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Task 1 - View a previous entry on your timeline.
Task 2 - You are traveling in Siberia. You see a beautiful view of some snow-capped mountains. Create a new entry that includes 1) a small textual description, and 2) a photo (that you will be taking).
Task 3 - You realize that your photo is blurry. Edit the post to replace the photo with a new one.
Task 4 - Share your entry online.
Observations
Version 1
Timeline:
- Users tried to accomplish some tasks (mostly sharing a post) using the "Menu" button at the bottom of the phone; however, these tasks are specific to a single post and cannot be accessed through the menu of the Timeline screen. No one tried to accomplish post-specific tasks by pressing and holding on a post, which we expected people to do, as this is a standard Android right-click analog. Perhaps this is due to the paper nature of our prototype.
- Users generally ignored the top part of the screen - likely because we chose to set our fake posts in Siberia (to reduce the necessary complexity of the map and pictures we create) and the users could not really connect the post locations to the map. We expect this not to be a problem with real users, as they will be creating posts at locations which they are familiar with.
Edit Mode:
- Users were confused as to how to add and delete items that were not text (in particular, photos).
- Users did not attempt to change the time or location of posts. This is likely because we did not include that in any of our tasks.