PosterBoard - GR3 - Paper Prototyping
Manasi Vartak, Tristan Naumann, Chidube Ezeozue
Prototype Photos
Briefing
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 up in a public place like the ground floor of the Stata center.
Scenario Tasks
Task 1
You have come across this poster board at Stata Center. Do any 5 things with it.
Task 2
Add a poster on a USB drive in your possession to the poster board
Task 3
Find a poster you like, add it to your calendar and scribble on it
Observations
Task 1 - Interaction
1. When asked to interact with the poster board, the users switched between the alternative view modes (calendar, random and clustered). One of them complained that he did not know what 'clustered' view meant.
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 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.
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.
2. One of the users did not realize that the poster tag was to be selected from a drop-down.
3. One of the users felt that the 'Choose poster' instruction for opening a file browser and selecting a poster image was unclear. He was also not sure whether the file browser would take him straight to his USB drive or if he would have to browse there himself.
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.
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.
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.
Prototype Iteration
1. We changed the label for the 'clustered view' to 'by topic'
2. We changed the program flow for adding a poster from:
Click '+' -> Fill form in any order
to
Click '+' -> Get popup instruction to insert USB -> Show file browser -> Show rest of form
3. Removed QR codes