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Finding a Friend in your Friend List | Adding an Individual into your Friend List | Creating and Inviting Friends to an Event | Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change In Time | Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location | General Comments |
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Users did not exhibit difficulty in locating the Friend List icon, indicating that the icon provided an affordance for the user to tap on. However, users were distracted by other buttons on the action bar and search bar. This may have increased the time required by our user to make the correct selection. | distractions to user, even though they help in maintaining the consistency. users noticed that show on map has ambigous meaning. does it show persons office location or current location? and pages always return to home page which confuses the user and distorts their mental model of the system. users also think that the search should have more cue for whats it about. forexample is it for location or person or added friend. users suggested that there should be lesser steps in adding a friend, to facilitate users to add more friends in lesser time and make the UI more efficient. | Icon pictures appeared to be inconsistent with the user's the icon pictures are not consistent with uses mental model for that picture, which means . This implies that the icons are not externally conssitent consistent with other application applications and interfaces. and therefore these icons have These icons may provide affordances which do not match their functionality and are prone to description error. user Users also felt that there was too much detail to be enterened in order to create an event which demages the porpose of impromptu events. time zone, entered when creating an event. For example, the time zone and meeting end time are unessasry for the porpose of te app. and location is covered with confirmation box. and updating event functionality for slight changes should be available. unnecessary for initiating an impromptu meeting. Users also found it difficult to update events, which indicates that our application UI lacks robustness to support slight user tweaks. | Users were surprised to receive another confirmation box after sending an RSVP. They also found that the event details page lacked an affordance for editing entries. Asa result, users resorted to canceling and adding new events in order to make modifications users found it surprising that sending RSVP take user back to another confirmation box. and the event details page does not provide affordance for editing and users tried to cancel the event and recreate a new copy with the modification. | Users were not presented this task. | The system is pretty intutive but at times there are few extra clicks, and there exists ambiguity about functionality of some features such as back/close search bars etc. |
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Finding a Friend in your Friend List | Adding an Individual into your Friend List | Creating and Inviting Friends to a Closed Event (With Application Suggesting Locations) | Responding to an Invitation by Proposing a Change in Location |
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Users no longer had problems identifying the top row of buttons as buttons they should be tapping on to launch sub-menus, indicating that they were providing better affordances as buttons. Users also were drawn to the search bar in order to identify if a friend was currently present in the Friend List. The idea that the search bar should be used to look for someone, and not simply check the Friend List indicated that the users had a different conceptual model as to how the system should be used. Some wanted the menu icons to perhaps have text, or better information scent, to make them confident that they were going into the right menu. The icons used were generally recognized as "Friends", "Calendar" and "Conversation", indicating that there was some external consistency in their usage. As a result, most users learnt by doing/exploring. | Most users had no difficulty identifying the "plus"-icon being the button that had to be used in order to begin adding a new friend. Their familiarity with the flow and usage of the menu indicated good in ternal internal and external consistency. | While some users made use of the suggested locations for the meetings, some preferred to specify their own locations, and were unsure of whether the system would support their actions, indicating a lack of affordance, and confusing the user. | Users found the instructions on the menu useful in accomplishing their tasks, though they did spend time reading it. We suspect that expert users will not experience the same lack of efficiency. Some were unsure about the behavior that would occur in order to propose a change to the event location, but were assured when they found the word "Propose" used. The "Revert Change" button being greyed out confused some users, and one user commented that changing it to "Undo" might be clearer, indicating a slight lack in external consistency, because we were not speaking the user's language. |
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