High fidelity and low fidelity !

Iam reminding the difference between high fidelity and low fidelity. The different between high fidelity and low fidelity is because a high-fidelity prototype is computer-based, and usually allows realistic (mouse-keyboard) user interactions. whereas, a low-fidelity prototype is usually paper-based, could possibly be a series of sketches or printouts, and does not allow realistic user interactions. If i compared both of them low fidelity is easy where high fidelity is hard but the user can entry the fields and test it for real.

Comunication skills!

The material of our presentation should be concise, to the point and tell an interesting story. In addition to the obvious things like content and visual aids, the following are just as important as the audience will be subconsciously taking them in:
Voice - how you say it is as important as what we say
Body language - a subject in its own right and something about which much has been written and said. In essence, our body movements express what our attitudes and thoughts really are. You might like to check out this web page
Appearance - first impressions influence the audience's attitudes to you. Don’t wear hat, hood and so on but let dress appropriately like normal dress.

The material of your presentation should be concise, to the point and tell an interesting story. In addition to the obvious things like content and visual aids, the following are just as important as the audience will be subconsciously taking them in:
Your voice - how you say it is as important as what you say
Body language - a subject in its own right and something about which much has been written and said. In essence, your body movements express what your attitudes and thoughts really are. You might like to check out this web page
Appearance - first impressions influence the audience's attitudes to you. Dress appropriately for the occasion.
Delivery
Speak clearly. Don't shout or whisper - judge the acoustics of the room.
Don't rush, or talk deliberately slowly. Be natural - although not conversational.
Deliberately pause at key points - this has the effect of emphasising the importance of a particular point you are making.
To make the presentation interesting, change your delivery, but not to obviously, eg:
speed
pitch of voice
Use your hands to emphasise points but don't indulge in to much hand waving. People can, over time, develop irritating habits. Ask colleagues occasionally what they think of your style.
Look at the audience as much as possible, but don't fix on an individual - it can be intimidating. Pitch your presentation towards the back of the audience, especially in larger rooms.
Don't face the display screen behind you and talk to it. Other annoying habits include:
Standing in a position where you obscure the screen. In fact, positively check for anyone in the audience who may be disadvantaged and try to accommodate them.
Avoid moving about too much. Pacing up and down can unnerve the audience, although some animation is desirable.
Keep an eye on the audience's body language. Know when to stop and also when to cut out a piece of the presentation.

Final layout of the system

(Due to Prototype II)
As you all know we are doing the semi-real system of the homemess for our last prototype.
After I finished the coding, debugging and errors solving, this is the final layout of the system.

The final presentation!

As we know this is the final presentation so everyone will be on fire tomorrow. we should put all our effort, knowledge and demonstrate step by step how carried out the prototype and evaluation. We shouldnt do lots of writing in our presentation so the audience will get bored to read because i remember one of our presentation which we had lots of writing and no picture and our audience was so bored to read out what is in ur presnsation, not only read but some audience was yawning how bored it was our presentation. For that reason our bullets point should limited and text. Moreover, we should have more picture to make excitement and related to the topic.

We should keep simple and we should use the font that its been used in presentation whic are Arial & arial black , vernada, sans serif and Times new roman.

"Remember" we should sparkle and deliver step by step.

Presentation tips

Last thing before our meeting guys, I think we should ensure that our last presentation is our best this year. We need to share the knowledge we have gained from this module, by putting it into practise in our final presentation. I found this video on youtube that I thought might help us to prepare better for the presentation, please check out what Darren Le Croix has to say about good presentation and let me know if you find it will be useful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFpOin0j90Q&feature=related


Thanks, Justina Prokop

Prototyping perfecting (Heuristics)

Guys, perfecting our protoype is vital and I have found the perfect explanations of the heuristics that we have to follow.

List of the 9 Heuristics we have to cover: (Serengul suggested that we leave out the 10th heristic (help page))

1. Speak the users' language. I feel we can do this by using words, phrases, and concepts which we feel are familiar to the user. Ensuring that we present information in a natural and logical order for the users to understand.
2. Be Consistent - Indicate similar concepts through identical terminology and graphics. Adhere to uniform conventions for layout, formatting, typefaces, labeling, etc.
3. Minimize the users' memory load. Take advantage of recognition rather than recall. Do not force users to remember key information across documents.
4. Build flexible and efficient systems. Accommodate a range of user sophistication and diverse user goals. Provide instructions where useful. Lay out screens so that frequently accessed information is easily found.
5. Design aesthetic and minimalist systems. Create visually pleasing displays. Eliminate information which is irrelevant or distracting.
6. Use chunking. Write material so that documents are short and contain exactly one topic. Do not force the user to access multiple documents to complete a single thought.
7. Provide progressive levels of detail. Organize information hierarchically, with more general information appearing before more specific detail. Encourage the user to delve as deeply as needed, but to stop whenever sufficient information has been received.
8. Give navigational feedback. Facilitate jumping between related topics. Allow the user to determine her/his current position in the document structure. Make it easy to return to an initial state.
9. Don't lie to the user. Eliminate erroneous or misleading links. Do not refer to missing information.

