...
PosterBoard is a project that aims to increase visibility of event posters by encouraging interaction with the posters.
What you are looking at , therefore, is an electronic poster board that will be hung installed up in a public place like the ground floor of the Stata center.
...
You have come across this poster board at Stata Center. Do any Describe 5 things you can do with it. (We put in this open ended task to get a sense for whether which features of the poster board were discoverable)
Task 2
Add You have a poster on a USB drive in your possession to the . Add a poster from the USB onto the poster board
Task 3
Find a poster you like, add it to your calendar and scribble on it
...
2. Some of them gave one poster focus and tried to view previous comments on the poster and most of them attempted to add a poster and search for one too.
3. One Several user attempted to move poster thumbnails around
4. One user hoped to see a context menu appear on a poster if he long-pressed it.
5. One user couldn't figure out what the purpose of the board was and wanted a placard alongside to poster board to describe to him its functions.
Task 2 - Adding a poster
1. One of the users attempted to drag the highlight around an initially selected date to the date he wanted as opposed to clicking on the date he wanted. The users seemed to understand, however, that the date field indicated the date when the poster would be expired from the board.
...
4. One of the users felt he would be too 'lazy' to add the extra details required for automatic generation of QR codes and opted not to automatically generate them.
5. Several users said that they would not want to create a QR code because they don't use them
6. One of the users couldn't find the "Choose poster" button for selecting the poster
Task 3 - Add to calendar and scribble
1. Without a QR code, a user was unsure about how to automatically add an event to his calendar. He however noted that the purpose of the QR code (when present) was not clear and expressed an opinion that 'nobody' scans QR codes.
2. To escape from the focused poster, one of the users attempted to pinch-zoom it.add an event to calendar, a user directly added the time and venue on his phone
3. One user noted that he would be uncomfortable typing his email on the board (in order to add the event into his calendar)
4. Users tried to scribble on the poster directly when there was no "pen" symbol for writing
5. One user was completely averse to the idea of writing not the poster
Other comments
1. One of the users expressed that he would like to have seen instructions or a video that informed him of the capabilities of the board.
2. A user ranked his preference level for ways of automatically adding events to his calendar as QR code > Swiping MIT ID > Adding manually. He added that swiping his ID ranked lower than QR code because we told him that mode of interaction would simply send him an email and he did not like the extra effort of moving the event from his email to his calendar. He added, though, that he would prefer that swiping his card sent him an SMS instead of an email.
3. When users tried to exit from the detailed view of a poster, they couldn't figure out how to do it. They recommended adding an "X" to the top of the poster or allowing click outside the blown up area to escape the mode. One of the users attempted to pinch-zoom it.
Prototype Iteration
1. We changed the label for the 'clustered view' to 'by topic'
...