COSC 341 Design Challenge #4
Due Date
Submit your report in PDF on Connect by midnight on Friday 11/03.
Problem Description
Accessing data: With all kinds of data that's available (e.g., from various
social media sources, school, part-time job, parents, etc.), how might data be
organized and accessed so to improve the user experience?
What would such a system look like - will this be a phone app, desktop app,
tabletop app, or something that can project onto any surface? What features
are available? How does one browse data? What about other data operations such
as copy/delete/share/etc.?
Tasks
10/24: Conduct a card sorting activity with your group to identify the
system's functional requirements. Ensure your categories are coherent and
balanced. Once you have the semantic categories resulting from the card
sorting activity, consider which information architecture suits your system.
Next, identify 3 functional requirements as your user tasks. Determine the
mode of interaction you will use for each of these user tasks.
Week 8's lab: As the lecture went longer than anticipated, use this lab
to complete your card sorting activity.
10/26:
Design the user interaction experience with your software. Your goal is to
have a low fidelity paper prototype to use for each of the 3 user tasks. (You
can use regular line paper - it doesn't have to be fancy.) Complete your paper
prototype for the 3 user tasks and setup evaluation questionnaire.
This prototype must be ready by the beginning of Week 9's lab.
10/31: Individual activity: participate in a heuristic evaluation
exercise.
Week 9's lab: Conduct a heuristic evaluation using your paper prototype
so you get at least 5 people's feedback. Instructions on running the
evaluation during the lab will be provided by the TA.
What to Submit
By the end of the in-class sessions, you will need to submit your
report for your team consisting the following:
- The full names and student number of each of your team members
- Your wording of the problem description
- The resulting categories from the card sorting activity, including all
the detailed ideas generated under each category. Explain your choice of
information architecture.
- Images of your paper prototype - clearly identify how the 3 user tasks
are completed using your prototype. Where gestures and voice commands are
used, clearly illustrate/label those commands.
- Results of the heuristic evaluation - both a graph summarizing the
quantitative data and a list of issues found.
Grading Criteria (Out of 37)
- [2 pts] Progress checkpoint (from lab TA)
- [6 pts] Card sorting activity results and information architecture rationale
- [6 pts] Paper prototype for 3 user tasks
- [13 pts] Individually completed questionnaires from in-class
heuristic evaluation exercise (an individually calculated score)
- [8 pts] Heuristic evaluation results
- [2 pts] Team evaluation matrix (see design
challenge 1 for format, but using scores of 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.10 only)