Urgent

Hey guys.
Please let me know, that we are meeting up tomorrow??
Thanks Justina

yes i know that we had some problems with our last system so this time we will see our mistakes and improve our system according to user evaluation.
And also when we meet today we need to go for user evaluation ...test some user to see if their is any mistakes with our new system so we can improve it on time.

My own suggestion!

According to the evaluation we discovered that our first prototype is not good as we thought.Also we found out that the navigation wasn't the right place. Play button was missing in the music player. There were three types of keyboard which confuse the user. Moreover, some of the user declared that the system isn't user friendly on the other hand some user said that the system is easy to use.

Based on our evaluation we have to come out a good design which means a system that work aesthetically, functionally and commercially, improving people’s lives and making the smallest possible impact on the planet. Not only a good design but also full of creativity ideas and innovation that exploits the users. A system that all type of user can uses no matter if the are familiar with computers or not. In addition, we shouldn’t forgot in our system the word “ simplicity “.

So team blogger what do you think of my suggestions .

Prototype 2

hello everyone!

I am reminding you that this is the last presentation so we have to put all our efforts and all the data we have found in the evaluation.

hi

hello guys just wanted to remind you that we need to work hard for our last presentation so we can be better than previous ones ok try to post your ideas on blog.thx

What is evaluation?

­Systematic approach to assess the design, implementation, and utility of programs.
­Utility = usefulness, worth, or quality.


•Who are the users?
•Who are the evaluators?
•What are the limiting factors?

DECISIONS:


What type of evaluation? (output or outcome)
If an outcome evaluation, what client change will you be measuring?
2. When to collect data? (evaluation strategies).
3. How will you collect data? (data collection methods)
4. Who to include in the evaluation? (census or sample).

I'm putting information about evaluation..

What is evaluation?
Something you do at the end of a project to show it works… so you can publish it.
Part of the design-build-evaluate iterative design cycle.
A way of defining a field.
A way a discipline validates the knowledge it creates.
A reason papers get rejected.

We can put these kind of informations.
Who are the users?
Who are the evaluators?
What are the limiting factors?

I'm trying to searching the most important information about evaluation...

Two main types of evaluation:
-Formative evaluation is done at different stages of development to check
that the product meets users' needs
-Summative evaluation assesses the quality of a finished product

What to evaluate
-Iterative design & evaluation is a continuous
process that examines:
–Early ideas for conceptual model
–Early prototypes of the new system
–Later, more complete prototypes
Designers need to check that they
understand users' requirements

When to evaluate
Throughout the design
From the first descriptions, sketches etc. of user needs through to the final product
Design proceeds through iterative cycles of: Design – test ­redesign
Evaluation is a key ingredient for a
successful design

prototype

In our prototype we should have a help button to answer all the questions because sometime users have problems to navigate the system so if there is any help button than user knows where to go.......and according to our research with the private messages we should create a member list so everyone who lives in the house can have their own inbox to see their private messages.

My idea!

because there are some useful points like grouping, hierarchy relationship

hi

hello everyone , just wanted to remind you guys before we do the final version of prototype we need to see the prototype lecture slides

Thoughtful design !

Remember everyone our prototype should be very simple and easy to use and pleasing to the eye " Attention". A design that has a well thought out design and functionality. A creative design, thoughtful and really understands the importance of communication on refrigerators or anywhere else while making fun and innovative . All in all, what do you think about these ideas of creativeness?

Powerpoint slides

Hi guys,

This chapters is talking about the prototype step so we should readthis chapters its related and its has useful points based on HCI terminology

http://www.id-book.com/downloads/Chapter_11_ID2e_slides.ppt#306,3,Prototyping and construction

just an example everyone...

Prototype design

This is my deisgn

thats the calender and time, with the memo,reminder button etc

interface

here is just an example of an interface its not to clear though.

for some reason its not rotating  to its original position.

