Congratulations!!!

HELLO MY GROUP MEMBERS

CONGRATULATIONS on ourPhenomenal success !!! We have improved a lot from our first crap presentation .. hahaha....

All well ends well..

Thank you for your co-operation... and listening to my shouts .... hahaha...

Regards,
Anushree..... xxx

      

         As per our evaluation. Some more message sorting features are required. Here is the proposed screen

The option screen which shows Bttery Usage and Memory Used.

Hi-Fid Prototype

Hi guys, 

I'll be making the next advnced version of HMS P1 now in powerpoint. 

All changes will be made acc to the previous c/w. W'll then have a think aloud of the prototype pnthe powerpoint  and record it. 

The following videos canbe viewed under my channel in youtube which is chintandevhanda. The links are

Prototype Demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCraeYhrUG8

Think Aloud:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPxvwh7sPlU

Evaluation

What is evaluation?

Something you do to test your prototype whether it is working properly. Ask users to test it because they are the one who will use the system in future.

There are 2 types if evaluations:-

1) Formative.
2) Summative.

Formative Evaluation is within the design process evaluation. This provides ways of learning about the design options, user group and analysis of prototypes.

Summative evaluation is a finished system and assesses the quality of the system.

Cognitive Walkthrough:-

An approach to evaluation without users. i.e. formative evaluation. Team members perform this task. User is given a set of relevant questions that are applied to each action. Team goes through each action that the user need to perform on the system. For each and every action, The design is reviewed and problematic features should be noted so that designs can be explored.

Few principles of cognitive design:

1) Automate unwanted workload - Remove mental calculations, estimations, comparisons and any unnecessary thinking to free cognitive resources for high-level tasks.

2) Reduce uncertainty - Display data in a manner that is clear.

3) Fuse data - Bring together lover-level data into a higher-level data to reduce cognitive load.

4) Present new information with meaningful aids to interpretation - Use everyday terms, metaphors, etc.. Use familiar framework.

5) Use names that are conceptually related to function - Names should be context-dependent.

6) Group data in consistently meaningful ways - Within screen, group data logically, across screen group data consistently to reduce search time.

7) Limit data-driven tasks - Reduce the time spent understand raw data by using appropriate colors and graphics.

8) Include in the displays only that information needed by the operator at a given time - Exclude irrelevant information that is not relevant to common tasks so that users can focus on critical data.

9) Provide multiple coding of data - Provide data in multiple formats or levels of detail to satisfy different user preferences.

10) Practice judicious redundancy - To resolve the possible conflict between principles 6 and 8, it is sometimes necessary to include more information than is needed.

Overview of the cognitive walkthrough process:

1- Define inputs to the walkthrough
a) Identification of the users.
b) Sample tasks for evaluation.
c) Action sequences for completing the tasks.
d) Description or implementation of the interface.

2- Organize the analysts

3- Walk through the action sequences for each task
a) Tell a credible story, Considering.........
b) Will the user try to achieve the right effect?
c) Will the user notice that the correct action is available?
d) Will the user associate the correct action with the effect that the user is trying to achieve?
e) If the correct action is performed, will the user see that progress is being made toward a solution of the task?

4- Record critical information
a) User knowledge requirements.
b) Assumptions about the user population.
c) Notes about side issues and design changes.
d) The credible success story.

5- Revise the interface to fix the problems

This is all what i have found about cognitive walkthrough.

Think Aloud

So I need to save a task in the calendar?

I see a clock, few name which doesn’t make any sense realy…umm….but where is the calendar……..

And yea I can even see a bell here

…there should be some login system in here ..oh do  I need to swipe in my finger …

…but how will it know its me….

Anyways..lets me try that….

 

Its taking a few moments to respond

 

 

Umm..it says identified new user…must be me

Enter your full name:

Jahedur Rahman

Umm..i click on save

Oh theres loads of stuffs on this page

Now m looking for calendar..there it is the icon…I clicking it…

Oh here it is…a calendar…..

I presume.. u need to click one of these date.. o each one of them has a calendar

 

Oh something is happening

Well it looks Iike I need to give a title to my task

And now m going to the description.. I am typing in the message

I”ll save it…nd thts done….

Chintan: Not yet

I see a  small log off button…nd its done

CW

Chintan ,

What you mean "No user button"??? I didnt understand that. And other's we need to think. Again what you mean by color coding in calender?, Because we have already explained that in our 2nd presentation-prototyping.

Two more things, Text Reader button should be in brail(whateva the spelling is.... haha) so that blind people can recognise.

