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We tested our interface on three users. Our two original user classes were students and parents who were applying to colleges and planning to visit those schools. The three users tested were broadly representative of those user classes. The users in the evaluation were personal contacts of our team members (either either family or friends).
- MIT undergraduate who has several siblings currently looking at colleges
- Mother of three children with one child currently looking at and visiting colleges and two children who have already completed the college search process
- Mother of two children who have already completed the college search process
Briefing
Purpose:
- Parents often plan trips for their high school age children to visit colleges, but there are a lot of challenges along the way that we are trying to alleviate.
- Find good fit colleges in a certain geographic area
- Balance multiple campus tours/info session times in one easy place
Tasks:
- A few tasks as if you were a college junior planning visits to schools
Disclaimers:
- We’re not testing you, we’re testing the interface, feel free to ask questions, but also try to explore and see what happens
Conclusion:
- Do you have any questions? If I can’t answer them now because it will interfere with the test I will definitely answer all unanswered questions at the end.
Tasks
Our users were given the same tasks that had been given to those testing our paper prototype. Namely:
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