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We recorded detailed notes about each of our four users (who took on eight roles)---the actions they took, difficulties they encountered, and comments they made. Here, we've summarized our low-level notes and added higher-level analysis on what came out of the testing. |
Notes
User 1, a male with little background experience in medicine, started with the Doctor role. He quickly knew to tap the patient's name and "Add Medication". He stumbled on the format of the "Frequency" field, but otherwise handled the "Add Medication" dialog box well. He seemed to quickly understand that the "X" next to each row of medication removed that row. User scanned the
Analysis
User 1's troubles with finding the patient information while prescribing a new medication led us to consider the role of the patient information sidebar, and the value of context in our interface. Our eventual conclusion was that the patient information sidebar provided context which was valuable in any mode of the interface we were testing, and we decided to have the sidebar present and visible throughout all of the screens (adding consistency and context).
The first three users alike all stumbled in some way on the "Add Medication"
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Prototype documentation
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Our prototypes underwent two rounds of iteration throughout the testing period.
The first iteration that we made was to change the size, location, and context of the two dialog boxes we mocked up so as not to obscure the patient information sidebar present on the Overview screen. That is, . We made the decision to do this after User 1 struggled to find patient allergy information while prescribing a medication, and we thought having the patient information always accessible in the sidebar to be a reasonable approach.
The second round of iterations focused on the input format of the "Add Medication" form. Specifically,
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Notes from presentation
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