Other thing, you know if there is a msg for everyone thn there should be a common screen without any kinda login process so that everyone can see.. did you get my point?

CW

Some of the really important things whichis missing in our design is

1. No user Button

2. No option Button to change the size, color of text. 

3. No feedback (No confirmatory message after the task is done)

4. Our assumed color codes for the calendar wont make sense for users. 

Evaluation

http://usabilitynet.org/tools/expertheuristic.htm

Here's a link where we can find on Heuristic Evaluation.

Things to be done

as imstructed these things have to be there on the slides for the thursday....plz jot down some points

1. Mr. Neilson's Heuristic Evaluation

2. Cognitive Walkthrough - One which doesnt invlove user

3. Some sort of evaluation technique which involves user, I was thinking of 'Think Aloud'.... 

Link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/its/servicessupport/web/blogs/about/usability/paper/

will tell ya something about how to present an cateorising evaluation

System Components

}Biometric Fingerprinting Scanner: To give a privacy feature, adding/identifying users.

}Door Bell: HMS P1 can be hung on the entrance door which can also double as an advanced Door Bell. Taking in messages(if not at home), leaving welcome messages etc.

} Touch-screen – The screen displays the message, video,audio, image, etc. and also takes in input from the user.

}

}A 2 MP Camera – To record the video of the person leaving a message. Fast and effective form of visual communication.

}Light and Sound Alert - The light and sound alert of the device starts to glow and make periodic ‘beep’ sounds as soon as the system detects an unread message which can attracts user’s attention.  

} Speaker –The speakers provide the audio output. The positioning of the speakers makes the audio output as realistic as possible.

Prototype Slides

Guys, 

We'll be discussing on the design of the prototype on tuesday. I  hope everyone turns up right after Dave's lecture. I am jotting down Slide Titles for the next presentation. Please suggest me some more/think on the content under these titles. 

}The Task

}Discussions

}Initial Sketches

}Design Aesthetics/ Usability

}Input Methods/Output 

}User Requirements

}Design Functionalities

}Story Board

}Location Reverence

}Video

}Conclusion / Site Map 

Meeting !!!!

Tomorrow 12th Feb Thursday after Data comm seminar we are meeting up for our final presentation slides...

Please guys come up with your all findings... we will decide the place/class later in the seminar..

See you thn...

Final Thread

All Group Members are requested to definitely meet up tomorrow. The presenation slides are nearly ready. We'll decide on the slides distribution when we meet up. 

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The thread for this Coursework is now closed.

Question Category

 I think we have enough of questions now to consider for our focus groups and interviews. To consolidate it here are:

4 main question category

• žTime management skills and daily routines of the respondent .
  
• žLocation of their current means of home messaging.
  
• žDescription of usage, functions they are using in their old system.
  
• žMain complaints they have in using their old system, ease in new  technology. 
  

Important notice.....!!!

Guys , try and post your views and ideas .... We can get good marks....!!!!! 

Chris, Syed take interviews in your circumstances and post it in the blog so that we can make our final presentation....!!!!

Good Luck...!!! :-)

In order to complete this project more user research required

In order to complete the user research i am going to interview people randomly in order to get the most related information that me and my team requires for the project.

The questions that i would like to ask in this interview are listed below:

1. Do you leave in a Flat or House?

2. Do you share the place that you are leaving with other people/family or do you leave by your self?

3. Do you have to share any additional information in between you and the rest that are leaving at the same place? 

4.Do you need to pass any massages to each other?

5. How do you pass a messages one to each other?

6. Is this way of sharing data satisfies you and the other data sharer?

7. Do you think that you require a something like a Home Message system?

Interview Questions

Interview Questions 

1. Who do you live with?

2. How do you communicate with your members of house/flats?

3. How effective is it?

4. Are there any drawbacks with your communication system?

5. How would you improve your system?

I have asked members of my family these questions and most of them communicate with each other through the means of a mobile phone. This is their only means of communicating with each other.

Important Notice.....!!

We dont have any presentation this friday... But seminar is running at regular time.... we can get feedback on whatever we did so far...!!!

Enjoy this weekend... ;-)

Interview ...!!!

People interviewed:- 12
Target Audience:- Family (Family, Neighbourhood families)

I have interviewed the people , some of them were my family members and neighbourhood. The age group varies from 18 years old to 60 years old. And by profession wisethey range from student to IT supporter, Lawyers to Accountant ,
Selfemployed to Unemployed.

