Homework 3: User Study of Paper Prototype
Homework 3: Assigned: Sep 12, Due: Sep 19
Using the paper prototype you created in Homework 2, you are now going to run
a user test of that prototype with one or more users, revise the paper prototype
to try to fix any problems found, and then run one or more additional users.
PART A: The first part of this assignment is to perform a user study
of the prototype you created for homework 2. You should put your paper prototype
in front of at least one and preferably more than one user. This should be a
different user than you used for your CI in homework 1, and this person should
also be a novice at your appliance. As with the CI, you might want to videotape your sessions. The university has some
video-cameras that it loans to students, but you have to plan ahead and get a
CFA lending card. Here are the details:
http://www.cmu.edu/computing/clusters/equip_lending.html. Let me know if you
find other ways to borrow cameras.
- The first deliverable for PART A is the script that you use to
direct the users on what to do. If it is the same as previous assignments,
please mention this, but go ahead and include it again, so we have
everything in one place, and
- The second deliverable for PART A is a set of User Action Reports (UARs)
describing the results of the user test or tests. You can find the
UAR Templates here.
PART B: Next, you will modify your paper prototype from homework 2 to
try to fix the problems you observed in your user study.
- The deliverables for PART B is a copy of your new paper prototype.
Again, make a copy of this version and keep the original for use in PART C.
- Also turn in a summary of what you changed. This should be a short
description.
PART C: Next, you will do another user study with a different user of
your revised prototype. Again, this is a different person, also a novice (so you
have at least 3 people you have used so far). You should videotape this one too.
- Hopefully, your script has not changed from PART A, but if you need to
change the script, then the first deliverable for PART C is the new
script. If the script is the same, then just say "same script".
- The second deliverable for PART A is a set of User Action Reports (UARs)
describing the results of the second user test(s).
- Finally, describe what you would change in your prototype as a
result of this test, but you do not have to revise your paper prototype.
Instead, you will be making a Visual Basic implementation of your revised
design as part of Homework 4.