Hello guys after all our findings and research , i came up with an idea how our design will look like and the functionality. So it will be a touch screen system as you see in that picture , their will be some interactive button on the left hand side and a calender in the middle and 4 buttons and the end.Please do have a look on that design and if you dont like it or any suggestions so do let me know so we can improve it.

If someone cant see the pictures properly ask me to send it to your mails .

Thanks

My own suggestions of the technical functions

Technical functions:

Connect with home phone (through in-wall telephone lines / wi-fi ( Skype-like technology))

• Could contact other homemates through home-sms (currently avaliable technology)
  

Would have its telephone number (home phone number)

• To leave message from any mobilephones/ set to particular mobilephone numbers
  
• Assign different similar numbers for homemates, or name recognising for sms (due to usage of private messages or any other private interacts between homemates)
  

Some small features:

• Showing missed calls reminder in welcome screen
• No built-in server needed ( just needed for extra internet browsing in the main device)
• No portable devices needed (homemates can send messages using their own mobilephones through the system)
• Reminders could be set to send to homemates' mobilephones so that they won't need to check the device so often
• GUI (Graphic User Interface)
• Touch screen
• Could create own profile/password/public password
• For dropping notes or leave messages: touch screen keyboard/ whiteboard/ voice/ video
• For profile pictures / files importing: USB port, connect with personal computers (LAN) (memory/HDD built-in should be avaliable for these functions)

Extra recommending functions:

Phonebook / phone function (speakers , microphone built-in)

hi

Hello guys by tomorrow i will post my idea about how the system should look like according to the data we gathered .
thanks

Hi guys I came up with these ideas (prototype)... Let me know what you think?

Justyna Prokop

Home Messaging System

A computer terminal (a laptop or desktop). The computer should be where everybody goes i.e. (the kitchen). A screen could be used a “home communication device”. Messages could be typed in for any person in the house by selecting their name from the front screen.
Unread messages could be displayed when anyone comes near the computer by means of a “movement detector” on the computer i.e. “message for John”. Messages would only be displayed if not read before either on computer or read a sms.
Messages could also be automatically sent to mobile telephones by sms. This would ensure, that messages are received despite not being at home for some days due to travel etc.
The movement detector could also be set up, so that a “voice” sound alert would be started when someone walked by. This is considered to be too imposing, however as the “voice” could not distinguish who the person was, so all passes by would receive an alert for all unread messages.
Also for blind people a voice alert could be included, but on their own terminal area, which has Braille in their own bedroom.

Focus group Transcript

Focus group with 4 university students

Environment
rented house with 4 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, living room

Conversation content

Hayat: Hello

A: Hi

Hayat: We are gonna ask you some questions about we are doing our home messaging so we need to find out if we leaving the problem what information do you show. So could you tell me are you all living together?

A: Yah

Hayat: So you are four living together. Amm.. what type of ..amm.. when you are at home what type of amm.. so you say something you’ll like when you for example if you’re cooking or if you’re like one of them are do you communicate arrr... for example any type of communication

All: Umm..Mobile

Hayat: mobile?

B: Yeh.. text messaging

Hayat: Text messaging…

Justina: What about for example whiteboard or post-it or something. What kind of information there? To message someone, just leave something?

C: Like the…

Justina: You know there maybe something

C: Like the I have to pay some bills and one of my friends they can do it. Or some messages has wrote they received calls, so some people have called you inviting so and so interview or what ever. I might leave out those kinds of messages on the fridge so that they can come and directly see that.

Hayat: So why do you prefer on the fridge like why do you..

Satyam: What kind of information do you put on there?

C: Ahh.. reminder

A: Like text messages, just information like it should be intimated.

C: Then the some kind of bill statement of the bill, payment of the bill.

Hayat: Oh..That was today yah.. end of the month so you need to pay.

B: Yah

Hayat: Ah..okay. Amm… Apart from that, do you use any other messaging like apart from the bill, the cooking, what ‘bout the cleaning stuff

C: Oh yeh

Hayat: Do you have a timetable, how do you know each other like..

C: Weekly

Hayat: Oh weekly… so how do you…

C: We both will be handling the kitchen and they both will handle the bathroom, cleaning the computer and other things of that.

Justina: Is that like you have everything on Saturdays or..?

C: Yah..Sunday

Justina: Sunday

Hayat: Do you work at all?

C: Yes

Hayat: But how if you got a nightsuite for example how do you manage to for example to clean it or to communicate each other?

C: Yeh that’s the reason we put messages on the fridge like when we got to home we still hungry then I got to open the fridge and then I can find the reminder.

