Suggestible - GR3

Original Prototype Pictures

Model 1:

these four pictures are sliding suggestion screens that we fed through the drawn android window

this picture shows the sliding suggestion screen set up in the android screen. When the user made scrolling motions on the screen with their fingers we pulled the long suggestion paper up or down to mimic scrolling.

Model 2 (Same pop-up menus and info pages):

Updates to Prototype Pictures

Briefing

Name: Suggestible

Platform: Android Mobile Phone

Briefing: This application will use the power of suggestion to help a person decide how to spend their free time by recommending food, books, movies and places to go.

Scenario Tasks

Task 1: You're looking for something fun to do but you just came from lunch so you don't want food. 

Task 2: You've had some childhood trauma and have an irrational fear of museums, Dr. Seuss, and ice cream.

Task 3: You're a picky eater, find somewhere to eat that has a four star rating.

Task 4: You've been running around all day, and you want to find something you can do at home.

Task 5: (Round 1): You've just given up being a vegetarian so you would like to add steak and hamburgers back into the suggestion pool.

(Round 2): You used to be a vegetarian, so you previously deleted steak and hamburgers from your suggestion pool. Add them back now.

Observations

In task 5, many users didn't understand the delete functionality and the fact that there was a list of deleted items. We reworded the task to make it clear that they had previously deleted these items, which improved the situation, but some still had problems in the second round of testing. This could be due to the fact that none of them had used Android devices, and thus were less familiar with the "Menu" hardware button.