Regarding to their profession and working hours , there is slight communication problem between the household. 4 out of 12 said using mobile phones they communicate with each other anyhow.The remaining 8 out of 12 said because of their profession and timings they cant even contact each other through mobile phones, so they write notes at home.

Location:-

Location wise, most of the families use kitchen ,near the staircase or sometimes on the door. There were other answers like living area, dining area, computer desk and on TV.

What kind of messaging system they use to communicate? :-

Answeres were as follows -

Post-it notes
Calender
Notice board
PDAs
Pin board
Sketch board

They also said these forms of messaging system are very easy and simple to use, cheap and reliable.

What features they would like to have in messaging system? :-

Birthday reminders
To do list
Shopping list
Meetings
Alarm
Work shift organizer
Phone numbers
Coursework deadline dates
Events

Well thats all what i got from my findings so far. Most of the views were same. many of them said they are using mobile Phones as their messaging system.

Feel free to comment on my findings.

Snow...!!!!! yayyyyyyyyyyy

Chintan we can take pictures on Wednesday when we gonna do our group meeting..... and i m gonna post some user research/focus group research tonite and tmrw morning... so you can have a look !!! I will take some pictures on the research about the family organization which i am doing....!!!

(I hope snow continues... yayyyyyy...!!!! I wanna  play not studies... hahah..!!!)

Snow !!

Guys I need some pictures. Can anyone send me some pictures with post-notes, sticker etc. (all those organising things). I also need a picture of anyone of us having a discussion with friends or family to be included in our focus group discussion. I have started on the slides. 

Keep posting up things!!

-- i hope the good white snowing continues [:P].

Meeting Time

Guys,,,,,,,,

We are meeting on WEDNESDAY after 2:30 HCI lecture......Library 1st floor (hopefully if we get any computer free) ....

We will meetup in the lecture.....

Please gather some information about user research.....

Thanks...

Meeting

Will post meeting date, time and place .....

So please keep checking your blog Guys......

Focus Group

As we've been instructed. For user research Group Discussion/Focus will be quite effective for this coursework. Focus Group has to be conducted by a moderator who has the printed questions and proper data gathering means(sound/Video/Paper Recording) etc. I am doing this discussion with my flat mates. 

I am posting a youtube clip. 

Chintan

User Research

Interview Questions

1.  Who do you live with?

2. How do you communicate with your members of your house/flat?

3. How effective is it?

4. Are there any drawbacks with your communication system?

5. How would you improve your system?

I have asked members of my family these questions and most of them communicate with each through the means of a mobile phone. 

This is their only means of  communicating with each other.  

User Research

In order to complete my user research i am going to interview members of my family in order to find out what are the user requirements for the home messaging system. 

I am going to ask questions that are related to the messaging system such as:

Is there any special user requirements  from the user?

Who is going to use the system?

How would user interact with the system?

Where would you like to have the messaging system?

How big would you like the messaging system to be?

Do you want it to be only home based or would you like to have the option take it out when go on road?

Do you think that only one messaging system is enough for the whole house?

If not, how many would you like to have?

Would you like the different messaging systems to be linked with each other in order to share information?

How would you like to input data? 

How would you like to get the outcome from the messaging system?

How would you like to recognize that the system is sending you message but not another member from family?

Would you like to have User name and Password?

Do you want to chose a different color in order to recognize your messages? 

COME ON GROUP, WE CAN GET GOOD MARKS FOR THIS COURSEWORK

Home messaging system

User Research:-

For this assignment.. each member of the team is looking and getting information from the users in their living circumstances.. They will use different kind of methods to gain information which we have studied in previous term/semester... ie.. Questionnaire, Scenarios, Personas..etc...

Every team member had individual user groups to target..my target user group was Families...

As i am living with my family, which consists of 4 people .Everyone in the family are working and hardly get time to talk with each other because of the busy schedule..I asked my family about their views for a home messaging system. Different kind of questions were asked.....

Q.What kind of features they would like to have in the device.. ?

Q.Which different places they would like to have the system to be placed..?

Q.What should be the size of a home messaging system... ?

Q.What kind of a home messaging system they prefer, Audio , Video or both?

My next step would be to prepare a questionnaire and get more ideas about a home messaging system from other families nearby where I live.

(for fun:- Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy...!!! I am the first one to post the details .... :-)

Wake up guys...take an initiative....)

Home Messaging System

..coming soon

HCI Project

Group Members:-

Chintan
Syed
Anushree
Ivaylo
Tanzila
Chris