Satyam: Next time if you’re hungry I can give you a call.

All:(laughing)

Satyam: How long have you been living together now?

A: Four months

Satyam: Do you have problems with each other?

B: No

C: If we have any problems we’ll discuss

Hayat: How do you discuss together?

C: We’ll sit together and…

A: We’ll argue until … we solve our problems.

Justina: Are you guys friends? Or family maybe?

All: Friends

Justina: And how many people are you currently sharing accommodation with?

All: Four

Satyam: Who pay the bill? Both of them isn’t it? The man officely.

All:(laughing)

Hayat: So what about for example if you wanna go out like outside or play some… go to the gym. How do you connected to… how do you basically communicate to each other?

C: End of the day we’re back from work from uni at night so we sit together and have our dinner. So that we can communicate and make some plans of what we going to do for tomorrow.

Hayat: So when you’re doing those plans, where do you save or write it down?

Satyam: They probably put in the head

All: Yahyahyah

Hayat: Yah I know but when you write it down like for example do you use the diary or something like that?

All: Paper

Hayat: Paper…Okay.

Satyam: That’s ok. Thank you very much…

End

Involved group members: Hayat, Satyam, Justina, Louis(note-taking)

General features of prototyping

General Features of Prototyping

• Enables the designer to quickly build or create examples of :-
• The data entry form
• The menu structure and order
• The dialogue styles
• Error messages
• Should be inexpensive to develop – intention is to discard/modify it
• Should not require programming skills

The advantages of prototypes

The advantages of prototypes

The advantages of prototypes are numerous. For example:

• Prototypes incite criticism from users because they may be low-cost and low-fidelity. If a user is presented with an early version of a system that has required substantial work, he/she is likely to be more reluctant (as well as able) to criticise it.
• Prototypes comply with the wish to show fast results to the client
• Prototypes have the advantage of 'grounding' the discussion during a user session, making the sure the session does not get too much off track.
• Not only can the prototype function as a discussion medium between designer and user but also between the members of the design team. Thus, prototypes may help facilitate work across disciplinary borders, bringing together a disparate team.
• Prototypes make it possible to do usability testing early in the development process.
• Prototypes incite and legalise experimentation as they are inexpensive to alter.
• Prototypes focus on content and functionality and turn attention away from details of graphic design.
• Prototypes make it possible to get a formal approval of the design from both programmers and the client before you proceed to the development stage

Prototype

http://www.hhs.gov/usability/design/prototyping.html

Prototyping

Prototyping
Prototyping is the process of building a model of a system. In terms of an information system, prototypes are employed to help system designers build an information system that intuitive and easy to manipulate for end users. Prototyping is an iterative process that is part of the analysis phase of the systems development life cycle.
During the requirements determination portion of the systems analysis phase, system analysts gather information about the organization's current procedures and business processes related the proposed information system. In addition, they study the current information system, if there is one, and conduct user interviews and collect documentation. This helps the analysts develop an initial set of system requirements.
Prototyping can augment this process because it converts these basic, yet sometimes intangible, specifications into a tangible but limited working model of the desired information system. The user feedback gained from developing a physical system that the users can touch and see facilitates an evaluative response that the analyst can employ to modify existing requirements as well as developing new ones.
Prototyping comes in many forms - from low tech sketches or paper screens(Pictive) from which users and developers can paste controls and objects, to high tech operational systems using CASE (computer-aided software engineering) or fourth generation languages and everywhere in between. Many organizations use multiple prototyping tools. For example, some will use paper in the initial analysis to facilitate concrete user feedback and then later develop an operational prototype using fourth generation languages, such as Visual Basic, during the design stage.

o Some Advantages of Prototyping:
o Reduces development time.
o Reduces development costs.
o Requires user involvement.
o Developers receive quantifiable user feedback.
o Facilitates system implementation since users know what to expect.
o Results in higher user satisfaction.
o Exposes developers to potential future system enhancements.


o Some Disadvantages of Prototyping
o Can lead to insufficient analysis.
o Users expect the performance of the ultimate system to be the same as the prototype.
o Developers can become too attached to their prototypes
o Can cause systems to be left unfinished and/or implemented before they are ready.
o Sometimes leads to incomplete documentation.

There is mine transcript

Interview with Terry Thorpe

Environment

A 3 bedroom apartment with a dedicated entrance from the street outside. Living room kitchen combined in an open plan room. Master bedroom has en-suite bathroom. One other bathroom with shower and bath.

