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- Has difficulty starting tasks, doesn’t know what approach to take
- Hyperfocuses on specific things. This tends to happen with hands-on work
- Low capacity for working memory: losing thread in the middle of a paragraph/long questions.
- Breaks information into parts to deal with it. Switches between topics and tasks to keep interested. Sets goals to accomplish before starting to work, and writes them down.
- Plans rigid time blocks in which to do activities
User Analysis/Groups
From our observations and interviews, we identified two broad user groups: students with ADHD, as well as their parents, friends, teachers or other interested parties.
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For students especially, teachers and counselors take an active role in helping them with ADHD, and so form a part of the user group for this problem. Their needs include being able to help the student tackle the internet browsing problem and receive feedback on how the student is doing. This is more applicable to high school students with ADHD.
From the people we interviewed: Tom Denton
Needs/Goals
3 High level goals:
Goals reflect three main stages of interacting with webpages
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