Aims
- To encourage more posting on the blogs
- To make sure that the questionnaire is complete by persona's
- To discuss the next step in our user-centred design process
It has been a while since anything has been posted, i know we have a lot to do but we are now behind in our project. It has been noted that we should all be posting at least a couple of times a week only relevant material though.
The questionnaire has now been on the blog for well over a week, we discussed the need to complete this and I will analysis the data after putting it into graphs. We discussed the questions themselves and i still felt that the question on weight was a bit hazy but the others couldn't think of any other question to ask about the weight of the device. We decided that everyone should fill in the questionnaire by Wednesday evening latest and that it shouldn't be posted on the blog as it is useless information.
Finally we discussed where to go next in the design process. It was a case of discussing doing a case analysis using our persona's, also Dave said that he would be willing to try and create a prototype using Netbeans mobile device program. Shaun is going to come up with a design of our prototypes hardware as his previous designs using a CAD package were excellent. Simon will continue doing market research to see if that can aid our final prototype design, especially focusing on the graphical user interface side. Tris is going to start the case analysis of the persona and finally I'm going to analyse the data from the questionnaires and see if there are any similarities or a large contrast in answers.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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
- 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
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Meeting 20th Feb
Due to unforeseen circumstances the meeting yesterday was cancelled as Simon was ill and some of the other group members hadn't quite finished their prototype ideas.
Tris, Dave And myself decided to have a mini meeting still looking at some of the aims of the meeting and tried to address them. The prototype could not be discussed in great detail as we felt it necessary to have all group members present as we felt that finalising the prototype would take ideas from everyone. The questionnaire also couldn't really be started as it is going to be based on decided for the final prototype.
Although we did get around to allocating a few different tasks for this week with Dave actually finalising the problem definition, Tris will be doing the questionnaire when we have discussed the different prototypes of our product. I decided that i will create a more defined task analysis to help our product solve the tasks at hand.
We will meet tomorrow to discuss the different prototype design so that we can press on with finalising the product.
Tris, Dave And myself decided to have a mini meeting still looking at some of the aims of the meeting and tried to address them. The prototype could not be discussed in great detail as we felt it necessary to have all group members present as we felt that finalising the prototype would take ideas from everyone. The questionnaire also couldn't really be started as it is going to be based on decided for the final prototype.
Although we did get around to allocating a few different tasks for this week with Dave actually finalising the problem definition, Tris will be doing the questionnaire when we have discussed the different prototypes of our product. I decided that i will create a more defined task analysis to help our product solve the tasks at hand.
We will meet tomorrow to discuss the different prototype design so that we can press on with finalising the product.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
HCI Meeting - 13/02/07
Aims of Meeting - 13 Feb 07
Meeting:
Following on from a previous meeting a few weeks ago about the different product ideas. It is required that we chose a final product quickly because of the time restrictions. It is also necessary to start prototyping our idea this week so will be added as a goal for next week.
Having been actively posting on the blog it was decided that we would rule out the Remote Security System and the Interactive Soap (see Product Decision). There was a little bit of discussion on the rest of the ideas with myself in favour of the Interactive Walking Guide and the majority of the group in favour of the Barcode Scanner Food Intake Device but, instead of making the Food Nutrition Device a barcode reader we decided to take a step back and allow for it to be any hardware so that we could come up with the better solution.
Now requirements needed to be defined for this product idea but, these have to be broad as we decided that a goal for next week was for each member to come up with a refined set of requirements in the form of a prototype. This would allow us to merge ideas to create the best possible solutions to the problems that are encountered based on the 'broad' requirements. We wrote the requirement on the whiteboard so that a picture could be taken (see Requirements for Designated Product)
Another one of our aims was to create a questionnaire but after a lengthy discussion it was unanimously decided that we wouldn't create a questionnaire just yet as we have a list of broad requirements which will be expanded by us. After the expansion with addition of different features we felt would the best time to ask questions and change aspects of our design based on the general user opinion.
Our final point was about the personas. We have decided to each edit the persona based on the post - Thinking About Personas by dave. We have all decided to go away and add more specific information to our personas.
For next weeks meeting:
- To all agree on final product idea.
- To define a set of 'broad' requirements for chosen product.
- To create a questionnaire based on our final product choice which helps define more specific requirements.
- A review of the personnas.
Meeting:
Following on from a previous meeting a few weeks ago about the different product ideas. It is required that we chose a final product quickly because of the time restrictions. It is also necessary to start prototyping our idea this week so will be added as a goal for next week.
Having been actively posting on the blog it was decided that we would rule out the Remote Security System and the Interactive Soap (see Product Decision). There was a little bit of discussion on the rest of the ideas with myself in favour of the Interactive Walking Guide and the majority of the group in favour of the Barcode Scanner Food Intake Device but, instead of making the Food Nutrition Device a barcode reader we decided to take a step back and allow for it to be any hardware so that we could come up with the better solution.
Now requirements needed to be defined for this product idea but, these have to be broad as we decided that a goal for next week was for each member to come up with a refined set of requirements in the form of a prototype. This would allow us to merge ideas to create the best possible solutions to the problems that are encountered based on the 'broad' requirements. We wrote the requirement on the whiteboard so that a picture could be taken (see Requirements for Designated Product)
Another one of our aims was to create a questionnaire but after a lengthy discussion it was unanimously decided that we wouldn't create a questionnaire just yet as we have a list of broad requirements which will be expanded by us. After the expansion with addition of different features we felt would the best time to ask questions and change aspects of our design based on the general user opinion.
Our final point was about the personas. We have decided to each edit the persona based on the post - Thinking About Personas by dave. We have all decided to go away and add more specific information to our personas.
For next weeks meeting:
- Create prototypes of Food Nutrition Device.
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