Inhabitants

1 British Man, 1 Polish girl, 1 British girl

Interview with Terry Thorpe

Justyna: Hello my name is Justyna Prokop. I will be interview today my landlord Terry Thorpe. This project is about Home Messaging system, so what I have to do is finding out how communications happend between the people in this house. Now I'm going to interview my landlord.

Justyna: I have in front of me questionnaires, so now I'm gonna ask you some questions. The first question is : Are you currently sharing an accommodation with another person/other people?

Terry: Yes

Justyna: yes ok, Numbers of people sharing the accommodation? Is males or females?

Terry: Its males and females

Justyna: aa ok, Who do you currently share your accommodation with? Is family, friends, fellow students or other?

Terry: Its myself and friends

Justyna: What are the ages of the people currently sharing your accommodation? Is 11-18, 19-25, 25+

Terry: Its two categorize there 19-25 and 25+

Justyna: ok Thanks, the next question is Do you ever share any type of information/communicate with your fellow accommodators, if yes how often? Is daily, weekly, monthly, never?

Terry: Is daily basis

Justyna: What methods do you use to communicate by and display your information/messages? Is White/black board, Pin board, Post-its, Calendar, Other

Terry: no white/black board, what else was there??

Justyna: Pin board, Post-its

Terry: No pin board, Yes is post-its, I uses quite a lot

What else was there?

Justyna: Calendar? And any other?

Terry: No calender

Terry: ok so the Post-its is use quite a lot in fact is the measure method of communication in a household when people around, exception to that if the people not around-like they traveling or they away for couple of days, so we can use sms texting, so thats the exception, but the main method of communication is Post-its (other than verbal communication, like talking to each other). If you don’t want to disturb someone we are using a Post-its for example if I woke up in the morning and I don’t want to wake up anyone, then I write Post-its notes and you stick on the fridge or door, so thats how we mainly do it.

Justyna: Ok thanks for really useful information and the last question is: What type of information do you display? Messages, reminders, requests, any other information?

Terry: is messages, reminders, and request quite a lot, so for example we have a system, that everybody have to clean once a week, like the bean need to be taking out or the floor needs to be moping and the kitchen needs to be clean etc. So we writing down on the Post-its notes and we are sticking on the door or fridge if we are not around. If someone call to someone and this person is not around, so I'm leaving a Post-its notes on this person door. Whats the other thing? Reminders?

Justyna: Yes reminders

Terry: again the same thing if someone forgot clean the kitchen, so I'm writing on the Post-its notes. Upssss sorry about that (he dropped something). Oh yeah I remember one thing someone (the girl) left the kitchen in such a mess, that was salt all over the table, so actually I wrote the message on the table with salt “is so dirty, please clean”...

Justyna: Thanks so much for this kind of information. We gonna use this information for our project. Do you find this communication method satisfactory?

Terry: Yes, but I will improve something better, because the weakness of post it notes is that it is possible for the messages, reminders etc may not get through. The Post it may fall off the door or other surface it was stuck to or the person may not see it. Also sometimes people’s handwriting is not clear. Usually is pretty good way of communication, especially here in this small flat and is only three of us, so its works pretty well. If you leaving with more than 5 people I'm thinking you need other method of communication, because propobely might not working. What I want to say about sms-texting is fantastic method, because nowadays everybody have mobile phones and everybody is using mobile phones.

Justyna: I asked this kind of questions, because we want to see there is any other way to do it the communication system better. How we can improve the system could be done better.

Terry: I will be so interesting what you finding are..

Justyna: Aaa ok I will let you know in the end of my project, so that will be around 3 weeks time. {laughing}

Thanks you very much for your interview

Terry: my pleasure, good luck

Justyna: thanks

There is some information about prototype

Prototyping is a method used by designers to acquire feedback from users about future designs. Prototypes are similar to mock-ups , but are usually not as low-fidelity as mock-ups and appear slightly later in the design process.

Prototypes may be horizontal or vertical: A horizontal prototype appears to have a very broad range of the intended future features, but only very little of the actual functionality of the features is implemented. For example, a horizontal prototype of a computer application may have a very well-developed and broad user interface (the horizontal dimension) but not much of the underlying functionality is implemented (the vertical dimension, i.e. the deeper layers of the software). Correspondingly, a vertical prototype only has very few features, which on the other hand are almost fully implemented or at least so-called "walking skeletons".

