Aims
- Discuss questionnaire design
- Discuss prototype AGAIN!
- Discuss personas (after Monday's lecture)
The meeting today was rather short in comparison to other meetings this is mainly down to the fact that different people are undergoing different tasks which meant that there was much discussion. The discussion started off with the personas coming up again in discussion this was due to Russell showing us his personas on Monday. In general it was felt that a little more work all round should be done to help improve our personas and thus be able to do a very detailed user analysis of our system as well as the questionnaire.
Tris this week designed a questionnaire which we all had our opinions on most of the questions were relevant to the project. One question on his original questionnaire was:
What weight would you be comfortable in holding for a period of time?
250g 1Kg 3.5 Kg
As we are aiming the questionnaire at the elderly it was felt that the measurements given in metric should also be shown in imperial measurements. Then Someone suggested changing the question to include real world object like a bag of sugar as people will find this easier to think about.
The other main issue this week was the prototype design again! This is an on going process with new ideas added. Last week Shaun was asked to find examples of handles that could be used on the device. The ideas he came up with / found were not too bad but we are still in discussion about the actual size of the device and until this in finalised the decision isn't going to be made.
Goals For Next Week
- Finalise Questionnaire
- Re-evaluate personas
- Market research (Simon)
- Research into HCI techniques to make sure we doing the right things
