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- 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 (was already familiar with tasks and was not administered standard briefing)
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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