Prototype

Hello guys i do need a reply from you guys , we need to start thinking about our prototype . Are you guys coming tomorrow to HCI lab ? reply

Prototype

Hello guys we need to meet up asap to discuss about our prototype. Please do reply to me Thanks

Transcript

Hello guys just a reminder that we need to do some transcript till friday, i hope to see you in lab.
Thx
Satyam

Everybody we have to meet up on Friday moring at 9.30am...

Hayat I have sent you the power point presentation..You can check and add on some staff...

saty im going to send the recording of the interview to the team blogger email address, i sent you the recording for the other thing yesterday.... sorry about yesterday aswell..

persona questionaire

Interview with Robert Obize

Housing arrangement 

Its a four bedroom flat, with a side entrance from the main road.

1 bathroom combined with toilet.

open plan kicthen and living room.

who do you live with?

4 men

what age are they in?

aged between 21 - 22

what communication techniques do you use to to keep contact with you're flat mates.?

main form is text message and phone conversations or face to face speech, notes never used.

what is the subject of communication?

the subject of communication is mainly on cleaning the house, or will there be someone be at home to collect a package, arrangements for household activities, messages from friends who call, message from landlord regarding house changes.

Disadvantage of this system?

everyone is always busy so we don't get to see each other all the time to tell someone to do do something.

we are all students and our phones are usually switched off during lectures, so we miss allot of calls. 

notes are usually not acknowledged as we all just walk past it.text messages are ok but , we tend to get a lot of text messages

and forget to delete them so our mail boxes are full.

Advantages of a new system? 

an improvement to the new system would be to use an electric keyboard with a screen this so anyone that lives in the household can come and log in with a password for personal messages. hard drive connected to allow storage for information. An alarm alert system to let the other house members no that there is a message waiting for them. this should either be kept in the passage way or the kitchen living room space.

Hi everyone

Are we gonna meet before presentation on friday?
we should do some final organise

I analyzed the focus group...

Interview with focus group

Environment
They live in 4 bedroom house

Inhabitants
2 Asian men and 2 Asian girls

Age groups
4 people 19 – 25 years old

Frequency of communication
Daily communication with the other friends. Also weekly communication, every Sunday about cleaning jobs.

Form of communication
Timetables are used to communicate between the group who is doing what on a particular day. “Post It” notes on the fridge also used on a daily basis. Messages are written on pieces of paper. Weekly communications on responsibilities for cleaning the house and who owes money on the payment of bills.

Subject of communication
“Post It” notes and paper notes are used as reminders for work to be done by others (cleaning, evening activities), as messages to inform others of phone calls, messages from friends, arrangements made etc. The Timetable is the Master method of communicating who is responsible at what time for jobs to be done.


Weaknesses of communication methods
The weakness of post it notes is that it is possible for the messages to go missing or they are overlooked. The same thing may happen for pieces of paper. The Timetable sometimes suffers from a lack of room if there is a lot of information or changes for a specific day.
Improvements
The Timetable needs to have more space when it is needed. Post It notes are too easily lost and so a more permanent solution is needed e.g. computer messages?

I analyzed my data-interview (landlord).

Interview with Terry Thorpe

Environment
A 3 bedroom apartment with a dedicated entrance from the street outside. Living room kitchen combined in an open plan room. Master bedroom has en-suite bathroom. One other bathroom with shower and bath.

Inhabitants
1 British Man, 1 Polish girl, 1 British girl

Age groups
2 people 19 – 25 years old, 1 person 25 years ++

Frequency of communication
Daily communication by the landlord with the other residents.

Form of communication
Main form of communication is spoken word. SMS texting and “Post It” notes also used on a daily basis.

Subject of communication
“Post It” notes are used as reminders for work to be done by others, as messages to inform others of phone calls, messages from friends, arrangements made etc.

Weaknesses of communication methods
The weakness of post it notes is that it is possible for the messages, reminders etc may not get through. The Post it may fall off the door or other surface it was stuck to or the person may not see it. Also sometimes people’s handwriting is not clear.


Improvements
Improvements would be a method which uses a keyboard so that variations in handwriting quality are avoided and a central place where communications may be picked up so that all messages are definitely collected. An “alert” system which would serve to tell people that a message is waiting would also be a very good improvement. This could perhaps be an audible alert when someone passes by. This could be in a central location for example the kitchen which everyone uses.

How we are going to analyze data?

hello teamblogger, we have to concern how we are going to analyze data , well i think we should summarize data gather and collect our purpose of ser research, for example what we are trying to find out in data. i was reading some research on data qualitative so analyse is long process and as we know we dont have a time therefore we need to do a relevant and accurate techniques to demonstrate us the result on the data gather. by doing this what do you think we should o it ?

hello hayat i have send a some important information please have look and give me feedback.......

