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- Male, 18 years old, Chinese Canadian, originated from Vancouver. In charge of the props group in a high school theatre production.
- Second year of college at MIT
- Highly computer literate, owns an IPhone, multiple laptops, etc. Does dev/web work. Smartphone access to the group overall is varied.
- Has worked in theatre productions in props, heading the props group dealing in a varied assortment of items, age 16-18 at the time.
- With a group, cataloged props by taking pictures of them and renaming the file names to be more descriptive
- PROS: better than having no organization at all. cameras of any sort are easily obtainable. One set of physical photos easily accounted for among multiple people, which digital photos can be shared between props members.
- CONS: not easily indexable and searchable beyond filename/photo organization, requires separate camera and transfer of image files. Adding to an photo inventory is easy, deleting is hard because you have to check for multiple copies of photos, etc.
In short, users range from:
- Collectors of physical items
- Groups managing collections or inventories
- People interested in cataloging physical locations
- People who benefit from visual aid to memory recall and recognition
Users do not include:
- People with no smartphone or computer access
- Collections of non-physical objects, such as digital items, which already have a standardized method of organization that is convenient
Tasks Analysis
Task #1: Catalogue and recall subsets of items for use (for example: cooking)
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