in your scenarios.
Below I list interesting sites that have a lot of good information about How to go about making a questionnaire. Please look through these.
University of Leeds, Guide to the design of questionnaires
University of Loughborough, Questionnaire design
Usability.gov
WAI Site Usability Testing Questions
He also urged the students to think in terms of the properties of objects, since this strategy can be used to design behavior. This last point, reminded me of how, in the design research seminar at Media Lab, we use a modified version of the artifact analysis method in order to tease out the properties of artifacts/object. Check out his sketch where he presents a re-thinking of the artifacts used when interacting with a stream of video. The sketches also made me think of the work we did with performative research and scenarios for the HandsOn project.