There is so more informations...

Advantages and disadvantages of focus groups
Advantages:
• Like open-ended interviews, the participants are able to raise their
own issues that they feel are important.
• Unlike one-on-one interviews, focus groups allow the interviewer to be
less intrusive, and discussion can take its own direction – people are
often more candid and spontaneous in a group discussion.
• Discussion among focus group participants can generate new
information and raise new issues providing a range of responses with
useful information.
Disadvantages:
• Focus groups should be run by a skilled facilitator and often by an
outsider to the program.
• Since focus groups work best with 4 to 10 people, organizing groups
and motivating people to attend may be difficult.
• The group dynamic may silence some, especially dissenting opinions.
• May be expensive and time-consuming to conduct and transcribe, and
require either a trained note taker or transcription of tapes.
• Usually not quantitative, and usually not generalizable samples.

Hey I find out some informations about interviews etc.

1. An interview is "a formal face-to-face meeting, especially, one arranged for the assessment of the qualifications of an applicant, as for employment or admission.... A conversation, as one conducted by a reporter, in which facts, or statements are elicited from another." (The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition)
   The interview is the primary technique for information gathering during the systems analysis phases of a development project. It is a skill which must be mastered by every analyst. The interviewing skills of the analyst determine what information is gathered, and the quality and depth of that information. Interviewing, observation, and research are the primary tools of the analyst.
   The interview is a specific form of meeting or conference, and is usually limited to two persons, the interviewer and the interviewee. In special circumstances there may be more than one interviewer or more than one interviewee in attendance. In these cases there should still be one primary interviewer and one primary interviewee.
   What Are the Goals of the Interview?
   At each level, each phase, and with each interviewee, an interview may be conducted to:
   1.Gather information on the company
   2.Gather information on the function
   3.Gather information on processes or activities
   4.Uncover problems
   5.Conduct a needs determination
   6.Verification of previously gathered facts
   7.Gather opinions or viewpoints
   8.Provide information
   9.Obtain leads for further interviews
   Focus Groups – These are used to obtain different reactions to one topic. Focus groups generate synergy provided the participants are at the same technical or organizational level.

frank

aged 22

works for promotion company

uses calender to schedule daily activities

last used calender to record a meeting with work company

set goals, gather and analyze an identify name and details.

the user: technical requirements

design

goals

organize data - try to understand the person as an individual and not a group, so find out about history, goals,interests, and relationship with current product.

these will help illustrate my persona

give name - personal details - age - gender - family - job

what are the top usability needs

how do they write down their information

what are their goals

ill try and get a picture to to illustrate a story of how the persona will use the application.

these are just notes to help me create my person...

Meeting on monday

Hello Guys just wanted to ask you , is anyone coming on monday because i am going to be there at 4 Pm please do let me know so we can sit together and do some work.Thanks

my msn username is ademosu90@hotmail.co.uk

Group announcement!

Everyone of our group should do one persona and scenario and bring the next group meeting on monday @ 12:30 pm to 1:30pm, 2:30pm to 3:30pm.  

Information about focus group techinques

Description
Focus groups are small-group discussions that give in-depth information and views on a specific topic. 
Potential uses
Focus groups are often a helpful addition to resident surveys as they will allow any emerging issues to be explored in more depth and in a less restrictive way.
How it works
Focus groups need to be kept relatively small so that everyone has the opportunity to contribute and there is scope for discussions between participants. Normally, they should involve no more than 10 people.
We should identify someone to lead the group discussion. Agree a discussion guide in advance. Make sure it is simple, and draws out the issues we are keen to explore.
Often we need to hold more than one focus group around a topic and make sure equalities groups are represented in the focus groups.

To run a focus group, you need:
• A group leader
• A venue
• Incentives for participants
• Refreshments (if appropriate)
• Time to organise the event

How what we Going to analyze Data gather?

I am concerned after we have done the focus groups and interviews but how we are going to carry out? what type of techniques are we going to use it? 

Useful website

http://www.usability.gov/- this is a useful website and its tell us step by step what we are going to do it
http://www.id-book.com/index.php- This link is the book is online version so read chapter 7, 8, 9 and 10 as serengul said

Useful website

http://www.usability.gov/- this is a useful website and its tell us step by step what we are going to do it
http://www.id-book.com/index.php- This link is the book is online version so read chapter 7, 8, 9 and 10 as serengul said

What do I need to know about users?

