qualitative experience data gathering
Using the lo-fidelity prototype you constructed in the last deliverable (or a revised version, depending on the feedback you got from me), gather data about how users experience your concept and initial design. Let the scenarios key your inquiry.
Focus on the important details, such as:
- Introduction -- what the system does, and what the goals are for this study.
- The tasks that participants are asked to perform / activities they engage in;
- Significant data that was collected. This is not all the data, necessarily, in raw form, but some digested form that presents everything relevant that happened during the study.
- Analysis. What was learned? How will this impact the design?
- The affordances for notification of events in context, and for users' responses;
- How state is made visible (or audible, or tactile), or not;
- Flows of essential information, expression, and control;
- How users transition between real life and the mediated reality (e.g., engagement in interactive i/o while walking down hallways or crossing streets);
- Social aspects of experience, and how your system affects them.
A suggested approach is to carry out the process described in [3].
Rehearse on each other before you bring in your
subject/friends. Realize that lo-fi prototypes can be buggy!
Work to identify and fix bugs in advance.
Assign the suggested roles -- such as
greeter, computer, observer -- to
members in your group.
You may also think of yourself as
conducting a workshop [1, 2]. Perform a debriefing at the end [3].
You may create whatever variations on this process you like, to the
extent that you are very clear in your sense of what you're doing. Ask
me (by email or in person) if you're unsure.
references
1. Boal, A. Games for Actors and Non-Actors, New York: Routledge, 1992.
2. Jacobs, M., Gaye, L., Holmquist, L.E., Tejp: Ubiquitous Computing as Expressive Means of Personalising Public Space, Proc Ubicomp 2003 Extended.
2. Rettig, M., Prototyping for tiny fingers CACM 37:4 (April 1994), 21-27.
due tuesday 11/24