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| Showtimes Experience Diary Study | ||
| Project Scope: | ||
| Upon review of P.W. Jordan's Designing Pleasurable Products
book, choose, perform, and present one usability study method for a
newer software product. |
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| Project Assessment: | ||
| While David was familiar with experience
diaries, their concept, and their perceived benefits, this was his first
time he had conducted an actual study using them. David was fortunate
to have a few friends that (1) had iPhones, (2) were movie-goers, and (3)
were willing to help him out with this class project, which made him
appreciate the difficult task of getting proper test subjects for a given
application. Had his friends not had iPhones and were not comfortable
trying out strange iPhone applications, his task to recruit users might have
been more difficult, which demonstrates the true need for compiling proper
user profiles, even for small projects such as this. Overall, this was an
excellent project to get David's feet wet with conducting experience diary
studies. He has been fortunate to conduct experience diaries in at
least one other academic project, and is quite confident in conducting them,
if the usability study warrants such a task. |
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| Involvement: | ||
| This was an individual project. David had
friends whom enjoyed going to movies, and one had just downloaded the
Showtimes iPhone application. Both volunteered to help him with his
project. David created a basic daily diary submission entry, having
each user record their thoughts on the application itself for a few days.
Afterwards, he compiled the results into a spreadsheet and presented the
below presentation to the class, explaining experience diaries, pros/cons of
their use, and the example walkthrough. |
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| Project Deliverables: | ||
Showtimes Presentation (pdf) |
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