GR1 - Task analysis

User analysis

• Internet savvy viewers
• Familiar with search terms
• Familiar with computers and the Internet
  • Gamers
  • Journalists
PersonaPersona 1: Sean is an 18-year old high school student who just got into college so , and he's playing Starcraft 2 all day. He wants to improve his skills, so he wants to watch professional Starcraft 2 players play.stream their games.
• Familiar with search terms and stream categories
• Familiar with computers and the Internet (tech-savvy user)
• Gamer

• Persona 2Persona: Jane is a 29-year old journalist for the local newspaper. She wants to keep track protests in Egypt through different webcasts for her news story.
  Non-technical viewers
  • Unfamiliar Familiar with search terms , need to click through navigation.
  • Less familiar with computers and Internet
    • Sports viewers
    • Talk show viewers
  Persona: Tina
  • and stream categories
  • Familiar with computers and the Internet (tech-savvy user)
  • Journalist
  • Persona 3: Garret is a 30 year old male who likes to watch soccer. His favorite team is the Real Madrid, but his cable package doesn't cover it, so he searches the Internet for internet streams of their games.
    • Unfamiliar with searching, but knows TV guide categories
    • Unfamiliar with computers and Internet (nontechnical user)
    • Sports fan
  • Persona 4: Tina is a 38 year old housewife. She is sitting at home, bored, waiting for the turkey to roast. There is nothing good on TV, so she wants to browse internet streams for shows that she is interested in, mainly talk shows and cooking shows.
    • Unfamiliar with searching, but knows TV guide categories
    • Unfamiliar with computers and Internet (nontechnical user)
    • HousewifePersona: Garret is a 30 year old male who likes to watch soccer. His favorite team is the Real Madrid, but his cable package doesn't cover it, so he watches internet streams for their games.

  Task analysis

  • Browse channel channels by category
    • Goal: Go to a quality channel in a interesting category of interest
    • Precondition: User has a general sense of what he wants to watch
    • Subtasks:
      • Choose the category
      • View channels under that category
      • Organize information (by popularity, relevance, etc.)
      • Read channel information
      • Select channel to watch
  • Search for channel
    • Goal: Go to a specific channel
    • Precondition: User has focused sense of what he wants to watch
    • Subtasks:
      • Search for channelkeywords
      • Organize information (by popularity, relevance, etc...)
      • Look at Review the results
      • Select channel to watchwatch 
  • Watch previously viewed channel
    • Goal: View Revisit a favored channel again
    • Precondition: Already  User has already watched a channel before
    • Subtasks:
      • Get previously viewed channels
      • Organize informationinformation (by popularity, relevance, etc.)
      • Select channel to watch

  Domain analysis

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