Questionnaire

Here is our questionnaire that we presented to our users after we had designed the prototype. From here we could recieve feedback so we could go away again and refine our requirements. Unfortunately blogger.com isn't particularly friendly with layout so heres the word file, that we actually presented to the user. Below is the contents, just not particularly formatted well of that file.

Questionnaire




1) Which size of screen do you think is suitable for the product to display relevant information back to the user?

A B C D

Additional Comments:


2) Which device has buttons which you feel more comfortable with?

Mobile Phone TV HI-FI Microwave


3) How would you prefer the device to be powered?

Batteries Chargeable Battery (mobile) Solar Power (calculator)


4) Which is the heaviest weight you would be comfortable carrying?

An Orange Bottle of Milk A Bag of Sugar

Additional Comments:


5) Which style menus would you prefer?

Horizontal sliding (iPod) (1) Vertical Sliding (Mobile Device) (2)


6) Would you have a problem with force feedback? (rumble pack, loud beep, flashing screen)

Yes No

Additional Comments


7) Picture yourself scanning an object, would you need one hand or two hands to manoeuvre the device?

One Hand Two Hands


8) Would you like extra functionality if it could be plugged into a computer?

Yes No


9) Would you follow the advice given if you had to eat food which you didn’t like, to keep in touch with your dietary needs?

Yes No


10) Would you follow the advice given if you had to eat food which you did not prefer, to keep in touch with your dietary needs?

Yes No


11) Would you be prepared to use the device daily so that it can store an accurate record of daily intake?

Yes No


12) How useful do you think our product would be in the home environment?

I would use it daily and it could help improve my diet a lot.
I would try to use it daily in the hope that it might improve my diet.
I would use it for a week or so to test how useful it is.
I don’t think I’d use it much in the home.


Additional Comments on the Device:

Meeting 27/2/07

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