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We started with the "schedule-specific constraint solver" design from GR2.
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Observations on First Iteration
User 1
- Add button pressed before typing in activity
- Clicked plan before adding constraints. It was unclear to him that he needed to add constraints before planning.
- On the final schedule page, he wanted to click on an activity to edit constraints
- Constraints = property of activity; (find a better word for constraints)
- When he pressed the constraints button, he expected ALL constraints to appear.
- Unsure which constraint to change in the morning. He tried to change the breakfast constraint instead of the start time constraint
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- Suggested Destinations have constraints such as "Hours of Operations", "Duration of Visit" pre-populated in their fields
- Activities can be directly dragged onto the schedule to allow users to explicitly define when they want to do it
- Add Constraints page only takes up half the screen so that the user can still see the schedule
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Observations on Second Iteration
User 4
- He asked what hotel he is at
- Starts at map, he tries to zoom out and pan around
- He looks for a hotel first
- He completely ignores eating breakfast
- He first autocalcs, then moves the events around
- He succesfully pulls the museum event to increase the amount of time spent there
- After Oversleeping: He , he doesn't change the order, but just squishes events
- Comments:
- He would want to design the initial plan on his PC
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- She was confused about the ability to add stuff to the schedule. She She tried just clicking on it.
- It was unclear what activities were
- She wanted to type an event for "wake up" and it doesn't make sens for sense for that to open or close
- When she got to schedule, she pressed "wake up" and wanted to specify a point in time and fudged that by making it last a minute
- She tried to specify a time that that happens by specifying "happens between"
- After oversleeping:
- Went to change the "happens between" attributes of an even
- Comments: overall confusion
- When she clicked on the schedule she wanted to add an event directly...like google calendar.
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- Wanted to schedule before adding activity set wake time
- Planned everything in head
- What Confused about what the map shows
- Wants to change time of event of when dome is open
- Does know to add lunch herself
- Thinks that the list of events is in the order she'll do them in
- Wanted to see what autocalc did after filling in all the events
- After Oversleeping:
- Dragged events down
- Didn't know what autocalc did
- Was confused about schedule vs. list of activities.