Data gathering techniques
There are so many data techniques each one has a purpose to employ for it. So in our user research we will use two or three methods which are

Focus Groups
Individual interviews
Questionnaires

Personas
We are going to do two personas therefore we should do focus groups, individual interviews, contextual interviews, surveys. However we have done the focus groups and individual interviews and I think these two methods are enough for the personas. Creating personas in our user research are very important and to do we will have a better understanding of customers. I think all of us have a better knowledge what characteristics are included in a persona?

A persona contains
· Name and picture
· demographics (age, education, ethnicity, family status)
· job title and major responsibilities
· goals and tasks in relation to your site
· environment (physical, social, technological)
· a quote that sums up what matters most to the persona with relevance for your site

We can make up the person name but not person picture so the picture has to be real.


Scenario
Scenario is a description of a person’s interaction with a system. It help focus to design efforts on the users requirements. Therefore we need to do a scenario.

Hey...I've done the interview on Sunday. I hope so is working on my digital camera... Justyna Prokop

Another questionnaires!

Which of these following reminders do you prefer and why?

White/black board

Pin board

Post-its

Calendar

Voice recording

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How did you find it when you use it?

Easy to use

Reusable

Quick

Fun

Cheaper

Attachable

Easy way to manage your busy life

Reminders of task or activities

What type of information do you display?

Appointments Birthday reminders Meetings

Coursework deadline Activities Interests

Daily chores

Hayat Hassan

Sorry Hayat I can't come to meeting today because of the snow

Group Discussion

We are going to do questionnaire and interview?

Questionnaire:

-to get clearly information
- to give time to think about
-short time of gathering information

Interview:
- freely discussion
- let to talk
-listen to them
- Deeply questions

After using these method we are trying to solve and how to contribute to find the answer?

how we are going to analyse the data gathering?

Group Meeting on Monday

questionaire suggestion

1. Who do u live with?

2. If you are living with family, how many members in your family?

3. Which location do you prefer to place the notice board?

4. What is your occupation?

5. Do you use a notice board in your home? If yes what do you usually leave on it?

...

Dear serengul and group members

serengul this is michael from your friday lesson, unfortunatley i will not be able to make it to tomorrows lesson. as i have a delivery for a new computer and have to be present for the delivery as my last delivery was stolen by someone else.. im very sorry as i am making an effort not to miss any of you're classes, i have put my questionaire suggestions on eblogger for you to see which i did with my group on wednesday.... see you all next week.

Michael

Questionnaire

Questionaire Satyam
User Research
Q1)Name: Today's date:

Sex: 􀁔 Female 􀁔 Male


Background
1. Ethnic origin (check 􀀖only one):
􀁔 British
􀁔 Black 􀁔 European
􀁔 Asian 􀁔 American Indian
􀁔 Other: __________________________

Q)Do you live with?
􀁔 Family 􀁔 Friends 􀁔 Unknown people
Q) Do you feel comfortable living with other people?
Q) Do you have any problems living with unknown people? Family? Friends?
Q)Do you work or study?
Q)Do you work part time full-time, shift work or office hours?
Q)If you work how do you cooperate with your house mates?
Q)Do you have a time table for your daily routine?
Q)Have you got any type of information system at home?
Q) Do you prefer electronic or manual board?

Justina Prokop: Questionnaire suggestions

1. Are you currently sharing an accommodation with another person/other people?

Yes No

2. Who do you currently share your accommodation with?

None Family Friends Fellow Students Other

3. How many people are you currently sharing an accommodation with?

0 1-3 4-5 6+

4. What are the ages of the people currently sharing your accommodation? (please tick more than one if appropriate)

None 0-10 years 11-18 years 19-25 years 25+ years

5. Do you ever share any type of information/communicate with your fellow accommodators, if yes how often?

Daily Weekly Monthly Never

6. What methods do you use to communicate by and display your information/messages?

White/black board Pin board Post-its Calendar Other

7. What type of information do you display?

Messages Reminders Requests Other Information

SOME OF MY QUESTIONS
MICHAEL ADEMOSU

1. Do you work, If so what job sector do you work in.etc I.T, Retail, Sales.

2. How often do you update ure weekly calender.

3. How do you fit you’re work time around your daily routine.

4. If you live with other people, how much of the tv time do you control the remote?

5.

Hi everybody. I checked few days ago our blog and is working :) regards to everyone  Justina 

HI everyone!

Hi, I am checking if my blog is working :D

Testing for own acc post

luise do it now

hehe

Hello guys how are you? i hope ur life is going well........

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